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Fuck.com (1997)
- m-i-l 5y agoThe UK equivalent was registered in 1996 for the "well known and respected Fulchester Underwater Canoeing Klubb", allegedly to get around UK name registration rules.
- fiftyacorn 5y agoWhich was owned by Viz
- msdrigg 5y agoWell it resolves to something now. I guess they relaxed their policy.
- consumer451 5y agoWhile this other policy got worse...? > If christian.org had been secured by out and out blasphemers, why couldn't I get a simple swear word? http://www.christian.org/ http://www.christian.org/ > This domain has been suspended due to non-completion of an ICANN-mandated contact verification.
- vageli 5y agoThis is solvable by just clicking on the link they send to the contact of record.
- jliptzin 5y agoMaybe they don’t have God’s address?
- consumer451 5y agoCuriouser and curiouser!
- dang 5y agoOne past bit: Fuck.com - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14000570 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14000570 - March 2017 (2 comments)
- john-doe 5y agoOn a related note, FUFME is still online: http://www.easylife.org/fufme/ http://www.easylife.org/fufme/
- romanhn 5y agoThe Y2K compliance statement was a great touch.
- spaceisballer 5y agoI thought when I invented the Universal Serial Dick (USD) I was unique.
- azalemeth 5y agoI get the distinct feeling that website might be very useful prior art in any forthcoming teledildonics patent cases. Also, the "box cover" art is amazing. From their FAQ: > Can I use FuckU-FuckMe for anal or oral sex? > >Certainly! But be sure to set the preferences to oral/anal for best results. Ensure first that these acts are legal in your state. We cannot be held responsible for the legal consequences of extracoital use. Is that really true -- are there places in america where either sex toys or anal/oral sex either are not legal, or were not legal in ~1997?
- nsp 5y agoSodomy - which I believe legally was essentially 'non vaginal sex' was illegal in Texas until 2003. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_v._Texas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_v._Texas
- kevin_thibedeau 5y agoAnd toys were contraband in Texas until 2008. You'd have to register as a sex offender if caught selling them.
- kwhitefoot 5y agoAlabama, still illegal it seems: https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3aipiz/til_alabama_is_the_only_us_state_where_a_law/ https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3aipiz/til_a...
- justinator 5y agoStill weird to me to see bud.com actually be something commercial, rather than a bunch of random links ala Memepool.
- Jugurtha 5y agoThe site reads from another era. There are some things like "Fravia+" that sometimes feel from an era that never existed. One person from Greece contacted me on Facebook, of all places, because I had something on Fravia+. I grew fond of that person and almost met them in Athens when I went to Greece (to meet another person I knew on the internet after a week of meetings in Paris where I said: "screw it, let's just do it"), because we shared one bit of an almost lost memory of the internet. It truly is special.
- kingcharles 5y agoI was trying to register this too in 1994. I guess it was a race between several of us to register stupid domains. I was also bending their ears to get them to let me register the remaining single-character dotcoms. It is heartwarming to see the Internic form on that page - you used to type up the text file and email it to them and wait. You could have pretty much any domain you wanted in 1994. Except fuck.com. Also, they were FREE. I lost all mine once they introduced the $200/year registration fee, after, I believe, Unilever sent them 19,000 registration requests for each of their trademarks. Despite domains being free, most of the web sites I would visit were simply hosted on IPs. I had a big notebook next to my PC with all the IPs written down. That was my DNS in 1994.
- lokimedes 5y agoAmazing how quickly it transitioned to a more mainstream web. We had internet at home in 1995-96 and I registered my first domain in 1997 - by that time domains and DNS worked pretty much like today.
- uncletammy 5y ago> by that time domains and DNS worked pretty much like today. And by then it was too late. It was already broken beyond repair.
- usefulcat 5y agoIn a way, one of the more prescient things I have done in my life was to register the .org for my surname in 1999. I wasn't the first, but my timing was good. I do use it, so it's not just sitting idle.
