No it's not, it's just emphasising how stupid this whole debacle is.
Meet the man who owns his own piece of the internet
In the ultimate sign of online vanity, the billionaire chair of Hong Kong telecoms company PCCW, Richard Li, has bought his own internet address: .richardli. for $250,000 While most are willing to settle for their name under a dot-com (he also owns richardli.com) Mr Li has used the opening up of the internet's namespace to …
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Friday 13th May 2016 01:16 GMT Ole Juul
Re: So it's $249,985 extra
$250,000 to acquire it. It will also cost him at least $25,000 annually in dues and running costs. A little excessive when $100 a year will buy and host a dot-com domain.
It's in the article. However, I'd argue with the $100 part, since that's the level that I work at. One can actually get a .com for under $10 per year and annual hosting for the same or less. A C-note would be rather deluxe.
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Friday 13th May 2016 16:01 GMT Anonymous Coward
Did you know that George W Bush was dumb?
Oh grow up! Al Gore, son of Al Gore, at Harvard? (his grades weren't as good as GWB's) John F Kennedy, and every other Kennedy, who had Ted Sorenson write his thesis, before Sorenson wrote his Pulitzer winning Profiles in Courage? Ted Kennedy, thrown out of Harvard for cheating, twice? (Before he went on to abandon drowning mistresses to their deaths, calling lawyers rather than lifeguards, and sexually assaulting waitresses) GWB was bad, but try singing a different tune every once in a while.
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Friday 13th May 2016 09:10 GMT Pompous Git
So he's spent $250,000 on getting his TLD but seems like not one cent on a web designer for 9 years. