HitGub.com(hitgub.com)

35 pointsby crabasavor 13 Jahren13 comments

http://hitgub.com

5 comments

goldfeldvor 13 Jahren

Now Joe will create a domain service that offers to register all the typos surrounding your startup brand at a discounted price and automatically sets up these cool transitions using some clever Hamming distance stuff. Or just licenses the tech from SRI. Luckily for Joe the market is huge for this, just look at the names in the latest YC batch. We're seeing the full effect of Moore's Law on the ways to mistype the latest trendy app.

Joe is going to disrupt the precision address bar typing market. "It's Autocomplete, but for URLs!"

insteadofvor 13 Jahren

What's so special? It just redirects to Bitbucket.

rco8786vor 13 Jahren

I can't believe so many people fell for this.

infogulchvor 13 Jahren

You guys were just trolled.

daurnimatorvor 13 Jahren

huh? redirects to github for me.

Though the initials hg make me hope it went to a mercurial host.

foolmevor 13 Jahren

That's weird, it redirects to Bitbucket for me too.

arcatekvor 13 Jahren

It redirects to Github, here.

khakionionvor 13 Jahren

times like this, i wish i could like a comment. :)

crabasavor 13 Jahren

OP here. I was typing GH into my URL bar and noticed (before I hit enter) that I had typed hitgub.com. I laughed and thought to myself "I should register that!"

Then I hit enter, expecting to get an error, and was quite surprised to see that GitHub had beaten me to the punch. Kudos to them for protecting that typo from a domain squatter.

alexjeffreyvor 13 Jahren

this is quite cool, and it's good to see that github parks its own typos - I've seen far too many "What you need when you need it" landing pages from getting a letter wrong while typing a domain.

hoovvor 13 Jahren

You sure that it's actually owned by GitHub?

github.com shows that it's registered through GoDaddy. hitgub.com is registered via namecheap, and has its contacts hidden.

akulbevor 13 Jahren

One possible scenario: GitHub may have been young, foolish, and naive, and originally registered their domain with GoDaddy.

Then they woke up and realized what a STEAMING PILE GoDaddy is as a company, and corrected the error of their ways for their other domains. :)

Just my random $.02 :)

alexjeffreyvor 13 Jahren

Fair point; I assumed it was given it redirects to github.com.

[deleted]vor 13 Jahren