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Gift HN: Anybody want a subdomain of ww.com?

104 points by jacquesm ↗ HN
Hey There, I've been asked for subdomains of ww.com and if I would give them out.

So, one time HN offer, if you want a subdomain of ww.com, you can have one for exactly $0.

The conditions:

  - first come first served

  - subdomains 3 letters or longer (and yes, 'www' is taken ;) )

  - the subdomain is not currently in use by a ww.com user 
   (you can see that by going to subdomain.ww.com, 
   if it redirects to the homepage then you're good)

  - you have a HN account with 20 karma or more

  - you post your domain name in this thread with the IP to go with it

  - no warez / copyright violations or other nonsense

  - do not harm my business

  - no spam, illegal content or otherwise bad behaviour,
    first 'mistake' or headache for me and you lose 
    the subdomain

  - never pretend that you represent ww.com

  - send me an email to confirm this so I can contact you

  - no guarantees, if ww.com gets sold or I have
    a bad hairday you may lose it so don't use 
    it for anything critical
That's not to scare you, I just don't want to make promises that I can't keep in the longer term.

Offer valid for the next 24 hours.

if you liked this check http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1796266 Yan's book gift/exchange posting!

update: I'll make the DNS entries when this thread is 1 day old.

360 comments

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yan
Sure, I'd love one.

w.ww.com (hey i can hope :P) ip: 64.22.109.95

edit: i won't use it for anything nonkosher. edit2: Changed my mind to 'w-ww'?

jacquesm
ah, sorry, new rule :)

I should have added that right away, sorry.

Anything smaller than 3 letters is out for technical reasons.

yan
How about 'yan' then? (You've inspired me to start a similar thread :)

edit: would w-ww work also?

dpavlenkov
how about "net" to 64.202.189.170?
jacquesm
User last seen in 2004, yes, I'm ok with that.
jackowayed
Oh, so things that are essentially squatted are fair game?

I don't see any way to tell if one's been in recent use, but I'll take dan.ww.com -> danieljackoway.com if possible.

jacquesm
Ok, you've got dan.ww.com.
fharper1961
Thank's so much for your generosity Jacques!

I'd like frank.ww.com CNAME theharpers.biz. If frank isn't good then frankh or fharper.

jacquesm
That one has been long abandoned, so sure.
aristidb
com.ww.com, CNAME breitkreuz.me.

if that is possible

sr3d
please count me in...

moc.ww.com

Yes, it's a palindrome.

jacquesm
Ok, that one is fine as well.

That's going to be a long dns file :)

JED3
oh man, i would love to have httpw.ww.com CNAME doig.me
jacquesm
hm that's a bit fishy though

Intended purpose ?

JED3
nothing malign, just think its a neat, clever url. I'd probably use it as a shortener for a couple of my blogs, but if it doesn't sit well with you, can I have jed.ww.com?
jacquesm
jed is cool.

And I agree it's clever ;)

JED3
great! thank you
rasiel
I don't have 20 rep, but i'm begging for belize.ww.com
Derferman
Awesome, thanks :)

api.ww.com CNAME kyleconroy.com

jacquesm
hm that's tricky, we are planning to put an api on to ww.com in the next couple of months for widgets and stuff like that, I'm really sorry.

The same goes for:

maint, dbmaster, www (obviously), video, upload, postcards, dev, mobile, index, eliteindex, chat, files, pics, mob, signup, www, counters and secure (I think that's all of them).

fleitz
ftp?
jacquesm
Ah, of course excellent point. ftp, mail, etc also excepted.

For obvious reasons.

Derferman
No need to apologize, I totally understand. Could I get derf.ww.com? It appears to be free.
jacquesm
Yes, that one was in use but until '03 so I'm ok with that.
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Macha
hirc.ww.com -> 109.74.204.109 please.
lovskogen
wwww.ww.com CNAME m70.no? :)
jacquesm
Hehe, creative. Ok, I'm ok with that conditional on a check to see how much type-in traffic that costs me, cool ?
influx
hive.ww.com -> 75.101.130.3 (hivearchive.com)
vincentpants
can you add

vincent.ww.com -> 74.54.174.88 and/or canada.ww.com -> 74.54.174.88 and/or vhs.ww.com -> 74.54.174.88

in order of preference That would be awesome! Thank you so much in advance!

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ihodes
How about setting news.ww.com to forward to news.ycombinator.com? Or even... Y.ww.com? (if possible, and okay by pg. Just an idea.)
jacquesm
I can do that. But only if PG agrees, no problem from my end.

y.ww ctrl-enter

that'd be funny :)

olalonde
http://ww.com/y gives what looks like a directory listing here. Possibly a security flaw?
jacquesm
tempfile, thanks for the heads up. removed it.
chegra
timeline.ww.com -> www.timeline-x.com
jacquesm
Timeline is yours. Please note I'll do all the DNS updates in one go at the end of the 24 hour period.
yhager
Cool idea. I would like yhager.ww.com CNAME to yhager.com please.
david_p
geo.ww.com -> geo.david.cx would be nice ! thanks !
jacquesm
yes, that's a nice one. you've got it.
olalonde
How about nic.ww.com to 209.20.78.140 :)
armandososa
I don't want any subdomain. Just wanted to say 'thank you' for being so generous.
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jacquesm
Yes, that's cool, you've got it.
aphistic
Oh shoot, I just deleted my comment because I went back and saw that it looks like aph.ww.com isn't redirecting to the home page and I didn't want to bother you if it did.

If it's available, then, I'd appreciate the aph.ww.com -> aph.erikd.org

Thanks! :)

jacquesm
It's ok, lots of people forget to check so I check them anyway, and if the user that used that page hasn't used it in a bunch of years then I'm cool with it.

Don't forget that the first users signed up in '98 and they're long gone, most of the first names were nice & short so there is a good chance they're not actually in use.

I will still have to go through the logs to see if these don't have backlinks pointing to them, but I assume that isn't the case.

tsycho
In that case, could I please have asif.ww.com if that user isn't using it?

Thanks for your generosity again :)

jacquesm
yes, sure, that's been abandoned since 2001.
tapp
Awesome - thanks so much! Sending email now
tapp
Weird - no longer seeing my post upthread like I did before, so now not sure if you were replying to me. Board hiccup maybe? (or I'm easily confused late on a Friday...)

Going to repost below as a reply for reference so thread still makes sense. Thx again

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Very cool offer - thank you. I'm probably begging for a karma hit here, but any chance I could get seo.ww.com? It resolves, but you mentioned that many accounts are abandoned, so figured it couldn't hurt to ask.

CNAME to 8020seo.com if possible - thanks!

Added note: site is still under construction at the moment, but is a web service company and will be not at all spammy.

jacquesm
that's been idle since 2005 so I'm ok with it.
karthikm
One more if its allowed:

careers.ww.com -> caree.rs

Thanks

zacharycohn
If I had more time I'd totally put together a cute cat website and ask for aww.ww.com