Yeah, I use that so much for notes and stuff that I had to create an app script to clean my GDrive from the hundreds, if not 1000+, of "unnamed document"s left behind.
Does anyone remember the "every man" something or other Japanese website with funny WebGL / Three.js experiments from back in ~2015? It had a character builder and fun interactivity, and I could have sworn I learned about it on HN. I think Adult Swim briefly bought it and then shuttered it. It had a really silly domain name.
Honestly I think I happened to be on godaddy like 12 years ago looking for a domain and saw it was coming soon. And then I stayed up and tried to get a domain haha
I have little faith in the government organisations and registrars that run ccTLDs (which are likely to have political risk as well), and I'm glad that NPR likely thinks the same way.
One about the annoying things about Maciej is that he acquired Delicious the domain .icio.us, but never did anything auspicious, maybe suspicious or malicious with the latter.
I have youknowwhat.com. Bought it back when there was only one company selling domains and you had to pay two years in advance.
I used to get SO many "ecard" receipts from people who thought they were being clever by putting the "From:" as youknowwho@youknowwhat.com
It was so many emails, in fact, that I had to change email providers because they were threatening to kick me off from the traffic. That, and every other spammy email system that existed because that email address was in every single mailing list ever haha.
I’m going to be this “old grumpy” guy and mention that I hate it when I see plain text URLs which aren’t hyperlinked… come on, we’re in 2025 just do us a favor and put links, why do I have to select the text, copy it, open a new tab and then paste it (I’m using an older iPad). Even on desktop I have to select the text, right click and then visit the site.
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[ 0.28 ms ] story [ 126 ms ] threadIirc openai bought chat.com for several millions of dollars lately.
- sci.fi
- cr.yp.to
- assimilated.b.org
- tpc.int [0]
0: https://en.everybodywiki.com/The_Phone_Company
- https://ofcourse.horse/
- `traceroute -m 50 bad.horse` [1]
Does anyone remember the "every man" something or other Japanese website with funny WebGL / Three.js experiments from back in ~2015? It had a character builder and fun interactivity, and I could have sworn I learned about it on HN. I think Adult Swim briefly bought it and then shuttered it. It had a really silly domain name.
[1] https://imgur.com/aklGICS
Very "del.icio.us"-esque
https://how.rl.works
Got it the night before .codes released and have had others try to buy it off me a few times. Never!
Anybody else whose name or moniker is a FQDN?
I have <mylastname.>de and I'm happy enough with that.
repo.new (new repository page)
gist.new (new gist page)
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_code_top-level_domain
sci.app
and
vga.ai
^^
Some good ones I can think of:
archive.org (does what it says)
ifconfig.me (same name as the tool)
noise.fm (I want this for a personal project but came in late)
js.org
radio.garden
ob https://files.ohai.social/media_attachments/files/111/755/74...
I took notion too long to transition from that .so domain to the .com.
Well played!
https://pi.ctu.re
I also needed to build another app to fetch and resize the images, and found it neat to use the following:
https://infra.stru.ctu.re
In term of users the service never went anywhere and it's quite dated now but it doesn't cost much to keep it online and it's open source.
le.ctu.re is also a viable option ;)
Also this reminds of del.icio.us (not sure about the placement of that first dot, though). Epic domain and legendary service. RIP!
I used to get SO many "ecard" receipts from people who thought they were being clever by putting the "From:" as youknowwho@youknowwhat.com
It was so many emails, in fact, that I had to change email providers because they were threatening to kick me off from the traffic. That, and every other spammy email system that existed because that email address was in every single mailing list ever haha.
The URL does redirect to the mail service but not sure if I'm remembering wrong or she finally got an offer even she couldn't pass.
First world problems :-)
This is about the domains and not the websites!