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I'm sorry if this is a total dumbass question: Why would anyone want this? They would have to trust jacquesm (as well intentioned as he may be) to continue to

I'm sorry if this is a total dumbass question: Why would anyone want this? They would have to trust jacquesm (as well intentioned as he may be) to continue to have awesome intentions forever... and if he/she ever sold the domain, everyone who has setup a subdomain would probably loose all the links they might have built to it. The only reason I could potentially see this being useful is as a url shortcut... but still, you risk the same situation as when/if a url shortner like bit.ly goes out of business. When you're building your brand equity, you got to make sure you own the equity that you're building. If you have a domain name, use it. If you don't like it, get a better one. Maybe I'm just missing something.

jacquesm 16y ago
No question is dumbass. Most of the concerns you've got were addressed in the text above I believe. As for me having 'good intentions' or not, time will be the judge of that, but let's just say that I spent a lot of time trying to be useful to HN and it would be a really dumb move to piss of a large portion of what has slowly become my network. That said I can't offer guarantees hence the caveat. Second, I think that most people here are more than smart enough to factor that in to their thinking and in to their use of the domain. But for those that do not, please take melvinram's warning to heart. So you've got my upvote.
- dotBen 16y ago
  Are you offering this because you will indirectly benefit from the PageRank from subdomains and presumably most HN'ers will have active sites that will experience good PageRank?
  - jacquesm 16y ago
    You're the second one to ask, see below for the anwer: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1796784 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1796784
  - mcknz 16y ago
    A fair question, though I like Su's outlook: Use Occam’s Razor in interpersonal relations: look for the simplest, most straightforward explanation that assumes the best of everybody. Stay away from people who always have a conspiracy theory involving twisted office politics, unfulfilled Machiavellian ambitions, and unspoken agendas.

jacquesm 16y ago

No question is dumbass. Most of the concerns you've got were addressed in the text above I believe. As for me having 'good intentions' or not, time will be the judge of that, but let's just say that I spent a lot of time trying to be useful to HN and it would be a really dumb move to piss of a large portion of what has slowly become my network. That said I can't offer guarantees hence the caveat. Second, I think that most people here are more than smart enough to factor that in to their thinking and in to their use of the domain. But for those that do not, please take melvinram's warning to heart. So you've got my upvote.

dotBen 16y ago
Are you offering this because you will indirectly benefit from the PageRank from subdomains and presumably most HN'ers will have active sites that will experience good PageRank?
- jacquesm 16y ago
  You're the second one to ask, see below for the anwer: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1796784 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1796784
- mcknz 16y ago
  A fair question, though I like Su's outlook: Use Occam’s Razor in interpersonal relations: look for the simplest, most straightforward explanation that assumes the best of everybody. Stay away from people who always have a conspiracy theory involving twisted office politics, unfulfilled Machiavellian ambitions, and unspoken agendas.