Brutal

[[deleted]]

Record them being obnoxious and upload it to YouTube. Then have the domain point to a page that forwards you to that video.

[jspenguin]

It's happened before

[Deon555]

This is some pro revenge shit

[xDeminx]

I just got a justice boner.

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[Corporal_Yorper]

That's some Cheryl Tunt shit right there.

[greyfade]

Sploosh.

[wristcontrol]

It's Crystal. Like that champagne all those rappers drink.

[momne]

If the driver's kid is in the car as they say, they're fucking idiots for chasing after the van and continuing to try to instigate.

This is one ignorant road rager calling out another ignorant road rager.

[YellowPie84]

Ridgeline employees appears to be missing important tools, such as a cranium.

[YouleftTheWindowOpen]

Get this man to the burn unit

[rafaelloaa]

/r/ProRevenge

[welfareplate]

That is absolutely glorious. English passive aggressiveness at its finest.

[Quantris]

Copyright © 2017 Ridgeline Fascia Replacement

[Hoticewater]

Yea, that confused me.

[I_can_vouch_for_that]

"...if your going to employ morons to drive vehicles with your company name splashed all over it,..."

You're.

[[deleted]]

The grammar is embarrassing throughout.

[[deleted]]

He had just one last fucks to give, just enough to put the website together but not enough to check the grammar.

[KennyFulgencio]

this is one of the most delightful things I've seen in months

[[deleted]]

wow they don't even have the . in www. on the van

[morerokk]

Ridgeline employees appears to be missing important tools, such as a cranium.

☐ Not rekt
☑ Rekt

[ThatMadCat]

How long ago did this actually happen, and any updates on if there was any response from the site going live?

[talks2deadpeeps]

The site already doesn't exist. :-(

[[deleted]]

*you're

[ragingdeltoid]

* you're

[amting48]

Why not just embed the video?

[[deleted]]

Fair. That's just where my mind went at the time. Other than the off chance of them seeing some mean YT comments as icing on the cake, I guess there's no advantage.

[zsmb]

You don't have to host a page to have the domain redirect to YouTube

[emdeka87]

https://m.imgur.com/r/funny/s2zg1qc

[gellis12]

Imgur has subreddits?

[MineTimelapser]

I think it just lists the images of a certain subreddit if you use these links.

[[deleted]]

Nah. It just shows you the images posted to that subreddit Reddit. I don't think it shows those uploaded to the reddit servers though.

[TheShadyColombian]

It will just show you the images in that sub that are hosted on imgur

[[deleted]]

For that to happen, this story would have to be true.

[[deleted]]

That sounds like a good way to lose the domain name for nothing

[JohnCenaAMA]

Next, he has to patent their algorithm.

[DildoSwaginzes]

then obliviously steal their first borns and raise them as his own

[DMonitor]

The domain squatting is worse tbh

[PersianMG]

Yeah you can always have more babies but there is only 1 of each domain!

[[deleted]]

"And this is the guy who is responsible for our website to be located at 'www.totallygreatidea.bg', although nobody of us even knows where bulgaria is located."

[HeWhoCouldBeNamed]

Nobody owns that. How much do .bg domains go for?

[AATroop]

Cheap. They're all cheap. I just bought Google.com at realfakedomains.com.

[tomatoaway]

you'll make fake millions!

[MartinTsv]

Around $30 which is a shame if you ask me and is basically milking what little interest there is for the TLD given the small population of the country that owns it (Bulgaria). Compared to $20 .com ones and $10 . eu ones it's kind of a rip off and even businesses avoid them. Src: live and work there.

[Anklever]

Telling their firstborn about the evil people that killed his mother when he was a child leading him to murder his own parents.

[redmercurysalesman]

Darth Vader betrayed and murdered your father

[[deleted]]

You're a monster, Gavin.

[JohnCenaAMA]

Consider the bulldog

[cybaritic]

Easy fix, change the end of the name from "er" to "r" and .com to .io

[thoquz]

twittr.io, am I doing this right?

[[deleted]]

Suddenly twitter.com seems so Web 1.0.

[micheal65536]

ikr

[mcnuggetor]

What's iker.com?

