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[+] rzzzwilson|5 years ago|reply

I just use the other spelling: gitlab.com .

[+] trashcat|5 years ago|reply

But so many trackers! https://themarkup.org/blacklight?url=gitlab.com

[+] ROARosen|5 years ago|reply

This is truly altruistic for the public benefit, in a way that's hard to find these days.

I'm sure you can sell the domain to GitHub for a pretty penny. Surely, after being on the front page of HN with the hundreds of clicks that will bring....

Which makes me think... Truly altruistic or smart business move?

Either way thanks and good luck!

[+] radicalriddler|5 years ago|reply

Can't they just issue a redirect, either via dns or via nginx to github.com instead of showing the page if it was truly altruistic?

[+] ibraheemdev|5 years ago|reply

I doubt it was created to benefit others, it looks more like a joke to me.

[+] RicoElectrico|5 years ago|reply

I remember that hitgub.com presented an animation which swapped the letters of the logo and redirected to github.com. But whoever owned the domain must have forgotten to renew it and now it serves some generic parked-domain page (without scammy ads, though).

There's a copy archived: http://web.archive.org/web/20130212130417/http://hitgub.com/

[+] andreareina|5 years ago|reply

c.f. http://buttflare.com/

[+] bitwize|5 years ago|reply

Reminds me of https://howdoeshomeopathywork.com

[+] llimos|5 years ago|reply

I love how that site has a PWA manifest. Just in case you want to install it, for looking something up later.

[+] byhemechi|5 years ago|reply

similar: https://vaccineskill.biz/

[+] ChrisArchitect|5 years ago|reply

suspicions about selling it to github (who probably owns it) aside: this is from a long time ago (4-10 years) so don't harp on no HTTPS or redirects heh

[+] ChrisArchitect|5 years ago|reply

confirmed from a guy that this was set up by a random as a joke in 2010 and nothing more to it. A lesson in keeping every domain you own forever and ever haha

[+] ibraheemdev|5 years ago|reply

guthub.com seems to be owned by GitHub.

[+] mastrsushi|5 years ago|reply

Something about the fact that they don't even bother to provide a redirect adds to the charm.

[+] p4l4g4|5 years ago|reply

Nice! Shame it shows 404 when accessing sub directories.

[+] m463|5 years ago|reply

and a 151 byte web page...

[+] PhillyG|5 years ago|reply

8 lines of code total, 9 if you include the empty line at the end. I didn't know you could put so few tags and have it render. No <body> or even <html>, that's quite impressive

[+] ArcMex|5 years ago|reply

Got a good chuckle out of me.

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