Prawnz

This is the best option really, it's the manager's job to correct behavior and there are lots of jobs out there where you don't have to deal with that.

Is this not, in essence, just subcontracting?

Because I can't buy pizza.com but now I have a shot at pizza.new I guess. Some companies are willing to jump through hoops if it gets them a good domain

I think you might have wires crossed, .new is a domain. So if github buy repo.new then they can host on it. Good names are first come, first served

If Pizzahut bought pizza.new they could host a webservice on there provided the webservice resulted in something new.