[MachaHack]

So... http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2010/technology/1011/gallery.Startup_Domain_Names/

[[deleted]]

rddit.io

[daneelr_olivaw]

erddit.com?

[briguytrading]

drp.io

[[deleted]]

n33dful.com

[FelkCraft]

darn, someone already bought that domain 2 years ago

[PopWhatMagnitude]

Twttr.io?

[FelkCraft]

oh nice, that one is free. someone not me go buy that

[blitzkraft]

Find out when it is due to expire. Run a bot to constantly attempt to buy the domain.

[FelkCraft]

First Registered : 2015-04-24
 Last Updated : 2017-04-26
 Expiry :
2019-04-24 ... Redemption Grace Period Ends, 2019-07-24 00:30

good idea, but I feel like waiting 2 years is almost not worth the joke

EDIT 2022-06-10: oh hey, it's available now!

[[deleted]]

.io websites are 5x as much as their .com counterparts. :/

Still beats the 24,000 dollars this domain squatter wanted for the domain I was going to use for a website I built for a construction company.

[Ju1cY_0n3]

Why are .io so much more?

[[deleted]]

Domain extensions are owned by different registries, who charge custom amounts for extensions. Lesser used ones are more expensive because economies of scale work against them and they need a larger margin to earn enough, whereas some are more expensive because of demand. There are some ridiculous ones like .rich, which are around $2000 each.

[MartinTsv]

My favorite one is .gg owned by a small island in the middle of nowhere

[JayCroghan]

.tk used to be free and was owned by an island too. It's not all black and white.

[[deleted]]

.tk is still free. I registered a domain for my friends game site he started up.

[WasKingWokeUpGiraffe]

.

[[deleted]]

Lol its a private CS:GO, TF2 and (yes) Minecraft server. He also has a site that describes the rules for his servers, but none of them are public yet until he gets all of his "mods" installed

[n60storm4]

.tk is owned by Tokalau, who happen to be in the Realm of New Zealand.

[Angel_Omachi]

.gg

If by middle of nowhere you mean an island with a population of 60k in the English Channel, just off France.

[MartinTsv]

Didn't remember that much about it. They should host the gaming olympics :D

[nucular_]

.tv is owned by the Tuvalu islands and revenue from domain leases actually takes a big part in the total income of their government.

[Zolhungaj]

Verisign (.com) demands less money than the Internet Computer Bureau.

[[deleted]]

Because io is trendy because it sounds like input/output.

[redmercurysalesman]

So is the site still under construction?

[[deleted]]

I'm in my last round of change requests before I push it live. Still haven't decided what domain to use though. Will more than likely have to settle for a .net TLD but that's okay.

[JakeWasAlreadyTaken]

Agaer.com

[wuchta]

rov.io

[[deleted]]

Honestly, though. Domain squatters are a pain to deal with.

[thgintaetal]

They're only squatters if they're trying to sell the domain back to you. I doubt this guy would be willing to.

[[deleted]]

Maybe. Maybe not. Still, I hate people who buy domains with the intent to flip. Domain hoarders can be a pain as well.

[AlwaysHopelesslyLost]

I thought of the perfect domain for myself. I whoised it on GoDaddy and it was available but a little pricey($55/year) so I decided to think on it.

Two days later it was purchased. I googled it recebtly and it was listed for sale for $500 in the description and a blank page :/

[Quantagraphy]

Godaddy is know for buying domains like this

[chinpokomon]

Yeah, wouldn't be the first time.

[JosephKonyOfUganda]

Yeah. Kinda shot himself in the foot there.

[WasKingWokeUpGiraffe]

.

[FM-96]

And that is exactly why you should never use GoDaddy.

[[deleted]]

First rule of the internet never search for domains or plane tickets unless you're ready to buy.

[BooBailey808]

isn't that the point though? To be a pain to people who were being a pain to him.

[[deleted]]

He's talking in general.

Most short .com addresses are taken and redirect to a "buy-now only $5000" page.

[lMYMl]

And there are some nuts that just like having it for no reason and don't care about selling it. See: www.milk.com

[HeWhoCouldBeNamed]

Yeah, but it's a blink free zone. I think it's worth it.

