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Re: Gift HN: Anybody want a subdomain of ww.com?

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I'm sorry if this is a total dumbass question: Why would anyone want this? They would have to trust jacquesm (as well intentioned as he may be) to continue to have awesome intentions forever... and if he/she ever sold the domain, everyone who has setup a subdomain would probably loose all the links they might have built to it. The only reason I could potentially see this being useful is as a url shortcut... but still…

No question is dumbass. Most of the concerns you've got were addressed in the text above I believe. As for me having 'good intentions' or not, time will be the judge of that, but let's just say that I spent a lot of time trying to be useful to HN and it would be a really dumb move to piss of a large portion of what has slowly become my network. That said I can't offer guarantees hence the caveat. Second, I think that…

Are you offering this because you will indirectly benefit from the PageRank from subdomains and presumably most HN'ers will have active sites that will experience good PageRank?

Re: Gift HN: Anybody want a subdomain of ww.com?

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Jacques, thanks so much for your generosity. Would it be possible to have matt.ww.com -> http://users.crhc.illinois.edu/johnso87/ ? Similar circumstances to BoppreH, if I'm reading correctly. matt.ww.com exists, but doesn't look particularly current.

If not, I don't currently have a public IP that I own. Anyone know the cheapest way to get one, other than a static IP from your ISP (I can't get one because mine doesn't give them out)? I'm imagining a small Linode instance or something of that nature, but I'm pretty green. Suggestions welcome. I could also snag a domain name and figure this all out later.

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