Dat domain name.

Yeah, stop those cute domain names. I never got the memo on Youtu.be, I just had “learn” it was okay. Of course people started to let their guard down because dumbasses started to get cute.

We all did dodge a bullet because we’ve been installing stuff from NPM with reckless abandon for awhile.

Can anyone give me a reason why this wouldn’t happen in other ecosystems like Python, because I really don’t feel comfortable if I’m scared to download the most basic of packages. Everything is trust.

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1-more 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

of all people my mortgage servicer is the worst about this. Your login is valid on like 3 different top level domains and you get bounced between them when you sign in, eventually going from servicer.com to myservicer.com to servicer.otherthing.com! It's as though they were training you to not care about domain names.

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wzamqo 4 days ago | parent [-]

Paying US taxes online is just as bad. The official way to pay tax balances with a debit card online is to use officialpayments[.]com. This is what the IRS advises you to use. Our industry is a clown factory.

	▲	LorenDB 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Wells Fargo apparently emails from epay@onlinemyaccounts[.]com.

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jvdvegt 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What about aka.ms, which is a valid domain for Microsoft. Why didn't they use microsoft.com, or windows.com? I always wonder if this aka is short for 'also known as'.

	▲	dymk 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		They use that domain name because it’s used for short links

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