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I'm curious as to why/how this post thinks the URL is (companyname.website)? It's obviously from the comic, but I'm curious about the mechanics. edit: derp. th

by frikk 12y ago

I'm curious as to why/how this post thinks the URL is (companyname.website)? It's obviously from the comic, but I'm curious about the mechanics. edit: derp. the url points directly at companyname.website and my Chrome build has a bug that prevented me from seeing that.

abluecloud 12y ago
Because it is? Did you read the comic? It's part of the joke.
- frikk 12y ago
  My Chrome build has a bug that doesn't show the URL when hovering over links. I didn't even realize that it was not pointed directly at xkcd. Doh!
andrewstuart2 12y ago
Did you try typing companyname.website into your browser?
pavel_lishin 12y ago
.website is a new TLD; Randall probably just registered it, and put a redirect to that specific comic.
bostonpete 12y ago
I assume it's a redirect.
nlh 12y ago
I'm mobile right now so can't confirm, but I'm guessing that Randall bought that actual URL and it's serving up a 301/302 redirect to the xkcd site.
javajosh 12y ago
There's a whole bunch of new tlds that are not, as of yet, in common use. 'companyname.website' might have been 'acme.com' 20 years ago (and you'd also have been laughing all the way to the bank, eventually).
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unwind 12y ago
Neat, I didn't notice! I guess xkcd's author has bought it? I tried digging a bit with WHOIS, but didn't see any actual names. It has a DNS A-record pointing at 184.168.221.2, which didn't have much content. Not sure how the forwarding happens, but didn't spend a lot of time on it. Fun!
aselzer 12y ago
dig companyname.website companyname.website. 3217 IN A 184.168.221.2 curl -i -i http://companyname.website http://companyname.website Location: http://xkcd.com http://xkcd.com Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5 X-AspNet-Version: 4.0.30319 X-Powered-By: ASP.NET Yes, it's a redirect. The domain is registered on GoDaddy and uses a domain anonymizer (you can't see who really registered it).
- tessierashpool 12y ago
  xkcd runs on IIS? I haven't seen an IIS header since 1997.
  - aselzer 12y ago
    He probably just created a redirect in the domain host's web interface. Just checked, and xkcd runs lighttpd.
    - tessierashpool 12y ago
      thanks. that makes more sense. probably the registrar uses IIS, then. got a downvote for that, btw. weirdest downvote ever. maybe I upset some hardcore IIS fan or something?
      - libria 12y ago
        According to Netcraft, IIS (Microsoft) has about 27% marketshare, and I occasionally see an ASPX extension every now and then. No good reason you wouldn't see an IIS header, but I don't know why someone would downvote you for not noticing things. [1]http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2015/01/15/january-2015-web-server-survey.html http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2015/01/15/january-2015-we...
        tessierashpool 12y ago
        I don't know either, but they're really into it. I'm in negative numbers on every comment in this subtree. (except, hopefully, this one.)
dceddia 12y ago
As an XKCD comic, I thought this one was just ok, but what made me post it to HN was when I went to check the availability of companyname.website and found out it redirected to the comic :)
- kordless 12y ago
  I get the context, but it's still not that funny.
  - dceddia 12y ago
    I don't think it's really meant to be side-splittingly funny. Just a fun meta sort of thing.
- frikk 12y ago
  oooh. awesome, thank you! I probably should have checked the actual link. I think my Chrome build has a bug where "show url on hover" gets disabled after some time. I guess I can blame my confusion on that ;)
- p4bl0 12y ago
  I did the same thing this morning with the intention of recreating the web page from the first panel of the comic, but someone beat me to it to make this redirection (which have to admit I find less cool than my (and I guess many others) idea).
  - josu 12y ago
    Someone? Didn't Randall do it? I believe that it's part of the joke.
    - p4bl0 12y ago
      Maybe I don't know, the whois info are hidden.
RIMR 12y ago
Because Randall Munroe owns companyname.website specifically so he can point it at this comic. [Yes, you can own a .website domain too!](http://radixregistry.com/dot-website/ http://radixregistry.com/dot-website/)

by frikk 12y ago

abluecloud 12y ago

Because it is? Did you read the comic? It's part of the joke.