- stevekemp 5y agoI registered "steve.org.uk" in April 1999. steve.com and steve.org were registered in 1995, and 1997 respectively. So I guess I was very slow! Happily after moving from the UK to Finland I did manage to grab steve.fi, which had expired within the first year of my relocation.
- DarkmSparks 5y agolol, when you discover c__t.com links to a wikipedia page.
- DonHopkins 5y agoWARNING: NOT SAFE FOR MASTURBATION!
- mhh__ 5y agoHis legacy lives on I guess
- kingcharles 5y agoI don't think you need to censor yourself here...
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- rgoulter 5y agoComing from New Zealand, "cunt" is about as bad as "jerk" or "moron". I saw John McWhorter discuss that "cunt" is one of two unspeakable words to Americans. -- I think McWhorter's discusison is pretty interesting: https://archive.md/ImjgJ https://archive.md/ImjgJ
- smcl 5y agoI get that swearing is less severe than the US and that "cunt" isn't any worse than other swear words in NZ (it's the same in Scotland). But is it really on the same level as "jerk"? Like could a kid in school say someone was being a "cunt" without being reprimanded by their teacher?
- rgoulter 5y agoAh, you're right. I mainly meant to emphasise how it was a less severe word than in the US.
- tcmb 5y agoHis email address is justin@cyberorgasmic, without a TLD. Could someone please explain how this worked back then?
- rshannon3 5y agoiirc the hosts file was the primary DNS at the time, and would sync every 24 hours from a master hosts file online. Thus not needing TLDs to resolve hostnames.
- kingcharles 5y agoWhile this would work, Internic would need to share the same HOSTS file. I don't remember a global shared HOSTS like that. When Windows 95 came out I created an online shared cdplayer.ini where everyone added their own track info and we intended to create a file that had info for every CD in the world (this was before CDDB was invented). Sadly the project self-destructed because W95 had a hard 64Kb limit on .ini files.
- LeoPanthera 5y agoThis is exactly how CDDB got started, except it was a database file for xmcd.
- marcus0x62 5y agoNo, there was a global hosts file prior to DNS — see RFCs 811[1] and 953[2]. [1] — https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc811 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc811 [2] - https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc953 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc953
- kingcharles 5y agoTIL the Internet once ran on a shared text file. "This data base is an extension of the old ARPANET Hosts.txt file, and is being maintained by the NIC to provide continuity during the transition and expansion to the internet environment."
- Svperstar 5y agoWhen I got online in 1996-1997 there was some website that played with font sizing and graphics to make the biggest Fuck on the internet. Like it would take a couple minutes to scroll on an old 640x480 monitor. Good times lol.
- greyface- 5y agohttp://www.links.net/webpub/domains.html http://www.links.net/webpub/domains.html says: > It used to be free, now you have to pay $50 a year for the priviledge ofyour own address. Some people aren't standing for it, Refuse to Pay!. The "Refuse to Pay!" link 404s, but is present in the Wayback Machine, and is an amusing read: https://web.archive.org/web/19970606222403/www.alaska.net/~nlis/refuse/ https://web.archive.org/web/19970606222403/www.alaska.net/~n...
- thesuitonym 5y agoImagine if registration had stayed free, there'd be no domain squatters, and that cool idea you had that only works if the domain is available would be possible!
- jliptzin 5y agoIf registration were free one guy would write a script to register every possible domain and no one would be able to get one without buying it off of him.
- stychos 5y agoEasy to handle, just use the rules of that time — single domain for single IP. Not applicable to v6 and dyndnses, but something like this can solve it.
- 542458 5y agoThat seems like it would only further incentivize a problem we have today - wastefully holding a bunch of IPV4 addresses that you have no need for. IMO the .com domain name fees are… acceptable. It’s similar to how we deal with scarce resources in almost every other domain. The only real improvement I can think of would be some sort of LVT-like-system where high-value domains (dictionary words, short domains) would cost more than low-value ones (robertospizzaottawa.com) to discourage camping.
- pwned1 5y agoI see that diarrhea.com is still owned by P&G.
