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

#292

Any chance I could get box.ww.com -> inthatbox.com? Looks like maybe it was in use at one time, but I couldn't tell if it still is. This is great and extremely generous, thank you so much (whether or not it's available)!

Yes, that's fine. And you're welcome :)

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

#293

How about scotty.ww.com -> www.scottyallen.com? Looks like scotty.ww.com is probably abandoned. Thanks - it's cool that you're doing this.

It is, that was last active in '03, so you're welcome to have it.

Awesome, thanks!

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 w…

My problem is not you specifically, my problem is some joker that would abuse this to set up a gazillion spam hosts under ww.com as a tld and do un-repairable harm before I would clue in to it.

It's already a bit of a risk as it is (hence the 20 karma cap, I'm not too strict in looking at that if an account wasn't made 20 minutes ago), but I don't want to get burned.

I agree that the formal interpretation of 'subdomain' is one with delegation, but when someone says they put their usernames on 'subdomains' it is commonly understood to be a 3rd level host name, and not one with full delegation.

You could have surmised that from the bit that asks for 'the ip to go with it' and not for 'the ips of the name servers to go with it'.

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

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post #125

Dank vriend, goede karma aan u! I'd like 'tst.ww.com' but I can't tell if it's free (seems parked/squatted, but maybe not). My domain is www.tstw.co.uk - don't know my dns off hand but can find it if needed & will email you this post.

It was in use until 2004, so that's yours now.

Thanks!
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