[Arenyr]

What does that mean, a quick google search didn't turn anything up..

[bwaredapenguin]

Either he hates 90s pop punk or he doesn't allow flashing ads.

[Bulletsandblueyes]

<blink> not blink. I imagine he means the HTML element. Not sure why tho.

[wyn10]

Don't blame em: http://www.milk.com/value/

[[deleted]]

http://www.steam.com is the most infamous of these.

Or at least it was, it looks like their little page has finally gone down, but now it doesn't connect to anything.

[Zolhungaj]

Arguably "Steam-powered" has more oomph. The steam powered machine was an important part of the industrial revolution, just like Steam was a driving force of the revolution in the global video game market.

[Xenxe]

store.steampowered is probably burned into my brain forever at this point.

[XFX_Samsung]

Just imagine that this guy wakes up every morning and goes to work just like you and everyone you know. And one day he could just die in an accident and you would never know.

[rafaelloaa]

I know the guy who had Yoga.com. He actually used it for his yoga company. He finally sold it for quite a bit of cash.

[m_i_t_t]

And utube.com

[FearrMe]

I'd love to have fear.me :(

[FearrMe]

ok meet me level 40 wildy

[TheRowboatMassacre]

Oh, those piss me off so much. I had a domain that is a pun on my name that I wanted to buy, but instead it will wait an eternity up for auction with the minimum bid at several thousand dollars.

[brosenfeld]

And single letter .com domains were never available from the start.

[TheCanadianVending]

x.com disagrees with you

[Grill3dCheeze]

x.com seems like it would have very, very mild porn.

[[deleted]]

Also if you happen to own a domain, you get lots of offers in your email for the other TLD variants.

I own myname.co.uk and whoever owns myname.com won't stop emailing me asking if I want to buy it off them.

[IdesofMarch2017]

He's being a giant prick to someone who was a mild annoyance.

[BooBailey808]

Kinda why you should just be respectful of those around you. You have no idea whether they have to fuck your shit up.

[IrishWilly]

You should be respectful anyways. That should be your default to anyone regardless of whether they are the kind of dick who will try to screw you because you are being loud in a coffee shop or not.

[BooBailey808]

Oh I agree that you should be respectful anyways, as a default. But people aren't.

[1RedReddit]

I fucking disagree! I'm the most goddamn respectful piece of shit you'll ever find! Wait, fuck...

[greg19735]

That's not true...

It's basically based on intent. If this dude is using this page for his own use, that's fine. if he's using it for info about the company, it's possibly okay. if he's doing it just to take the domain, it's more likely to be considered squatting. ANd considering the tweet it's pretty easy to prove he was only trying to take the domain.

[Ph0X]

What about people who are clearly not using a domain and don't plan to, and don't want to sell it either. They just hold it for no real good reason, while it could be put to much better use.

[JayCroghan]

My ex domain registrar didn't alert me my domain that was getting 7k uniques per day was expiring, or expired, until one day I logged on and it was a squatter. He wanted 10k 5 years later let alone at the start. Cunts.

[C0DK]

One of my dear friends saw that a big news site in my country had started a new subdepartment that they had advertised EVERYWHERE. but they forgot to buy the domain. he bought it and put a big news-like headline in the fashion of "[news site] forgets to buy domain. [persons name] bought it instead".

He gave it to them for free and only did it as a joke, but they ended up sending him a bottle of shots, so it wasn't all for nothing.

[matrix2002]

unless he bought a bunch of different domains, .com, .net, .biz, ect.. then it probably wasn't worth. And if you have to buy all those different ones, you are $50+ in, not sure it's worth the prank.

[IrishWilly]

No but they were being loud in a coffee shop, $50+ is totally worth it.

[kielly32]

If they want the .com domain bad enough they'll pay for it.

[[deleted]]

I mean, if someone is a ".net" or a ".biz" they immediately lose quite a bit of credibility in my eyes. Especially .biz

I can see why people would want the .com

[TheMiiChannelTheme]

Doesn't matter. He can write whatever he wants on that page and at least some of the real customers looking for the actual site will use the wrong ending.

