The domain could also have been used to run spam email campaigns, meaning that it is blacklisted by email servers
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
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
I faced the same issue with one of my project. But, as i don't know anybody at Facebook, I left the domain and buy a new one.
So much of the world is still based on who you know. This is a bug in our society I would really, really like to see fixed in my lifetime.
Reframe:
It's not that the smooth path you can get via nepotism is the base way things work which people who don't "know a guy" are excluded from. Rather, everything is falling apart and shitty, and if you're lucky, you occasionally get to circumvent that shittyness.
Re: Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it's haunted
#73> Ideally, search engine algorithms would give new domain owners a fresh start. Sadly, I think this would be instantly gamed by abusers. They would release the domain name and attempt to register as a new owner or start repeatedly doing handoffs. It's difficult to tell who the owner is changing between and whether or not the new one is a better actor than the former.
Require a deposit then, say 1000$, that is to be refunded after a year of probationary period. You get caught being a scammer/spammer, you lose the deposit.
The deposit would be either too high for normal people to pay, or too low to matter to bad actors
Re: Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it's haunted
#74> Ideally, search engine algorithms would give new domain owners a fresh start. Sadly, I think this would be instantly gamed by abusers. They would release the domain name and attempt to register as a new owner or start repeatedly doing handoffs. It's difficult to tell who the owner is changing between and whether or not the new one is a better actor than the former.
A tweak to that could be along the lines of "if the DNS lookup of the domain responds with NXDOMAIN for more than x days, give it a fresh start".
I'm not up to date with SEO so unsure whether Google would (or is able to) reset the domain's backlink profile, I'd guess it would be possible. A lot of the value of using expired domains is for backlinks (or at least was)
Re: Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it's haunted
#75Especially on an .io TLD; it's haunted by the lovely US taking advantage of Chargossian exploitation.
Re: Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it's haunted
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
I faced the same issue with one of my project. But, as i don't know anybody at Facebook, I left the domain and buy a new one.
So much of the world is still based on who you know. This is a bug in our society I would really, really like to see fixed in my lifetime.
I would really like to see it fixed too, especially as regards these faceless behemoths which nevertheless worm themselves into dictating important parts of real peoples' real lives with absolute authority and no recourse
Re: Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it's haunted
#77> Ideally, search engine algorithms would give new domain owners a fresh start. Sadly, I think this would be instantly gamed by abusers. They would release the domain name and attempt to register as a new owner or start repeatedly doing handoffs. It's difficult to tell who the owner is changing between and whether or not the new one is a better actor than the former.
Google product manager interview question - Write some code with an LLM tool that leverages a LLM to determine if the new owner of a domain is doing (a) same dodgy thing as prior owner that got flagged (b) different dodgy thing as prior owner but should be flagged (c) something completely innocuous (d) needs further review.
Why would they care?
Re: Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it's haunted
#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
So much of the world is still based on who you know. This is a bug in our society I would really, really like to see fixed in my lifetime.
Reframe: It's not that the smooth path you can get via nepotism is the base way things work which people who don't "know a guy" are excluded from. Rather, everything is falling apart and shitty, and if you're lucky, you occasionally get to circumvent that shittyness.
Meritocracy is great and all, but there's a gap between having merit and others seeing the merit.
I don't believe that human society can, practically, get particularly close to the ideal. I question the choice of fatty meat as a substrate for minds.
For my money, I'd suggest that merit will get you further today than in the days of letters of recommendation, but that failures of meritocracy are more visible.
Re: Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it's haunted
#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
So much of the world is still based on who you know. This is a bug in our society I would really, really like to see fixed in my lifetime.
I think with AI it is going to become the opposite. You only trust who you know in real life and ignore everything else.
Huh? Weird. I only trust the AI and ignore everyone in real life life. (/s for the humor impaired)
Re: Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it's haunted
#80This 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…
I'd be somewhat interested in seeing the cels. :)
https://www.neotokyo.com
I have a +100 cel backlog that I need to catalog and photograph. Was planning to do it this holiday season so check back in.