- petre 5y agoThey probably sell antidiarrheals and just had to own it.
- dhosek 5y agoI lost quixote.com (which I'd had since domain registrations were free) to a missed renewal while I was in grad school. To add insult to injury, the ultimate owner of the domain name had a parking lot filled with trucks with quixote.com painted on the side that I had to drive past every day on my way to the university.
- solarkraft 5y agoAt least they did something with it. One of my domain names has been on sale for 10.000$ by a squatter for a few years after a billing issue.
- donmcronald 5y agoThat would bother me too since they're only buying it to resell. Over a decade ago I emailed a domainer/squatter to ask about a domain that matches my sister's married surname. It was the ccTLD version, not even the .com. At the time, they told me they didn't accept offers of less than $2k, so I offered them $100 as an insult and forgot about it. 8 years later I get a random email asking me if I'm still interested in the domain. Lol. I check it every once in a while. Last year they wanted $8k. This year they want $10k. Holding it for 20 years (literally) has only costed them about $200 I think, so there's not much downside if you're rich and can afford to buy in bulk with the possibility of making 50x profit at times. It's too bad there aren't any great solutions to eliminate domain squatting like that.
- sshine 5y agoThere is. Adding a massive amount of TLDs. I’ve wanted my family name ccTLD, but it’s been occupied by a gospel choir. Fortunately there are hundreds to choose from now.
- NetOpWibby 5y agoA project called Handshake[0] may be of interest to you. Namebase[1] is a popular on-ramp but you could also obtain your own TLDs via a desktop wallet[2]. There’s even a lightweight resolver[3] to access Handshake domains. The project is slowly gaining traction, what with Namecheap and Porkbun getting in on it too. - [0]: https://handshake.org https://handshake.org - [1]: https://namebase.io https://namebase.io - [2]: https://bobwallet.io https://bobwallet.io - [3]: https://impervious.com/fingertip https://impervious.com/fingertip
- SV_BubbleTime 5y ago> fuck is a powerful word, we intend to use it as a web domain for a powerful press Fuck.com now goes to some probably-scam sexy singles chat site. Die a hero or live long enough to see yourself a villain etc etc.
- incanus77 5y agoAround 1999, I had crot.ch and offered a small webmail service (and used the address for LinuxWorld registration) on the 'my' subdomain. I gave it up after a while when it became increasingly tedious to walk into my bank and request a wire transfer to the Swiss NIC to pay renewals.
- beckman466 5y agoThe hottest place to...
- suyash 5y agoI love the simplicity of this website, good old days!
- kazinator 5y ago> Justin, my friend - is this domain really necessary? or are you just pushing the envelope? LOL, that's an interaction style you won't see today from the faceless domain registration dickheads. (Not exactly, Sir; I'm more like fucking the envelope ...)
- brycemice 5y agothis reminds of a recent story I heard about on my favorite podcast (last podcast on the left - true crime, ufo, conspiracy, something for everyone) about an Aussie with the legit last name of assman, he was denied for a license plate with basically the exact same response as the one you see in these comms.
- fortran77 5y agoThere was some dirty business going on here. Several dozen people wanted to register domains that were arbitrarily deemed to be inappropriate. When the policy changed, they weren't offered to the first person who made the request, but to users that were hand-picked by the powers-that-be.
- Yawnzy 5y agoI remember there was a cartoon robot named “Fucko”
- muzani 5y ago"2. Complete Domain Name:fuck.com 3a. Organization name:Yer Mama Net Productions" Ahh the good early days of technology.
- hermitsings 5y agoI was afraid. Opened in a private window. P.S - I know they still track me.
- BeFlatXIII 5y agoMay we all reminisce on typing in random words and then appending .com or .net to see where it would take you (and if the school's internet filter would block it, in which case you'd note to look it up at the public library later)?
- sintezcs 5y agoI successfully registered х%йпи%даджигурда.рф when Cyrillic .рф zone opened. Unfortunately, it was shut down a couple of months later by the registrar, but it was live for at least those couple of months :)