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- ROARosen 6y agoThis is truly altruistic for the public benefit, in a way that's hard to find these days. I'm sure you can sell the domain to GitHub for a pretty penny. Surely, after being on the front page of HN with the hundreds of clicks that will bring.... Which makes me think... Truly altruistic or smart business move? Either way thanks and good luck!
- radicalriddler 6y agoCan't they just issue a redirect, either via dns or via nginx to github.com instead of showing the page if it was truly altruistic?
- core-utility 6y agoThat could pose its own ethical issues, especially if companies start accidentally creating documentation and links to guthib.com without realizing it's redirecting them. At least this way it's clear you've made a mistake.
- ibraheemdev 6y agoI doubt it was created to benefit others, it looks more like a joke to me.
- ROARosen 6y agoMy point was, I believe the person who did this is is partly - aside from the joke aspect - trying to get it at the top of HN which will cause it to have a fairly large amount of traffic, which will in turn potentially lift the price point if they offer to sell to GitHub. After all, if you can show ppl commonly make this mistake when trying to access GH (hence the large amount of traffic), it incentivizes them to buy it. That is also why there is no redirect, because that would eliminate GH's need to buy it to begin with , since the end goal is already taken care of. And even if this is not what they intended, they should now. I believe it's actually quite a clever way to add some value to this domain.
- dwohnitmok 6y agoAs pointed out by another comment it looks like this is a joke from GitHub itself, as they own this domain.
- ibraheemdev 6y agoI think you are referring to my comment that said guthub.com is owned by Github, not guthib.com :)
- dwohnitmok 6y agoAh of course, I didn't notice it was the same person.
- rzzzwilson 6y agoI just use the other spelling: gitlab.com .
- trashcat 6y agoBut so many trackers! https://themarkup.org/blacklight?url=gitlab.com https://themarkup.org/blacklight?url=gitlab.com
- ibraheemdev 6y agoguthub.com seems to be owned by GitHub.
- mastrsushi 6y agoSomething about the fact that they don't even bother to provide a redirect adds to the charm.
- bitwize 6y agoReminds me of https://howdoeshomeopathywork.com https://howdoeshomeopathywork.com
- m463 6y agoand a 151 byte web page...
- PhillyG 6y ago8 lines of code total, 9 if you include the empty line at the end. I didn't know you could put so few tags and have it render. No <body> or even <html>, that's quite impressive
- andreareina 6y agoc.f. http://buttflare.com/ http://buttflare.com/
- p4l4g4 6y agoNice! Shame it shows 404 when accessing sub directories.
- ArcMex 6y agoGot a good chuckle out of me.
- ChrisArchitect 6y agosuspicions about selling it to github (who probably owns it) aside: this is from a long time ago (4-10 years) so don't harp on no HTTPS or redirects heh
- ChrisArchitect 6y agoconfirmed from a guy that this was set up by a random as a joke in 2010 and nothing more to it. A lesson in keeping every domain you own forever and ever haha
- RicoElectrico 6y agoI remember that hitgub.com presented an animation which swapped the letters of the logo and redirected to github.com. But whoever owned the domain must have forgotten to renew it and now it serves some generic parked-domain page (without scammy ads, though). There's a copy archived: http://web.archive.org/web/20130212130417/http://hitgub.com/ http://web.archive.org/web/20130212130417/http://hitgub.com/