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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 month 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 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Plot twist:

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month 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 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago

I don’t like this post.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

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

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month 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 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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

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

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

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

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

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

https://stronk.bond/index.html

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

Delete this. Now.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

I haven’t felt this targeted in some time.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

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

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

$1/month isn't bad though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Just 3.3 cents per day seems pretty reasonable

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

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

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

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

damn this one headshotted me. ouch

I said hey man nice shot.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

New button: new dream to maybe kill off next year

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month 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 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

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

/me looks at his lemmy instance domain

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month 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 1 month ago

Brutal. Savage. Rekt.