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[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 months ago

Altneratively: You're spending that $12 to register a well known corporate site that just changed domains and their old domain is up for sale.

You buy the old domain, throw up a site that looks like the old site, and now you have hundreds of thousands of people using your site as though it was the real one and any information they put in the site is yours.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/11/watchtowr_black_hat_whois/

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Plot twist:

Private equity buys your registrar and jacks up the renewal price 5x.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Double-twist-back: it's not under a special TLD, so you can transfer it to another registrar.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

It's too close to expiration for a transfer. 😔 givemoney.gif

[–] specialseaweed 28 points 2 months ago

I don’t like this post.

[–] ayyy 24 points 2 months ago

Why you gotta do this to me

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You can take stronk.bond from my cold dead hands.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Honestly even if I did I'd preserve the page as is, beautiful

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's literally all I wanted to do when I saw the .bond TLD came up for registration.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Oddly it doesn't load in Firefox but works fine in Chrome. Firefox shows this error:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Ah, I wonder if it's something with the Wasabi S3 hosting. I'll check into it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Whats on there? I just get an access denied message.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

You can click accept. I think they didn't force redirect to https

https://stronk.bond/index.html

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

Delete this. Now.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

I haven’t felt this targeted in some time.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

If you don't, you'll pay a lot more to get it back if you ever want to

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

$1/month isn't bad though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Just 3.3 cents per day seems pretty reasonable

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

damn this one headshotted me. ouch

I said hey man nice shot.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I finally added at least something to puter.group. It had almost been a year.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

(OH MY GOD, SO MANY MORE. This must be the ADHD thing...)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

New button: new dream to maybe kill off next year

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

There's no reason to think that I'm no longer chasing my dream, that I'm being dragged by it is there? - Marc Maron

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Can someone please validate my decision to pay $23 a year for this dumb corndog.social domain just so I had something fun for my Lemmy instance.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Buying a nice domain and it actually being used is such a good feeling

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

/me looks at his lemmy instance domain

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Never give up the domain. I've let several go that I wish I still had. They only get more valuable, like real estate.

RIP stinkfist.org

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Brutal. Savage. Rekt.