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

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Post by firebones »

jacquesm wrote: post #276
firebones wrote: post #274

So close to 20, but if you're generous and round up, and it's available: mmu.ww.com --> mememeup.com

That one was in use but abandoned (most short ones appear to be), so you're welcome to it.

Thanks. And thanks for your generosity. I will remember this and hope to be in a position to give back to the community in a similar fashion some day.

Question: are you implementing this in such a way that you can measure redirects? Because that would seem to be a great way to gauge and sample the relative popularity of a wide variety of very interesting sites--excellent business intelligence.

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

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Post by jacquesm »

firebones wrote: post #282
jacquesm wrote: post #276

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That one was in use but abandoned (most short ones appear to be), so you're welcome to it.

Thanks. And thanks for your generosity. I will remember this and hope to be in a position to give back to the community in a similar fashion some day. Question: are you implementing this in such a way that you can measure redirects? Because that would seem to be a great way to gauge and sample the relative popularity of a wide variety of very interesting sites--excellent business intelligence.

It started off as just two domains, I'm actually a bit overwhelmed by the response, but that's nice as well.

For now what will happen is that I will set up DNS entries for all the A records and CNAMES, I don't feel like spying on anybodies traffic.

The two people that have asked for redirects to paths I'll have to handle in a different way, so I will have to make an exception for those two. The temptation to handle everybody with a db table in ww.com is definitely there but I think that it is better to handle things at the DNS level.

More reliable, better privacy.

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

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Post by fharper1961 »

jacquesm wrote: post #94
jackowayed wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh, so things that are essentially squatted are fair game? I don't see any way to tell if one's been in recent use, but I'll take dan.ww.com -> danieljackoway.com if possible.

Ok, you've got dan.ww.com.

Thank's so much for your generosity Jacques!

I'd like frank.ww.com CNAME theharpers.biz. If frank isn't good then frankh or fharper.

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

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Post by netdog »

jacquesm wrote: post #275
netdog wrote: post #268

The stated offer is for a subdomain of ww.com. but all the transactions here appear to be just for A or CNAME records in the ww.com. zone. Are you offering a subdomain with delegated DNS? If so, I would be interested.

hm That's an interesting one, I've never actually set that up and it goes beyond the scope of where I can still easily see what's going on, so I think I should not do that. Any specific reasons why you would want this ?

I read

> ... if you want a subdomain of ww.com...

and naturally understood "subdomain" to mean "subdomain".

Perhaps what you meant to write was

"... if you want a hostname in ww.com..."

ww.com is a nice 2nd level domain. A 3rd level domain zyx.ww.com would be pretty nice too, in which one could create several hostnames, such as blog.zyx.ww.com, hg.zyx.ww.com, etc.

Yes, if you delegated the DNS for the subdomain, it would not be as easy for you to see what hostnames are in that subdomain.

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