Thanks for the archive link. I was pumping myself up since you didn't seem to name-drop the company. I love these sort of anecdote stories.
Re:I am done. I give up
by prmoustache on Friday December 23, 2022 @08:43AM
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Or it may be that the only asset of the company left is a brand and giving out the domain to the world would might make that brand unsellable in the future.
This is a funny thing with companies that get taken over.
My dad used to run an ISP, one of the first ones in my home country. I'm talking 28.8kbit modems. The company was sold and shut down more than 20 years ago. The company that bought them out got bought out, that company then got bought and, and this repeated a few times.
The domain still keeps getting renewed, and for a while redirected to the main page of the largest IT firm in the country. I assume that, along the way of all those acquisitions, domains just kept getting transferred, and nobody knows what those domains are, but it's cheaper to just renew than to find out.
Anyway, it's a fun little reminder of the impact my dad made in this world :)
https://web.archive.org/web/19970409101251/http://www.est.is...