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Re: Strange domain names that developers bought

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One night a few months ago, after two large beers I imagined up a domain name that was SO PERFECT that I HAD TO BUY IT and swore that this time, unlike all the others, I was TOTALLY GOING TO DO SOMETHING WITH IT. The next morning, looking for an excuse to not get out of bed, I actually followed through: https://haikupotamus.com/

Oh wow this is great I have always wanted to Learn to write haikus

Re: Strange domain names that developers bought

#73

I have https://lbjfacts.com , which is a site full of.. definitely real facts about Lyndon B Johnson. I was just really bored one day, and it started as an inside joke that just kind of kept going.

I got a Cease & Desist from Chuck Norris back in the iPhoneOS 2 era for having a jokes app that listed Chuck Norris facts (among other categories of jokes). They also had Apple take my app down. I got it back up by listing Charles Gnorris facts instead.

Re: Strange domain names that developers bought

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Huh, that’s the first time I’ve heard of a squatted .au domain in quite some years. For the most part people don’t try it because it’s against auDA rules. Even apart from the squatting rules, this particular registration is liable to cancelling because it doesn’t meet the eligibility criteria even before the even stricter rules that came in in April (though those don’t apply to this particular domain until they next…

There are many that are squatted, but there is little active enforcement. I just entered 3 random domains to test them and two were squatted. http://ddp.com.au http://pbm.com.au

Years ago it was a very common tactic to buy up any three-letter domains you could get and find targets to pitch them to. I think the going rate was about $800. People would grab them off the drop list and have a pretty decent strike rate. In the case of PJG there were things like P* J* Graphics or P* J* Group.

Re: Strange domain names that developers bought

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There's a popular web comic called questionable content where a running gag of the author is to buy bizarre offensive domain names for his comic: questionablecontent.net boner.moe fart.computer dildo.pizza ass.golf mydickandballs.com dong.zone butt.church sexual.fish unionrobotics.net 69.bingo poop.rodeo boners.lol piss.farm swole.dog burgerking.sex powerful.dog cum.energy qc.bike rectal.dentist questionablecontent.h…

There's an Italian podcast, Power Pizza, which also does a similar thing, but the domains have a silly/surreal vibe rather than an offensive one. Their website is called unpodcastveramentebellissimoguardaveloconsiglioproprio.com ("A really beautiful podcast, look, I warmly recommend it").

Other examples:

cheschifoesserenudo.online: "Being naked sucks", for merchandise such as T-Shirts, etc. (now offline)

datecideisoldi.com: "Give us money", their Patreon

nondatecideisoldi.com: "Don't give us money", same as above

Re: Strange domain names that developers bought

#80
I've bought a lot of silly ones over the years. When 'enterprises' TLD opened, I couldn't believe that criminal.enterprises wasn't taken yet, so I snagged it. Although I found myself reluctant to actually use it on a website (could be nice for a game though), I did end up redirecting it to a certain ex-president's organization, but only a few hundred people ever noticed.
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