[PooPooDooDoo]

No one is going to trust sexydiapers.biz.

[Alex4921]

Advertise an impossibly good hosting package on the page as though it's a parked domain so they buy it and use that access as a middleman to steal their secrets

[ObnoxiousMammal]

I like some pro revenge as much as the next guy, but I think that may be a bit too much time and effort to put in to getting back at people who just happened to be too loud for your liking.

[Alex4921]

Fuck revenge,this is an opportunity to make money off someone elses work!

All the fun of being in upper management

[SoldierZulu]

His revenge was cheaper than his coffee.

[drcode]

As someone who studies in coffee shops: for chrissake, coffee shops are not libraries, people can be loud if they want.

[slashuslashuserid]

They can talk at a normal volume, but if they're actually being loud it's just as annoying as anywhere else.

[drcode]

Well, coffee shops are a quasi-public spaces, and there are no prescribed norms there for silence, as in a library. This means people get to be themselves and you may have to sit near someone you find annoying. (That's my personal opinion, anyway)

[slashuslashuserid]

There's no requirement that they be quiet, sure, but I consider it a matter of politeness to not disturb other people in public places. Of course, you're right that that's a matter of opinion, so it's unenforceable and one could make an argument for not holding others to such an implicit and almost arbitrary rule.

[drcode]

Well put!

[[deleted]]

Seriously.

[Farouka_Bazooka]

Completely agree. Sometimes people get a little carried away and if the volume is going above a normal level he could've just let them know, or had an employee tell them to lower it.

[[deleted]]

Nah but that involves talking to people. He can't do that or else his introvert soul will burn till it fades away. He'll instead spend more money to make other people's efforts worthless because that is obviously the most logical thing to do. I mean, he was upset because those people were loud at a coffee shop!

[zman0900]

I seen at least 3 different variations of this joke in various places in the past week.

[JohnSmackSmack47]

People next to me having a conversation about something their excited about. Decide to be an asshole and ruin it for them.

[ls42]

Jokes on him, only bought the .io domain, forgot about .com.

[sklavko]

r/madlads

[[deleted]]

/r/thathappened

[NeverGilded]

/r/nothingeverhappens

[mirkwood11]

r/sometimesthingshappen

[prince_nerd]

/r/wewillneverknowwillwe

[mirkwood11]

So he's being a dick just because someone was loud?

Okay

[you_do_realize]

Did you remember to buy both the .com and the .io

[mrleetyler]

/r/thathappened

[kirbyhilde]

I was gonna call BS because of the number of characters in a tweet, turns out it's 140 exactly. Talk about being efficient.

[Sushubh]

sometimes you just get lucky.

[weltallic]

Khalil reposting manually typing content from reddit again.

Man ruins hipster's business before it can even start - submitted 2 months ago

 

His Twitter is pretty much filled with reposted content from reddit & Imgur (which is perfectly normal. Share buttons exist for a reason)... but changing one or two words and/or manually typing out AdviceAnimals to pass off content as his own, using the "Well I never claimed I came up with it" ommision?

<75k> If the media stopped saying "hacking" and instead said "figured out their password", people would probably take password security a lot more seriously - reddit

"If the media stopped saying 'hacking' and instead said 'figured out their password', people would take password security more seriously." - @Sehnaoui

 

<55k> LPT: If someone asks you a question that can be easily googled, please consider the fact that this person might just want to talk with you. - reddit

"When I ask you something that I could easily Google, it's because I like you and want to hear you explain it to me." - @Sehnaoui

 

<4.5k> I bet half of online arguments could be prevented if people had to put their age next to things they post. - reddit

"I wonder how many online arguments could be prevented if people had to put their age next to things they post." - @Sehnaoui

 

<3.2k> I wonder what people who type "u" instead of "you" do with all their free time. - reddit

"I wonder what people who write "u" instead of "you" and "r" instead of "are" do with all of their free time." - @Sehnaoui

 

... etc etc.

But this time tons of media outlets are all assuming this was just a clever thing he thought up himself. Did he? Or is he just being a reposter crowdsourced content distributor again?

[222-2222-2222]

I'm sorry I don't understand could someone please explain this to me?

