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ROARosen
This is truly altruistic for the public benefit, in a way that's hard to find these days.

I'm sure you can sell the domain to GitHub for a pretty penny. Surely, after being on the front page of HN with the hundreds of clicks that will bring....

Which makes me think... Truly altruistic or smart business move?

Either way thanks and good luck!

radicalriddler
Can't they just issue a redirect, either via dns or via nginx to github.com instead of showing the page if it was truly altruistic?
core-utility
That could pose its own ethical issues, especially if companies start accidentally creating documentation and links to guthib.com without realizing it's redirecting them. At least this way it's clear you've made a mistake.
ibraheemdev
I doubt it was created to benefit others, it looks more like a joke to me.
ROARosen
My point was, I believe the person who did this is is partly - aside from the joke aspect - trying to get it at the top of HN which will cause it to have a fairly large amount of traffic, which will in turn potentially lift the price point if they offer to sell to GitHub. After all, if you can show ppl commonly make this mistake when trying to access GH (hence the large amount of traffic), it incentivizes them to buy it. That is also why there is no redirect, because that would eliminate GH's need to buy it to begin with , since the end goal is already taken care of.

And even if this is not what they intended, they should now. I believe it's actually quite a clever way to add some value to this domain.

dwohnitmok
As pointed out by another comment it looks like this is a joke from GitHub itself, as they own this domain.
ibraheemdev
I think you are referring to my comment that said guthub.com is owned by Github, not guthib.com :)
dwohnitmok
Ah of course, I didn't notice it was the same person.
mastrsushi
Something about the fact that they don't even bother to provide a redirect adds to the charm.
m463
and a 151 byte web page...
PhillyG
8 lines of code total, 9 if you include the empty line at the end. I didn't know you could put so few tags and have it render. No <body> or even <html>, that's quite impressive
p4l4g4
Nice! Shame it shows 404 when accessing sub directories.
ArcMex
Got a good chuckle out of me.
ChrisArchitect
suspicions about selling it to github (who probably owns it) aside: this is from a long time ago (4-10 years) so don't harp on no HTTPS or redirects heh
ChrisArchitect
confirmed from a guy that this was set up by a random as a joke in 2010 and nothing more to it. A lesson in keeping every domain you own forever and ever haha