Luigi Mangione, who is charged with first-degree murder in the ambush killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, made the comments on a website set up by his defense.
It gets expensive if you want a domain name that someone already owns, that gets unreasonably expensive quickly, and I could rant for half an hour about why domain squatting (aka buying domains for regular 20-40$ per year from the registrar, only to sit on it so if someone else wants it they need to buy it from you) is shit and should be outlawed.
I remember having made a simple site for a small business I worked for. Told them to remember paying the annual 18$ bill for their domain name.
Cue two years later and they forgot, the domain was taken by some squatters. They were asking for 1000$ annually for the domain name !
I told them not to pay and of course the name was available a year later at the same original price of 18$ a year. They never forgot after.
Huh, TIL!
It gets expensive if you want a domain name that someone already owns, that gets unreasonably expensive quickly, and I could rant for half an hour about why domain squatting (aka buying domains for regular 20-40$ per year from the registrar, only to sit on it so if someone else wants it they need to buy it from you) is shit and should be outlawed.
I remember having made a simple site for a small business I worked for. Told them to remember paying the annual 18$ bill for their domain name. Cue two years later and they forgot, the domain was taken by some squatters. They were asking for 1000$ annually for the domain name !
I told them not to pay and of course the name was available a year later at the same original price of 18$ a year. They never forgot after.
There’s an
Emacs pluginextra-hell for thatTLD*
😝