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/
44ReplyI don’t like this post.
28ReplyPlot twist:
Private equity buys your registrar and jacks up the renewal price 5x.
33ReplyDouble-twist-back: it's not under a special TLD, so you can transfer it to another registrar.
5ReplyIt's too close to expiration for a transfer. 😔 givemoney.gif
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Delete this. Now.
19ReplyI haven’t felt this targeted in some time.
19ReplyWhy you gotta do this to me
23ReplyYou can take stronk.bond from my cold dead hands.
19ReplyHonestly even if I did I'd preserve the page as is, beautiful
9ReplyIt's literally all I wanted to do when I saw the .bond TLD came up for registration.
5ReplyWhats on there? I just get an access denied message.
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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
4Reply$1/month isn't bad though.
9ReplyJust 3.3 cents per day seems pretty reasonable
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If you don't, you'll pay a lot more to get it back if you ever want to
11ReplyI finally added at least something to puter.group. It had almost been a year.
7Reply(OH MY GOD, SO MANY MORE. This must be the ADHD thing...)
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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.
4Replydamn this one headshotted me. ouch
I said hey man nice shot.
8ReplyThere's no reason to think that I'm no longer chasing my dream, that I'm being dragged by it is there? - Marc Maron
5ReplyNew button: new dream to maybe kill off next year
7ReplyBuying a nice domain and it actually being used is such a good feeling
4Reply/me looks at his lemmy instance domain
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Brutal. Savage. Rekt.
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