Strange domain names that developers bought(stackoverflow.blog) |
Strange domain names that developers bought(stackoverflow.blog) |
For a few drunken minutes at least.
And I registered recoveredlover.com to forward e-mail to my friends who'd already had Covid, back when they were the only people who could safely socialize.
Nothing but a single photo of a dude with a bag of beans on his head.
As with many other things, I never got around to making it...
edited to add: Since most of my development work seems to be a derivative of some earlier project, it seemed apt
I'll probably get some real mileage out of it at some point.
Editor, Atlas Shrugged, please.
Shows my friend Ross needs to watch, but stubbornly hasn't.
incompetent.management
fraudulent.marketing
A few...
fscking.com whoreanddecore.com inyourbumbum.com imgoingtofu*kyourmom.com limhoe.com limhos.net eatoutatyourmom.com
and
I was just really bored one day, and it started as an inside joke that just kind of kept going.
Nice.
They were of the form:
notmyrealemailaddress.com thisistotallyfake.com inevercheckthisaccount.com
But joke's on me, because then there would be this long, drawn-out process of "How do you spell that? Are there hyphens between the words? Did you say 't' as in 'toy' or 'b' as in 'boy'? Now let me read that back to you."
I wanted a unique username that would let people find me on google and social media but whatever I entered, it was already taken so being frustrated - I typed in searchableguy and it was available.
https://big-fat-honking-weenies.blogspot.com/
[UPDATE] Hah! The domain is available again!
Type "illuminati" backwards, and add a ".com" :)
It's formatted like <first name>.<last name>. I love it.
But I got an offer I didn’t want to refuse and sold it…
We had an event where DHH and a bunch of other cool people came out to support us.
As the MCs, we pretended to be the founders of a new company that was going to take on Twitter and Kevin Rose's new Pownce. We had slides between each presentation with awful marketing buzzwords and tried to appear as clueless as possible. We would ask people to quiet down and say things like "Listen, we paid a lot of money for this sponsorship..."
Omitting vowels was all the rage. We called our company:
Sqkwzr.com
(Can you believe that domain was free?)
The company took the concept of Twitter to a whole new level, where you could "tweet" out your farts and things like that automatically. We had a slide with each egress point labeled with hex addresses like 0xa55.
The tagline in the slides was: "every orifice has a story to tell."
Mark Shuttleworth (Ubuntu founder) was at OSCON that year and I approached him to see if he would attend and pretend he was an investor. I still have the email where he declined.
I just found it amusing that you could interpret this in more than one way.
You can create your own gTLD as long as you follow the rules:
I now own slashignore.it for our break through, any year now...
• get.space says it’s $5,000 (actually NZD7,102.40 and I can’t find a currency switch) to register, and the same to renew.
• Namecheap says it’s $3,250 to register, and makes no comment on renewal.
• GoDaddy says it’s $3,300 to register (marked down from $6,500) and $6,500 to renew.
• Google Domains says it’s $5,400 per year. (But until I explicitly asked for USD it was telling me NZD6250, which is about USD4400, a rather significant difference.)
A couple of other registrars that I tried didn’t cope with vs.space because they seem to think it’s invalid and a third character is required: hover.com just shows search results with no message to explain why it ignored the exact match vs.space, and 101domain.com tells you it’s too short to be valid.
I used that trick when .dev was launched and snagged a-z.dev for all my future domain name needs
I think it’s a considerably shittier to charge a premium for <6-letter-dictionary-word>.dev however.
some day… some day I will figure out the right joke for that page.
I'm incredibly jealous
*: Although I was more of a di.fm Trance listener back then, another Trance channel, Afterhours.fm, still uses choon.in today as their shortcut domain.
Weird, because there is no “.gas” TLD.
originally bought it to host a error reporting platform back in 2014 or something, but never finished the project, as is tradition.
> We had an event where DHH and a bunch of other cool people came out to support us.
> We had an event where DHH and a bunch of other cool people came out to support us.
I thought it was good at the time, i.e. "Mate, for your information...", e.g. "m8.fyi/something". However... it seems that many people don't recognise "m8.fyi/item" as a URL!
I'm British - "mate" is used often but it doesn't sound as friendly as when Aussies use it!
Stompa is another way to spell stomper. krabouillator would have been obvious to any French speaking person as meaning ecrabouilleur, or one that stomp. A far cry from crab (or crabe if you are a French speaker).
