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Remember when the .tk TLD became free 20 years ago ? Every hobbyist took one, then scammers followed, then Facebook and antiviruses started blocking it. I reme
by goldenarm 4mo ago
Remember when the .tk TLD became free 20 years ago ? Every hobbyist took one, then scammers followed, then Facebook and antiviruses started blocking it.
I remember publishing a website for a class on my .tk domain, the teacher couldn't open it and I almost got a failing grade because of it.
- paxcoder 4mo ago>One Person, One Subdomain
- singpolyma3 4mo agoIndeed. That's the necessary
- HumanCCF 4mo agoYes, one of the key principles we follow is that all the perks we aim to provide must come with some limit to prevent abuse.
- AFF87 4mo agoWhat a memory you have unlocked. They were everywhere. I remember the urban legend that .tk domains were X% of their GDP
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- captn3m0 4mo ago10% apparently for .tk. I also remember .tv windfall, which is 8-9% of their GDP.
- tyre 4mo agoAnd the .sy boom until startups got enough heat for, you know, funding the Assad regime.
- RobotToaster 4mo agoApparently nobody cares that .af is now funding the Taliban
- yieldcrv 4mo agoThe terms of using that tld say it must comply with Sharia law pretty strict and apparently the Minister of that agency doesnt care that .af is a domain hack for “as fuck” in the west
- aussieguy1234 4mo agoIn other words, he doesn't give a fuck
- rezonant 4mo agoyeah it was right there
- foxylad 4mo agoPerhaps he does - dontgive.af does not resolve.
- ShinyLeftPad 4mo ago1. Be Sharia law 2. Sell domain name that's against Sharia law 3. Retake it back when someone buys it, because it's against the law 4. Repeat and profit
- Gagarin1917 4mo agoWhat website/service actually uses that?
- preisschild 4mo agoCore memory unlocked Not enough allowance to fund a .com domain, had to use freenom / tk + cloudflare for my first years of self hosting
- cj 4mo agoDouble unlock. In the mid 2000’s, I moderated a domain name discussion forum in exchange for free hosting. “X forum posts per month = x gb of bandwidth” My goal was to post enough for them to give me WHM access so I could try to resell it. Those were the days.
- dinkleberg 4mo agoThose were the days indeed. A big part for me is probably because I was a teen at the time with little responsibility, but getting to be a part of the wild west days of the internet was a magical experience.
- cj 4mo agoMagical indeed! I once mailed $70 cash (multiple months of allowance) to someone to code a MVP of something I wanted to build. They ripped me off and disappeared. And… that’s when I decided I needed to learn to code!
- s-skl 4mo agoSomewhere out there is a developer telling this exact same story. ‘I once agreed to build an MVP for a kid who promised to mail me cash. Never showed up. And THAT’S when I decided to get a real job.’
- cj 4mo agoExcept I mailed the cash in advance! It’s okay, it was probably another 14 year old. My parents were not happy when I told them I sent cash to a stranger. I remember having to do it in secret because they were very not okay with the idea that you can meet strangers online. Hah.
- tamimio 4mo agotk and cc, the domains i used to use for php reverse shell haha, bring back memories!
- DonHopkins 4mo agoAt least https://tcl.tk https://tcl.tk redirects => https://www.tcl-lang.org/ https://www.tcl-lang.org/
- Peacefulz 4mo agoI was hoping to see the classic doctor redirect banner when I hit that link. Still so very cool that they kept their domain active this whole time!
- mghackerlady 4mo agothat's the first thing I thought of when I saw .tk. I may just be too tclish, however
- mort96 4mo agoA friend almost failed an IT class because his website didn't render at all in IE6. This was during the time of IE9. The teacher just hadn't updated their browser in a long time. I don't get how you get to be an IT teacher without knowing the most basic troubleshooting steps to get assignments to run.
- Cpoll 4mo agoI had a similar class where they threatened to fail us if we didn't use Dreamweaver and instead wrote our own html.
- arsenicwater 4mo agoWere they paying for the Dreamweaver licenses?
- nekusar 4mo agoPlease. Universities have students by the short and curlies. They can academically do basically whatever they want, and fail you for not complying. Professors can even demand their book be purchased, and fail for not buying the book. Most universities are unethical shitholes that can do basically whatever they want to gatekeep a diploma.
- glenstein 4mo agoI remember that. The one thing I would add is I think the usage was much more general purpose. "Free stuff" sites were a big deal and huge source of traffic and .tk was widely shared on those. You could have a banner with ads and have the domain for free.
- znpy 4mo agoI still have a .tk domain, paid since 2008, because it was the only one with my surname available. Haven’t had much issues but surely if could go back and i’d pick a different tld.
- victorbjorklund 4mo agoRIP .tk. Those were the days.
- southforgeai 4mo agoWow this brought back a flood of memories. I'll never forget spinning up lycos and geocity sites with .tk domains
- cellu 4mo agothose were the days!!
- lightningspirit 4mo agoAnd then everybody left, yeah, I remember this exactly.