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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/

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Plot twist:

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

[–] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

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

[–] specialseaweed@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 year ago

I don’t like this post.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 year ago

Why you gotta do this to me

[–] blarth@thelemmy.club 19 points 1 year ago

I haven’t felt this targeted in some time.

[–] pezhore@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] pezhore@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] UnpledgedCatnapTipper@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] pezhore@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] needanke@feddit.org 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

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

https://stronk.bond/index.html

[–] xavier666@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago

Delete this. Now.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 11 points 1 year ago

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

[–] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

$1/month isn't bad though.

[–] Cerothen@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Just 3.3 cents per day seems pretty reasonable

[–] crawancon@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

damn this one headshotted me. ouch

I said hey man nice shot.

[–] xan@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] xan@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

New button: new dream to maybe kill off next year

[–] Unbecredible@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year 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

[–] Roopappy@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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

[–] Xylight@lemdro.id 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 2 points 1 year ago

/me looks at his lemmy instance domain

[–] Toribor@corndog.social 4 points 1 year 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.

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Brutal. Savage. Rekt.