Weird the author didn't try to even investigate that.
So: To stomp > stompa and Écrabouiller -> Krabouillator.
https://xn--ujdaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...
https://mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...
http://mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...
Why? They're the widest domains you can get within the character limits. Good for testing UI for bad wrapping with long data. Hacker News handles it pretty well.
I let it expire.
I never got around to launching the site, but it did lead to the most horrifying auto-generated by a domain squatter email that I think anyone has ever received.
I have just visited this URL for the first time in 20 years and it's gorgeous.
I did manage to get a domain cancelled the other week actually - renewed to an entity that had ceased renewing their ABN/ACN. Awkward process with the registrar though.
I just entered 3 random domains to test them and two were squatted.
Somewhen in the mid-2000s, I decided to add another domain to my account: "sonneausdemarsch.de" (sunshine out of the arse.de). Unluckily, they noticed I'm no longer on their paylist and they cancelled the subscription completely.
So long, my "lifetime" account :(
This is also how I lost marienkinder.de (marienkinder being a technophobic christian cult with the most hilarious pamphlet brochures you can imagine.
Ah, those were the times :D
I still have: mussesfüralleseinedomaingeben.de
https://web.archive.org/web/20150801140916/http://hairwaytos...
— Richard Stallman, 1986 https://www.gnu.org/gnu/byte-interview
As a tiny Pandemic project, I bought the domain and resurrected the site (from the Internet Archive's copy) for the nostalgia.
questionablecontent.net
boner.moe
fart.computer
dildo.pizza
ass.golf
mydickandballs.com
dong.zone
butt.church
sexual.fish
unionrobotics.net
69.bingo
poop.rodeo
boners.lol
piss.farm
swole.dog
burgerking.sex
powerful.dog
cum.energy
qc.bike
rectal.dentist
questionablecontent.horse
Other examples:
cheschifoesserenudo.online: "Being naked sucks", for merchandise such as T-Shirts, etc. (now offline)
datecideisoldi.com: "Give us money", their Patreon
nondatecideisoldi.com: "Don't give us money", same as above
chewbac.ca
dromiceiomim.us
Hmm - Schlock Mercenary is supposed to be launching a new series too...
I can find no mention of this anywhere.
One of these things is not like the other....
https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3481
The exact domain name is visible here:
Source: was 5
The next morning, looking for an excuse to not get out of bed, I actually followed through:
On mobile, it completely breaks the back button. I had to swipe about 50 times and watch it letter by letter to get back here.
Secondly, what's the data source? I just tested 'segue' which counted as 1, which makes me think it's guessing instead of like, a word map. Just curious now.
In the "segue" case, it looks like the dictionary lists two pronounciations, one as 'seg', so it uses the lesser of the two. Not sure that pronounciation is valid, though.
Thanks to you and frosted-flakes, I pushed a fix for the back button issue - good catch, I appreciate it.
https://xn--bj8a.com (ꑮ.com)
(For instance, all versions of Safari display the symbol in the address bar.)
> Fake site ahead > Attackers sometimes mimic sites by making small, hard-to-see changes to the URL.
The latest changes are tightening the eligibility criteria. I won’t enumerate them, https://www.auda.org.au/policy/au-domain-administration-rule..., §2.4.4 (Eligibility and allocation criteria → com.au and net.au namespace) is pretty approachable. Under those rules (and again, pjg.com.au is currently tied to the legacy rules, not these ones), pjg.com.au fails to satisfy any condition in sub-paragraph 2.4.4(2).
I have chrismorgan.com.au, and my claim for eligibility is actually slightly tenuous; I haven’t registered any business name (something like $40/year if I recall correctly); 2.4.4(2)(a) I slightly surprisingly fail because it cares about legal names, and my first name is legally Christopher, not Chris, so it doesn’t match (they define the term “match”); and so my claim depends on 2.4.4(2)(b), that “chrismorgan” is an acronym of “Christopher James Morgan”—an unusual but linguistically valid interpretation of the word “acronym”, including their definition of it.
Of those two, ddp.com.au is squatted, but pbm.com.au isn’t, though there’s a fair chance of it failing the eligibility criteria or violating other auDA rules.
I’d be interested to see someone do a widespread squatting scan and submit a bunch of complaints and see what comes of it. But it’d take long enough that I’m not going to do it.
edit: He mentions more stories in the q & a here:
https://www.schlockmercenary.com/blog/2020-there-will-be-an-...