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Re: Strange domain names that developers bought

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post #39

I brought geethub.com (a misspelling of Github.com) and have setup a redirect to Github from it. :) https://geethub.com/

Some trolls also do this for political reasons. https://antifa.com used to redirect to Biden’s website, as if he owned Antifa, but this is a troll. https://vamostovictory.com redirects to a website of Trump flailing his arms. Many others redirect to both sides of the aisle as political jokes.

Re: Strange domain names that developers bought

#52
post #24

some time during a long night of talking about dumb shit with friends, I became the proud owner of http://thedarkweb.online . some day… some day I will figure out the right joke for that page.

Apart from acting as a honeypot for dumb people who want to buy drugs on thedarkweb.online?

Re: Strange domain names that developers bought

#53

> In Warhammer 40K, the Orks faction have a big robot called a Stompa, but in French it gets translated as ‘Krabouillator’ for some reason. The Stompa looks nothing like a crab, so nobody remembers why it got translated to ‘Krabouillator.’ Stompa is another way to spell stomper. krabouillator would have been obvious to any French speaking person as meaning ecrabouilleur, or one that stomp. A far cry from crab (or cra…

Various levels of efforts are made but non-English joke/punny domains rarely are taken. I can readily make pun URLs like https://nanka.enpitsu[.]de/kaite ("draw/something.withpencil") or https://kabeni.kaite[.]moe ("drawing.onawall.isdrawing") or http://okuruma[.]de/irashita ("visiting/by.car") for example. That "some reason" are probably often harder than native language speakers think and I guess domain businesses hasn't tapped enough of regional markets either.

Re: Strange domain names that developers bought

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Back in university, some students (or was it only one?) put lots of effort into making a thing of the "Rautavistic University of Eschweilerhof". At that time, Eschweilerhof in Germany had only a population of 70 (now, its more like 71) and definitely had nothing that resembled a physical university. However, they wanted to come as close as possible to a real university and obviously having a web page was part of it: http://www.uni-eschweilerhof.de/ (in German).

I have just visited this URL for the first time in 20 years and it's gorgeous.

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