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A comment on Track HN: Survival Rate of 120,396 Show HN Stories (June 2023). Parent comment

Re:Track HN: Survival Rate of 120,396 Show HN Stories (June ... by Lerc on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @07:28PM (#36319113)
Somone has to be the first one.

I once registered web.site. I had it for a week or two before I tried pointing it at a server at which time someone noticed and took it off me.

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Re:Track HN: Survival Rate of 120,396 Show HN Stories (June ... by bottled_poe on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @07:36PM (#36319192)
“Someone”…?
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Re:Track HN: Survival Rate of 120,396 Show HN Stories (June ... by nl on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @01:12AM (#36321703)
> at which time someone noticed and took it off me.

This... isn't how domain registration works.

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Re:Track HN: Survival Rate of 120,396 Show HN Stories (June ... by girvo on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @01:25AM (#36321765)
I mean it absolutely could be. For a lot of these weird TLDs, it's a single company that makes its own rules as to who owns a domain. Not saying the person you're replying to is right or wrong, but it's not out of the realm of possibility.
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Re:Track HN: Survival Rate of 120,396 Show HN Stories (June ... by nl on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @02:26AM (#36322143)
.site is run by radix. They run quite a few reasonably popular domain names (.tech, .space. .online etc). AFAIK their rules are entirely standard.
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Re:Track HN: Survival Rate of 120,396 Show HN Stories (June ... by Lerc on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @03:53AM (#36322819)
It was taken off me by the same people that I registered it with. They may have broken rules to do so. I just know they said I shouldn't have been given it.
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