Gregory's Server
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  @Heliograph and giving up it means it goes to a spammer that'll ask the next person 2k to use it... @Heliograph And after 5years stagnation, I did end up using two of my long running domain names this year. :) @Heliograph Both static sites, one running on my own server and one on codeberg. Keeping a web and gemini server running is easy enough to automate, so if I forget, no harm done. :) @Heliograph Yeah, the one thing I haven't found a good static solution for is photo albums or portfolios. I've been looking for a while, but anything I've found haven't fitted well in my work flow, which involves a lot of GUI work, including geo taggin them and having a map. Suggestions welcome :)  @Heliograph joke 's on you. My hobby projects all die after git init. There is no domain to renew, it never gets that far.  @pseyfert @Heliograph youβre doing projects wrong. You start with the destination. Then git init and THEN you give up.  @Heliograph @DoctorDisco There is a third button: Ooooh now I can justify ditching this one and buying a new one instead!!! @codeofamor @Heliograph don't say that !! π I'm already guilty of being a serial domain owner. I currently own 5 'live' domains and possess a ring binder with a two inch stack of old nominet registration certificates dating back to the early 90's My main 'live' domain is for my own personal mastodon instance (the keen eyed among you will notice THIS βοΈ is NOT a personal instance) and that's going as well as could be expected π www.alittleofnothing.co.uk haha @DoctorDisco @Heliograph I'm afraid I don't know what the impressive-sounding ring-binder stack is for, but I TRY to be prudent in my domain purchases. I do not always succeed. @Heliograph Not cool. Not cool at all dude/ss. That's no laughing matter, I could really use that 120$. @Heliograph How could your dream grow if you have 12 USD to spend whereas people like Musk have 12 000 000 000 USD to spend on their dreams? @malerbabomba @Heliograph  @luciedigitalni very good π π I've set mine to auto-renew :blobimfine: :blobcatgoogly2:  @Heliograph "Well that's that"..    @Heliograph and they do not deserve to die! we NEED dreamers! no seriously, I myself had put a mark: not more than three unused domains a year, and not longer than one year unused. in the end, i have only one with my name, and one with my favourite nickname. and those are used for my email account.  relatiert: mΓΆchte irgendwer die wunderschΓΆne aber leere domain zentropia.de haben? abzugeben in gute hΓ€nde bevorzugt mit #entropialeaks hintergrund   @Heliograph I'm not listening. I can't hear you. I'm busy typing "w... W... w... joker.... .com " @Heliograph I try and keep the domains at a minimum, but mostly wait one year extra to make sure no service or any of my software is still calling it. Basic security.  @Heliograph @andrewg .io is like 48$ now, so if your dream dates back to the beginning of 10s you pay even moar  @politicalfinger @Heliograph "Nobody βownesβ domain names." Correct, same as for phone numbers. "We rent them from an ICANN authorized registrar", yes and no. ICANN regulates gTLD space, not ccTLD space. There are over 1500 TLDs nowadays, including one per country in the world. If you want to be free of ICANN, then choose a ccTLD.   @Heliograph I had u-are.gay for a while until the renewal would've been 56β¬ π  @Heliograph I just need one more year, bro. One more year and I'll have this project up and polished and ready for everyone to see!  I'm sorry, but you probably won't. We probably all won't. And we'll probably renew anyway, all saying "one more year". But that's ok! It's the dreams that keep us alive! Could be worse. Try paying for HOSTING for years for a dream that was never realized... @Heliograph And sometimes don't renew and let others pwn you: https://labs.watchtowr.com/we-spent-20-to-achieve-rce-and-accidentally-became-the-admins-of-mobi/ Stemming from "As part of our research, we discovered that a few years ago the WHOIS server for the .MOBI TLD migrated from whois.dotmobiregistry.net to whois.nic.mobi β and the dotmobiregistry.net domain had been left to expire seemingly in December 2023."    I've had the perfect domain name for almost a year now, but I can't find the right blogging platform, or discover if it's worth the faff to get it all set up.  @Heliograph@mastodon.au I have a domain name zho.pa (kinda like if there was a domain name assho.le, but in Russian) and unfortunately its about 200 bucks a year @Heliograph@mastodon.au I got rid of a domain that has been snapped up.
I sort of wish I had kept it, but it's throwing money away for no reason really |
@Heliograph it's happening to me RIGHT NOW