i have the same, but they put porn links everywhere and it mildly damages reputation of ex-employees.
It happened to the state of Maryland, too: their domain registration for starspangled200.org, featured on their license plates, expired and was picked up by a gambling website in the Philippines. Maryland has since reclaimed the domain.
https://jalopnik.com/maryland-license-plate-url-directs-gamb...
Re:Vice website is shutting down
by afterburner on Friday February 23, 2024 @01:40AM
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I guess the lesson is, never give up a domain.
Kinda what I took away too. Which is a bummer because it raises the costs of trying things out, at least on new domains.
I guess using subdomains of a main site isn't that bad an alternative.
Re:Vice website is shutting down
by thewakalix on Friday February 23, 2024 @03:51AM
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What a letdown!
I had a domain in early smartphone days for a mobile app that served up some Canadian Broadcasting Corporation content. I eventually abandoned the app/domain and the CBC snapped it up - so that's about the best-case scenario.
Within a few months someone else had snapped it up, created a site, used the same content (I assume from the Internet archive), and was using it to link farm.
At least that's what I thought when I saw the new site with a few links that were not there before.
I only discovered it because they also left the Gmail address that I was using for the site. So I got a couple of emails from folks wanting to update info on the site.
Feels a bit weird, tbh.
No way to determine who is behind it, and what would I do anyway?