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Beside the point but the cursor tracking javascript clock thing on wormhole.com is pretty impressive / mesmerizing. I haven't seen anything like that before.

Beside the point but the cursor tracking javascript clock thing on wormhole.com is pretty impressive / mesmerizing. I haven't seen anything like that before. The article doesn't seem like a terribly big deal to me. I think both parties are being obnoxious. Essentially squatting on a nice domain name, asking an exorbitant sum for it, and renegotiating after a deal is accepted because you think you "left money on the table" are all obnoxious behaviors. Suing someone over what was never a terribly firm or serious offer also seems obnoxious.

kadoban 5y ago
The domain owner is _using_ the domain. There's a site there, and it's been their email address for decades. That's not squatting just because someone with money wants it.
- ALittleLight 5y ago
  The website is basically an image of a wormhole. The owner is using the domain for an email address, but I imagine they could reach an agreement where he kept the email address(es). Maybe squatting isn't exactly right, because he's not trying to sell it, but it seems closer to squatting than using it to me.
  - packetslave 5y ago
    He would be well within his rights to host no website at all on the domain. Using it solely for email is 100% "using the domain". Period. The end. Not squatting. Just became some crypto bros want the domain does not change that.
    - ALittleLight 5y ago
      First, owning a valuable domain that you don't use is basically the definition of squatting. Second, I never wrote that it was outside of his "rights", I wrote that it was obnoxious.
      - Wowfunhappy 5y ago
        > First, owning a valuable domain that you don't use is basically the definition of squatting. But he is using it. For email. It's just an MX record instead of an A record.
      - LocalH 5y ago
        Say you buy a shed. However, you never get around to using it. So you’re squatting on that shed, and I demand you relinquish it to someone who will make more use of it.
        btheshoe 5y ago
        Yes, that's how it should work
        LocalH 5y ago
        Do you feel that nobody should own anything that they're not actively using, and that such things should be removed from their possession?
        kadoban 5y ago
        What about if someone with more expensive tools than yours wants it? Do you just give it up?
  - resoluteteeth 5y ago
    Do you think that for any given domain, if there's someone who can make better use of that domain than the current owner, they should be allowed to take it? For example, soup.com is just a redirect to https://www.liptonkitchens.com/ https://www.liptonkitchens.com/ right now, without any specific content of its own, so they're using it even less than this person is using wormhole.com, since he's using it for his email address. If I am prepared to start an actual soup related blog should lipton be forced to give the domain to me?
puffoflogic 5y ago
I recall doing something similar (text following cursor on a delay) as an exercise in a "learn javascript programming" book about 20-15 years ago. The clever bit here is the text being dynamic, like a clock, but I doubt it's an entirely unique idea and more of an evolution of the idea from the exercise. This use of javascript seemed quite clever and important back then; you had to be there.

kadoban 5y ago

The domain owner is _using_ the domain. There's a site there, and it's been their email address for decades. That's not squatting just because someone with money wants it.

ALittleLight 5y ago
The website is basically an image of a wormhole. The owner is using the domain for an email address, but I imagine they could reach an agreement where he kept the email address(es). Maybe squatting isn't exactly right, because he's not trying to sell it, but it seems closer to squatting than using it to me.
- packetslave 5y ago
  He would be well within his rights to host no website at all on the domain. Using it solely for email is 100% "using the domain". Period. The end. Not squatting. Just became some crypto bros want the domain does not change that.
  - ALittleLight 5y ago
    First, owning a valuable domain that you don't use is basically the definition of squatting. Second, I never wrote that it was outside of his "rights", I wrote that it was obnoxious.
    - Wowfunhappy 5y ago
      > First, owning a valuable domain that you don't use is basically the definition of squatting. But he is using it. For email. It's just an MX record instead of an A record.
    - LocalH 5y ago
      Say you buy a shed. However, you never get around to using it. So you’re squatting on that shed, and I demand you relinquish it to someone who will make more use of it.
      - btheshoe 5y ago
        Yes, that's how it should work
        LocalH 5y ago
        Do you feel that nobody should own anything that they're not actively using, and that such things should be removed from their possession?
        kadoban 5y ago
        What about if someone with more expensive tools than yours wants it? Do you just give it up?
- resoluteteeth 5y ago
  Do you think that for any given domain, if there's someone who can make better use of that domain than the current owner, they should be allowed to take it? For example, soup.com is just a redirect to https://www.liptonkitchens.com/ https://www.liptonkitchens.com/ right now, without any specific content of its own, so they're using it even less than this person is using wormhole.com, since he's using it for his email address. If I am prepared to start an actual soup related blog should lipton be forced to give the domain to me?

puffoflogic 5y ago

I recall doing something similar (text following cursor on a delay) as an exercise in a "learn javascript programming" book about 20-15 years ago. The clever bit here is the text being dynamic, like a clock, but I doubt it's an entirely unique idea and more of an evolution of the idea from the exercise. This use of javascript seemed quite clever and important back then; you had to be there.