Recently, someone tried to sell it to me for $250. I didn't know if it was a scam or not. Turns out it was... half a scam? They didn't own it, because nobody did, because it had lapsed one more. SO, after about 20 years, smbccomics.com is once again... MINE - ThreadSky

zachweinersmith.bsky.social • 70 days ago

Recently, someone tried to sell it to me for $250. I didn't know if it was a scam or not. Turns out it was... half a scam? They didn't own it, because nobody did, because it had lapsed one more.

SO, after about 20 years, https://smbccomics.com is once again... MINE

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judet.bsky.social•70 days ago

crajaspedet.bsky.social•70 days ago

I'm running on 3 hours of sleep and this is funnier to me than the current comic. But only by a little.

To be fair though, I came into work with over 9000 emails and heard Vegetta's voice in my head say the line. I laughed so hard I was crying. So I'm probably not a good judge at the moment.

leviathan3k.bsky.social•70 days ago

our long dash-only nightmare is over

msneonkitten.bsky.social•70 days ago

Heh, out of grins, I just checked a domain I used to own, let lapse, had a person try to sell back to me for $1200 and it's just abandoned and available now. 😂 Maybe I should pick it back up.

tautadiction.bsky.social•70 days ago

Someone once offered me $500 for a domain I wasn’t using. I sold it to them, more because I wasn’t using it than for the money. They used it for like a year and then let it lapse.

cptpatch.bsky.social•70 days ago

This is exactly the kind of mundane moral victory that needs the biggest congratulations. Great news!

shemakesmeso.bsky.social•70 days ago

So, I know you're the owner, but would you like to buy it again, so that I don't buy it in the future? I'll give you a great rate of $5000, which in the future, after these tariffs, will be enough to buy a dozen eggs.

apawhite.bsky.social•70 days ago

Congrats!

roquerol.bsky.social•70 days ago

Congrats!!

jackmitcham.bsky.social•70 days ago

Nice. Now to set up the 301 redirect?

proprietous.bsky.social•70 days ago

Ha! You outlasted a url squatter! Amazing.

zachweinersmith.bsky.social•70 days ago

Now I just need this guy https://smbc.com/

tyler.lane.codes•70 days ago

hahahaha why though it's perfect!

mistersql.bsky.social•70 days ago

https://saturdaymorningbreakfastcereal.com/ is still available.

zachweinersmith.bsky.social•70 days ago

Also apparently URL-squatting is no longer a thing? I hadn't realized.

russet-burbank.bsky.social•70 days ago

Sure is what this site looks like

tinpottop.bsky.social•70 days ago

All the pre-internet names have the URLs. Can't squat up and coming brands.

Having ridiculous names get normalized and expanding the dots beyond .com made squatting pointless.

proprietous.bsky.social•70 days ago

I hate to say it, but in this case... Poob really does have it for you.

edward-moon.bsky.social•70 days ago

Tried out a typo-squatted url I remembered from 10+ years ago and Google correctly identified the desired url and showed me links from the desired url.

Looks like if you type random crap into a browser it's safer now.

hentaikid.com•70 days ago

It's certainly no longer as automatic and pervasive as it used to be, I noticed years ago when I was able to recover a friend's lapsed domain and it hadn't been auto-squatted

scragar.bsky.social•70 days ago

As I understand it the USA passed a law outlawing cybersquatting around 2000, it's hard to get domains using that law but it does hurt squatters ability to pressure people for money so it's been on the decline since.
Doesn't stop places like GoDaddy doing it and claiming they're reserving it though.

vihangdixit.bsky.social•70 days ago

To be fair, they've got a pretty cool thing going on there.

alans9.bsky.social•70 days ago

YES!

heromachine.com•70 days ago

That’s great, so glad you got control of it back!!

discordian-pope.bsky.social•70 days ago

I had that happen with an old employer about 20 years ago, we owned the .net and they wanted to sell us the .com for 10x what the registrar charged us for the next 5 years registration.

antioccident.bsky.social•70 days ago

This would have been an excellent opportunity to rickroll with that url

dbanwell.bsky.social•70 days ago

Congrats!

ccanonne.github.io•70 days ago

COMPLETE AT LAST

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