frikk 12y ago
My Chrome build has a bug that doesn't show the URL when hovering over links. I didn't even realize that it was not pointed directly at xkcd. Doh!

andrewstuart2 12y ago

Did you try typing companyname.website into your browser?

pavel_lishin 12y ago

.website is a new TLD; Randall probably just registered it, and put a redirect to that specific comic.

bostonpete 12y ago

I assume it's a redirect.

nlh 12y ago

I'm mobile right now so can't confirm, but I'm guessing that Randall bought that actual URL and it's serving up a 301/302 redirect to the xkcd site.

javajosh 12y ago

There's a whole bunch of new tlds that are not, as of yet, in common use. 'companyname.website' might have been 'acme.com' 20 years ago (and you'd also have been laughing all the way to the bank, eventually).

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unwind 12y ago

Neat, I didn't notice! I guess xkcd's author has bought it? I tried digging a bit with WHOIS, but didn't see any actual names. It has a DNS A-record pointing at 184.168.221.2, which didn't have much content. Not sure how the forwarding happens, but didn't spend a lot of time on it. Fun!

aselzer 12y ago

dig companyname.website companyname.website. 3217 IN A 184.168.221.2 curl -i -i http://companyname.website http://companyname.website Location: http://xkcd.com http://xkcd.com Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5 X-AspNet-Version: 4.0.30319 X-Powered-By: ASP.NET Yes, it's a redirect. The domain is registered on GoDaddy and uses a domain anonymizer (you can't see who really registered it).

tessierashpool 12y ago
xkcd runs on IIS? I haven't seen an IIS header since 1997.
- aselzer 12y ago
  He probably just created a redirect in the domain host's web interface. Just checked, and xkcd runs lighttpd.
  - tessierashpool 12y ago
    thanks. that makes more sense. probably the registrar uses IIS, then. got a downvote for that, btw. weirdest downvote ever. maybe I upset some hardcore IIS fan or something?
    - libria 12y ago
      According to Netcraft, IIS (Microsoft) has about 27% marketshare, and I occasionally see an ASPX extension every now and then. No good reason you wouldn't see an IIS header, but I don't know why someone would downvote you for not noticing things. [1]http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2015/01/15/january-2015-web-server-survey.html http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2015/01/15/january-2015-we...
      - tessierashpool 12y ago
        I don't know either, but they're really into it. I'm in negative numbers on every comment in this subtree. (except, hopefully, this one.)

dceddia 12y ago

As an XKCD comic, I thought this one was just ok, but what made me post it to HN was when I went to check the availability of companyname.website and found out it redirected to the comic :)

kordless 12y ago
I get the context, but it's still not that funny.
- dceddia 12y ago
  I don't think it's really meant to be side-splittingly funny. Just a fun meta sort of thing.
frikk 12y ago
oooh. awesome, thank you! I probably should have checked the actual link. I think my Chrome build has a bug where "show url on hover" gets disabled after some time. I guess I can blame my confusion on that ;)
p4bl0 12y ago
I did the same thing this morning with the intention of recreating the web page from the first panel of the comic, but someone beat me to it to make this redirection (which have to admit I find less cool than my (and I guess many others) idea).
- josu 12y ago
  Someone? Didn't Randall do it? I believe that it's part of the joke.
  - p4bl0 12y ago
    Maybe I don't know, the whois info are hidden.

RIMR 12y ago

Because Randall Munroe owns companyname.website specifically so he can point it at this comic. [Yes, you can own a .website domain too!](http://radixregistry.com/dot-website/ http://radixregistry.com/dot-website/)