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Comment by Ecco | Hacker News Reader

Wait a minute, did somebody get so pissed at flatpak that they bought a domain name just to specifically host that single blog post?

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Domains are cheap. Often free for one year.

Well they’re “free” if you buy them alongside hosting. Still even if cheap, that’s quite a commitment: finding a domain, paying it, writing a custom (albeit simple) website, uploading it, etc...

> Well they’re “free” if you buy them alongside hosting.

Depends on hosting company. I've "bought" domains for free many times, without hosting, just to run joke sites for few months.

Ha, interesting! I always assumed a .org was at least a dollar. Mind sharing a link?

Don't have a free "org" source; maybe they never was. Free domains I got were under national TLD.

> that’s quite a commitment: finding a domain, paying it, writing a custom (albeit simple) website, uploading it

Sounds fast to me if you know how. Just write the article (markdown + pandoc is fast) and...

With Zeit you can just type `now` and `now alias (url) mydomain.xyz` - and the website is up and running at your domain for $domain_price + 0.10USD/GB.

With DigitalOcean/Vultr/Some VPS Provider + Ansible you can do something similar.

> Still even if cheap, that’s quite a commitment: finding a domain, paying it, writing a custom (albeit simple) website, uploading it, etc..

I am among the laziest people I know and even I'm raising an eyebrow at this statement.

Guessing some other company involved with packaging formats?

It is far more likely that the website was created by an individual, probably by the guy who submitted the site to Reddit's Linux forum.

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