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Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it's haunted

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Re: Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it's haunted

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Post by bruce511 »

richardw wrote: post #23
jsheard wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please don't give Google ideas for more ways they can have an algorithm arbitrarily screw you over with no recourse, they're listening.

Well, current approach guarantees you’re getting screwed over. Any improvement is beneficial unless it blocks a better approach?

You're looking at this from the perspective of a haunted domain owner. And from that perspective your idea is fine.

A good technique to evaluate ideas though is to try and view it from different perspectives.

In this case from the owner of a non-haunted domain. Can you see any potential problem with your idea when viewed from that perspective?

Now, if there are potential problems, consider the relative sizes of the two groups. Do the benefits to one outweigh harm to the other?

This technique can be used every day with pretty much any idea.

Re: Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it's haunted

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Post by moribunda »

Basic SEO stuff, you have marketplaces that check history, you have domain search engines aggregating data from multiple sources - not only ahrefs.

Checking web archive is a basic operation to test if site was hosting anything fishy - not only pirated stuff or porn - often websites has been hacked and changed into link farms or simply were bought on aftermarket simply to use it's SEO value to pass the strength to other domains.

Anyways good point regarding email filters.

Re: Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it's haunted

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Post by edm0nd »

lefstathiou wrote: post #18

This happened to me and I found this tool super helpful to get my site unblocked: https://dnsblacklist.org/ I purchased a valuable premium domain to host a personal art collection (of anime cels). For some bizarre reason, the site was inaccessible from my work computer and it was de-listed from Google even if I typed the url itself into search. I hired a square space specialist to figure out why, to no avail. I then…

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Re: Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it's haunted

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Post by rjbwork »

edm0nd wrote: post #34
lefstathiou wrote: post #18

This happened to me and I found this tool super helpful to get my site unblocked: https://dnsblacklist.org/ I purchased a valuable premium domain to host a personal art collection (of anime cels). For some bizarre reason, the site was inaccessible from my work computer and it was de-listed from Google even if I typed the url itself into search. I hired a square space specialist to figure out why, to no avail. I then…

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Turns out humans are not soulless automatons and like to do favours for the people they work with and are friendly with from time to time.

Re: Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it's haunted

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Post by getlawgdon »

edm0nd wrote: post #34
lefstathiou wrote: post #18

This happened to me and I found this tool super helpful to get my site unblocked: https://dnsblacklist.org/ I purchased a valuable premium domain to host a personal art collection (of anime cels). For some bizarre reason, the site was inaccessible from my work computer and it was de-listed from Google even if I typed the url itself into search. I hired a square space specialist to figure out why, to no avail. I then…

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Ooooor, it could be, like, a person helping another person out, or something like that, you know?

Re: Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it's haunted

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Post by 0xFACEFEED »

edm0nd wrote: post #34
lefstathiou wrote: post #18

This happened to me and I found this tool super helpful to get my site unblocked: https://dnsblacklist.org/ I purchased a valuable premium domain to host a personal art collection (of anime cels). For some bizarre reason, the site was inaccessible from my work computer and it was de-listed from Google even if I typed the url itself into search. I hired a square space specialist to figure out why, to no avail. I then…

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> not what work resources are for

Employees are not robots. They are human beings. Sometimes human beings have human problems that need the assistance of other humans. This makes humans happier and more productive.

It's depressing to think that there are people who actually believe that optimal use of work resources is even worth calling out as an issue. In 2024.

Re: Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it's haunted

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Post by eru »

edm0nd wrote: post #34
lefstathiou wrote: post #18

This happened to me and I found this tool super helpful to get my site unblocked: https://dnsblacklist.org/ I purchased a valuable premium domain to host a personal art collection (of anime cels). For some bizarre reason, the site was inaccessible from my work computer and it was de-listed from Google even if I typed the url itself into search. I hired a square space specialist to figure out why, to no avail. I then…

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If you want your employees able to deal with emergencies, you can't run them at 100% capacity all the time. You need some slack, so you have capacity when shit hits the fan.

Using a small amount of that slack to keep another employee happy can be a good investment. In addition, it's good for someone like the CISO to poke around the innards of your network (etc) configs from time to time, just to stay up to date with what's going on in the company and to perhaps flag anything that smells suspicious.

You can do these kinds of exploration exercises completely free form, or you can take a little task like 'figure out exactly why this specific site is blocked' as a token of motivation.

I agree that all of this mostly only makes sense, if it doesn't take too much time.

Though if this specific task would take a lot of time, that would also indicate that either the CISO needs to upskill, or the network config is too complicated. In either case, that would be a valuable insight.

Re: Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it's haunted

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Post by bryant »

edm0nd wrote: post #34
lefstathiou wrote: post #18

This happened to me and I found this tool super helpful to get my site unblocked: https://dnsblacklist.org/ I purchased a valuable premium domain to host a personal art collection (of anime cels). For some bizarre reason, the site was inaccessible from my work computer and it was de-listed from Google even if I typed the url itself into search. I hired a square space specialist to figure out why, to no avail. I then…

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> Wait, so you begged your CISO to figure out why your work internet ecosystem was blocking your personal project website from work computers? Man that sounds like a horrible waste of the CISOs time and not what work resources are for.

Sticking to your strict productivity line of thought, this kind of ask would:

1) be a great small teaching task for an intern, and

2) build goodwill elsewhere in a company, something good CISOs won't pass up an opportunity to do when the cost is relatively cheap.

But it's also likely that the CISO just wanted to help.

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