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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 33 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Plot twist:

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

[–] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 6 days 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 5 days ago

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

[–] specialseaweed@sh.itjust.works 28 points 6 days ago

I don’t like this post.

[–] xavier666@lemm.ee 20 points 5 days ago

Delete this. Now.

[–] blarth@thelemmy.club 20 points 5 days ago

I haven’t felt this targeted in some time.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 23 points 6 days ago

Why you gotta do this to me

[–] pezhore@lemmy.ml 22 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] pezhore@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 days 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 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

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

[–] pezhore@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 days ago

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

[–] needanke@feddit.org 1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 1 points 5 days ago

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

https://stronk.bond/index.html

[–] TomBombadil@hexbear.net 16 points 6 days ago
[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 14 points 6 days ago

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

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

[–] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

$1/month isn't bad though.

[–] Cerothen@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 days ago

Just 3.3 cents per day seems pretty reasonable

[–] xan@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] xan@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 days ago

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

[–] Toribor@corndog.social 4 points 5 days 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.

[–] crawancon@lemm.ee 8 points 6 days ago

damn this one headshotted me. ouch

I said hey man nice shot.

[–] Unbecredible@lemm.ee 5 points 5 days 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

[–] JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee 6 points 6 days ago

New button: new dream to maybe kill off next year

[–] Xylight@lemdro.id 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 2 points 5 days ago

/me looks at his lemmy instance domain

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago

Brutal. Savage. Rekt.