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HitGub.com
- insteadof 14y agoWhat's so special? It just redirects to Bitbucket.
- arcatek 14y agoIt redirects to Github, here.
- daurnimator 14y agohuh? redirects to github for me. Though the initials hg make me hope it went to a mercurial host.
- foolme 14y agoThat's weird, it redirects to Bitbucket for me too.
- infogulch 14y agoYou guys were just trolled.
- khakionion 14y agotimes like this, i wish i could like a comment. :)
- rco8786 14y agoI can't believe so many people fell for this.
- alexjeffrey 14y agothis is quite cool, and it's good to see that github parks its own typos - I've seen far too many "What you need when you need it" landing pages from getting a letter wrong while typing a domain.
- hoov 14y agoYou sure that it's actually owned by GitHub? github.com shows that it's registered through GoDaddy. hitgub.com is registered via namecheap, and has its contacts hidden.
- alexjeffrey 14y agoFair point; I assumed it was given it redirects to github.com.
- akulbe 14y agoOne possible scenario: GitHub may have been young, foolish, and naive, and originally registered their domain with GoDaddy. Then they woke up and realized what a STEAMING PILE GoDaddy is as a company, and corrected the error of their ways for their other domains. :) Just my random $.02 :)
- goldfeld 14y agoNow Joe will create a domain service that offers to register all the typos surrounding your startup brand at a discounted price and automatically sets up these cool transitions using some clever Hamming distance stuff. Or just licenses the tech from SRI. Luckily for Joe the market is huge for this, just look at the names in the latest YC batch. We're seeing the full effect of Moore's Law on the ways to mistype the latest trendy app. Joe is going to disrupt the precision address bar typing market. "It's Autocomplete, but for URLs!"
- crabasa 14y agoOP here. I was typing GH into my URL bar and noticed (before I hit enter) that I had typed hitgub.com. I laughed and thought to myself "I should register that!" Then I hit enter, expecting to get an error, and was quite surprised to see that GitHub had beaten me to the punch. Kudos to them for protecting that typo from a domain squatter.
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