Re:Email from Jeff Bezos to employees
by devlopr on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @07:29PM
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It was really common to type in random words as domains expecting something. People would make mistakes so people would buy domains with common spelling mistakes.
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Re:Email from Jeff Bezos to employees
by mortenjorck on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @08:29PM
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I have a random memory of the website at hanson.com having a banner alerting visitors that the website of the popular late-90s boy band was in fact at hansonline.com, and that you would only find information about guitars made by the Hanson company should you further browse the site at which you currently found yourself.
Curiously, that domain now redirects to some concrete company, Hanson guitars existing instead at hanson-guitars.com.
I suspect a Hanson Guitars received a cash offer they couldn't refuse for their domain. ;-)
Re:Email from Jeff Bezos to employees
by jaredsohn on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @11:31PM
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Even today, nissan.com is Nissan Computer rather than the car company. Copyright 1994-2021.
Browsers also tried to autocomplete <word> as www.<word>.com (and .net and .org, iirc) and send you there if it resolved. At some point they switched to sending you to search engines instead, but i bet there are flags somewhere in Firefox' bowels that will still do that for you if you really want.