Raise your hand if you're paying for a domain & have never done anything with it ๐Ÿ˜
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@nixCraft a banch!
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@nixCraft Shut uppp I will find something to use it for sooooooon-ish
@nixCraft I'm in this picture and don't like it.
@nixCraft For more than a decade.
@Azarilh Defensive registrations, mostly. Alternative TLDs for things that actually exist that I either run myself or that groups Iโ€™m affiliated with run, to ensure they canโ€™t be taken by someone trying to impersonate the site/group.
@nixCraft the stunned silence from the web dev sales drones calling from the third world when I tell them I registered it as a joke over lunch and have kept paying for it for 6 years is worth it.
@nixCraft *goes to domain page and counts ..*
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@nixCraft have a bunch but not yet start working on and some of them are approaching their first annual renewalโ€ฆ
@nixCraft please clarify: one domain specifically or one or more domains?

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I did this some years ago. I did want to use it as a homepage without any clue how to build one because I'm a backend developer.

Also I didn't had any clue how to maintain a Linux root server.

Long story short there was a non public website and a minecraft server running. On a Server which did had super limited hardware ๐Ÿ˜‚

@nixCraft ๐ŸคšBut I might do something with it someday.
@nixCraft captain-catpain.com is looking for takers, dm me for authcode. captaincatpain.com is included. ๐Ÿคก
@nixCraft Many domains for many years.

@nixCraft oy, I wish it was A singular domain

I probably have twenty

@nixCraft But it's on my todo list for 2025 to actually use it...
@nixCraft Wishing it was only one โ€” I need to get help.
@nixCraft "a" domain. Oh dear. I think I may have a problem.
@nixCraft does it count as doing nothing with it if I grabbed a domain with my companyโ€™s name (different tld) so scammers canโ€™t use it?
@nixCraft I was, let them expire, and now they are forwarded to Chinese gambling sites. I want them back!
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I don't have enough hands to raise
@nixCraft for once, I can keep it lowered, finally set up a @doncow server, and working on making my very own mastodon instance, git, and so on
@nixCraft I subverted this trope by just using a subdomain on the domain Iโ€™m actually using. ๐Ÿ˜…

Same. I have two domains. Every time I need a new one, I just use a new subdomain.

@Taffer @nixCraft

@nixCraft do I have to raise one hand per domain? I might nit have enough hands. Or fingers.
@nixCraft Parking it is technically doing something with it, so I'm using *all* of my domains.
@nixCraft I'm technically doing "something" with it. An old blog I hardly ever update and my late father's art/painting site.
@nixCraft I had a free *.tk domain connected to a free CDN account. Haven't done anything special, so does that count?