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> and there are likely few other buyers he could ethically sell to Anyone that wanted to develop a real business based on a tremendous four letter .com address
by adventured 7y ago
> and there are likely few other buyers he could ethically sell to
Anyone that wanted to develop a real business based on a tremendous four letter .com address, which is a vast selection of potential buyers he could ethically sell to.
The name itself, independent of the inbound sensitive stream of data, is worth a lot. Any major enterprise company in the US could trivially develop policies to deal with the inbound sensitive data while using the name for a legitimate business. This one guy has been dealing with it just fine for two decades.
- myself248 7y agoI think it'd be a lot of fun to set up a responder of sorts, that would handle the incoming traffic, discard the sensitive bits, and feed back something like "Your administrator needs to apply KBxxxxxx patch" in any fields of whatever sort of traffic may apply. I'm sure someone would get their undies in a twist and sue me, which is why I've never done anything of the sort with the juicy traffic that's come my way (in a similar, though long in the past, situation that shall remain unspecified). But 1 packet out of 100,000 gets upsidedownternet.
- untog 7y ago> anyone that wanted to develop a real business based on a tremendous four letter .com address I genuinely wonder how much that matters these days. You've got app stores, Google searches, etc... I think having a memorable, short .com URL was a huge thing in the mid-2000s, but I'm less sure that it is today.