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It's really difficult to understand why anyone would want to do this. Unless they were working with Let's Encrypt directly I really don't see how this could eve
by ryanlol 10y ago
It's really difficult to understand why anyone would want to do this. Unless they were working with Let's Encrypt directly I really don't see how this could ever be acceptable.
Why would anyone do such an obviously bad thing and slap their company information in the whois?
- guitarbill 10y agoBecause they thought they could get away with it - just like all of the other stuff they've done. And they did get away with it for a while.
- ryanlol 10y agoWhat's the motivation though? It doesn't seem like they've really ever used the domain. Right now this all just seems utterly pointless and stupid on their part, but I guess that's really nothing new.
- avian 10y agoTo me, the most obvious motivation for registering the domain would be to basically make a domain squat. Redirect anyone visiting "letsencrypt.cn" to their own, similarly named (and now defunct as far as I know) service "StartEncrypt" [1]. Like any other domain squat, it would probably allow them to profit to some degree from the buzz Let's Encrypt was generating. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11903513 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11903513
- vertex-four 10y agoExcept that they weren't doing that.
- rhizome 10y agoA "win at all costs" mentality, "winning" being defined as "whatever I feel like doing." You see a lot of this trait in the criminal justice system, if you've never been through it.