Post #1697834
2026-04-24 23:10 UTC
@autisticplushy someone should make a script that randomly checks garbage domain names on a timer, so it just wastes a ton of godaddys money
Replies (4)
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@autisticplushy@lgbtqia.space 2026-04-24 23:11
@ocean 👀
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@drwho@masto.hackers.town 2026-04-24 23:46
@ocean @autisticplushy It doesn't waste their money. They just add a row to their database and it's live.
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@almonds@mastodon.mit.edu 2026-04-25 00:02
@ocean I think they do this to themselves with Punycode domain names. A while ago I got one 2 emojis long, and ever since, they've sent me emails telling me to act fast for "similar" names. They all start with x and have several random letters and aren't even proper Punycode. I'll see if I can find an example... Edit: added screenshot
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@avatastic@avatastic.uk 2026-04-25 01:24
@ocean @autisticplushy oooh we could repurpose my noisy cricket, which took words out of /usr/share/dict and stuck a random tld on the end and did a DNS lookup on them, just to keep my ISPs logs full of garbage lookups.