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Please fix the first link to 1000memories - it links to a spam site.
by reagan83 10y ago
Please fix the first link to 1000memories - it links to a spam site.
- idlewords 10y agoFor those who don't know, 1000memories was a service meant to allow people to create a "permanent" online memorial to loved ones who had died. Their CEO leaned hard on me to use them after I complained on my blog about the shabby business practices of a competitor, Legacy.com, when my best friend died. Stay classy, YC. I'm sure it would have cost a fortune to keep the domain up.
- jacquesm 10y agoUgh. Given the nature of the site that is particularly galling. But it's done, I don't think there is any way to reverse this.
- jsprogrammer 10y agoEasy, put the permanent records back in place and negotiate back the domain.
- nickpsecurity 10y agoLike so... https://web.archive.org/web/20110205090306/http://1000memories.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20110205090306/http://1000memori... This one might be tougher than usual since the functionality that's very visible is probably dead whereas the links on the bottom containing useful info are tiny and look like the background. You at least see the right site, though.
- whamlastxmas 10y agoSeems like a problem to be solved with a blockchain! Obitucoins.
- koolba 10y agoWow that's pretty sad. Knowing the low price of (effectively) indestructible cloud store (S3) and the near zero bandwidth cost of something like this (I mean seriously how much traffic do you really expect per site?), that's particularly sad.
- gkoberger 10y agoHow is this YC's fault? They don't own the domains of these companies, and have no say over who their companies sell to (in this case, Ancestery.com).
- Analemma_ 10y agoI don't know if it's YC's fault per se, but it sure doesn't reflect well on them when the first link on their giant cheerful "look at all our companies!" list is a dead domain serving malware.
- jsprogrammer 10y agoThey did* own the domain. I don't believe YC does non-equity deals. *I haven't ruled out that YC has no ownership in the squatter, so, they may still "do".
- hkmurakami 10y agoYC owns 6% of the company when they go through their program. This stake is diluted further in future rounds of financing. This is not enough stake in the preferred shares to dictate anything.
- jsprogrammer 10y agoSam's New Deal is for 7%, but I believe YC has re-up'd on some companies in the past.
- hkmurakami 10y agoYC following on is a very recent policy. Before, their stated policy was never to follow on, in order to prevent signaling risk.
- jsprogrammer 10y agoHas signalling risk gone away, or has YC expanded its appetite?
- Analemma_ 10y agoOur Incredible Journey toward extinction and malware-serving domain squatters.
- snowmaker 10y agoThanks, we fixed it.