Wanna free web domain for a year? Hey, it's not rocket .science

Tuesday 24th February 2015 20:01 GMT Christoph

Bother!

mad.science has already gone

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1. Tuesday 24th February 2015 20:09 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  Re: Bother!
  
  boffin.science is available
  
  Surely the Special Projects Bureau would be interested?
  
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  1. Tuesday 24th February 2015 21:12 GMT diodesign
    
    Re: Bother!
    
    Yoink! We were born for this gTLD combo.
    
    C.
    
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Tuesday 24th February 2015 20:07 GMT Swarthy

homeopathy.science is taken.. I thought for sure that would break something.

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1. Tuesday 24th February 2015 20:10 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  My first thought was creationist.science but I like your thinking!
  
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2. Wednesday 25th February 2015 01:02 GMT Ken Y-N
  
  Fortunately, http://homeopathyisnot.science is still there!
  
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Tuesday 24th February 2015 20:12 GMT Swarthy

As I write this

I see xkcd.science is still available.. Someone want to let Mr. Munroe know to grab it?

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Tuesday 24th February 2015 20:18 GMT Destroy All Monsters

Potato

Get aperture.science then install a portal on it!

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1. Tuesday 24th February 2015 21:17 GMT foo_bar_baz
  
  Re: Potato
  
  crowbar.science was gone too :)
  
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Tuesday 24th February 2015 20:20 GMT Mark 85

I'll be curious to see who grabs trick-cyclist.science.

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Tuesday 24th February 2015 20:30 GMT StephenH

sheblindedmewith.science is taken

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2. Tuesday 10th March 2015 15:54 GMT Scott Pedigo
  
  sheblindedmewith.science is now being shown as "available", as a "premium" domain, with a "Make An Offer" button. So domain squatter hoping to cash in. What a surprise.
  
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Tuesday 24th February 2015 21:08 GMT Anonymous Coward

Tried to get womenin.science, but I doubt I'll get many visitors.

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Tuesday 24th February 2015 23:12 GMT Havin_it

Root down

Hoped I'd be in time to bag dropping.science for my Beastie Boys fan site, but it looks like those pesky coprologists beat me to the punch again.

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1. Wednesday 25th February 2015 01:38 GMT xperroni
  
  Re: Root down
  
  Well, sh!t.
  
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Wednesday 25th February 2015 09:05 GMT DavCrav

I know this is all a bit of a laugh, but is any actual science going to really be on .science? I seriously doubt any actual scientists will bother with it because they have real stuff to do. Leaving only the...interesting...people like this dude:

http://www.jainmathemagics.com/default.asp

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Wednesday 25th February 2015 09:42 GMT Groaning Ninny

Everything I've tried so far is gone :-(

Even things like: redfgrgrnot.science and ngvjtmbjimrftyhtt.science

- apparently more than three people are looking at these right now.

So, was it a scam or real?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bait-and-switch

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1. Wednesday 25th February 2015 13:13 GMT Christoph
  
  Maybe they wanted to see what is most popular so they can charge more for them or reserve them?
  
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Wednesday 25th February 2015 09:48 GMT Ben Bonsall

Omni.science is gone :(

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Wednesday 25th February 2015 10:05 GMT Anonymous Coward

ehhh

dfg4rfdsdkj35nbs.science

is unavailable

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Wednesday 25th February 2015 13:47 GMT DreadPirateRobot

Because they are free I expect the random strings will be being snapped up to be used as C&C DNS addresses. I can see that leading to some network security bods just blanket banning *.science in a few months.

However, chemtrails.science is free - anyone want to put a static page saying "Chemtrails = Contrails. Deal with it." up? Not in the mood to create another login for anywhere today.

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Wednesday 25th February 2015 13:52 GMT Faye B

Got One

Yay, I managed to get FABakerBooks.science for my book website domain. Now I can put up my book The Search For Cern on my new website. Hopefully it will be a bit better than my WIX website http://fayeb767.wix.com/fabakerbooks

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Thursday 26th February 2015 12:28 GMT Corp-Rat

Oh Dear!

It would seem they didn't put enough science into their server design, looks like the site has gone down.

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Friday 10th April 2015 13:13 GMT Phuq Witt

2 months later...

10th April: Somehow I managed to click on this article today, thinking it was a current one and registered a silly domain, 'for a laff'.

Several hours later, my account is still showing as "Pending Payment" on alpnames website. In fact I've now paid them twice, as I thought at first PayPal might have screwed up, as I was using it on mobile. So sent payment through again from my laptop. Both payments are marked as 'completed' on PayPal, but no movement from alpnames [or response from their support people].

OK. So it's only a piddling 35p [twice]. But 35p from several thousand people would amount to a tidy sum, so I'm starting to wonder is this a scam.

Did anyone else play the dot-science game and, if so, did you ever get your hands on your domain?

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