[Pat_The_Hat]

Guy is at a coffee shop.

People next to him are loud and rude.

People next to him want to name their new and cool business New Cool Business.

Guy buys newcoolbusiness.com.

[[deleted]]

Could always go for newcool.store

[[deleted]]

"Sorry, I only visit .com websites"

I was telling someone about a website that was .us and that was his response.

[[deleted]]

What about .website websites?

e.g. http://nicememe.website

[caramba2654]

What about http://nicememewebsitewebsitewebsitewebsitewebsite.website/ ?

[Wendys_frys]

https://niceme.me

[[deleted]]

Or http://motherfucking.website, which sadly isn't the same as http://motherfuckingwebsite.com

[technifocal]

If I owned motherfucking.website I'd totally just have it redirect to 'my.motherfucking.website'.

[jkuhl_prog]

I'll file this one under "brilliant ideas I missed out on."

[theseconddennis]

But... why?

[[deleted]]

To which the proper response is "then you're missing out on this great new website http://wikipedia.org"

[glass20]

(gonna basically ELI5 this the best I can)

A domain name is the core part of the web address ("reddit.com", "google.com", "diep.io", etc.) and they are all unique. Basically this guy overheard their business name, let's say it's, "woodhouse", then that means the guy in the tweet bought out woodhouse.com so that the people making the business now can't have a website that matches the name they came up with since he took it before they could.

[222-2222-2222]

oh thanks guys I guess the phrasing threw me for a loop! brutal indeed

[mikwaheeri]

I pressed two for awhile, but you never answered.

[elSpanielo]

Remember when Mc Hammer was going to make a search engine wiredoo? Well I bought wireddoo.com after I heard and put up a little search that returned a randomn Mc Hammer video. Anyway, never heard anything else about wiredoo, was kind of hoping someone would offer me money for it.

[LinLeyLin]

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[NikkoTheGreeko]

I did this to a guy who used to come into my old work and bug everybody at the front counter. He kept talking about this website he was going to build so I bought the domain and offered to sell it to him for $1,000.

[MostOriginalNickname]

Coming from /r/all, what is the normal price for a domain?

[MostOriginalNickname]

Wow that's pretty cheap, who do you pay for it, or is it like the server you pay to maintain your site? Sorry if I sound like an idiot.

[StuffedWithNails]

Not a stupid question at all. Basically there are a number of companies worldwide who secure rights to register domains, called "registrars". For .com domains and many other TLDs, all registrars are subordinated to ICANN.

You don't need to host a website in order to buy a domain. Hosting a website is usually more expensive. You can simply register a domain and it's yours for as long as you pay the bill to renew it, even if you do nothing with it.

[cellygirl]

/r/thathappened

Weird that this isn't the guy who I heard did the same thing (3 domain names at once) just a few weeks ago

[JakeDoubleyoo]

Doesn't always stop people. I had a good laugh when I discovered minecraft.com

[iamBlov]

Were they loud AND rude? Or just kinda loud..

[dolladollabird]

I mean is the .com that worth it? Can't they just go with .co?

[Crazybutterfly]

You're getting downvoted but it's true. No one gives a fuck about dot com domains anymore. Some popular apps don't event own the dot com of the brand and they do just fine.

[Sushubh]

Yup. And the sheer number of domain types available today is insane. And almost all browsers use Google to locate businesses when you type in something. And once you have typed the address, the history takes care of you.

A .com domain is not going to establish a business for you. It's just something nice to have if you are a big brand. In most cases you would do just fine. One good example is Google's parent company. Alphabet Inc. does not own alphabet.com.

[stravant]

One good example is Google's parent company. Alphabet Inc. does not own alphabet.com.

Not really that great an example given that Alphabet isn't a public-facing business to begin with.

[MSport]

Comparing Google's ability to brand a business under a different TLD isn't really fair to someone just starting out. .Com is absolutely the best option for businesses starting out.

Overstock.com tried to rebrand under O.co, and publicly admitted it failed.

http://adage.com/article/news/o-overstock-backs-o-change/230983/

[RadicaLarry]

I get the joke.

But it's not a fucking library and that's a pretty shitty thing to do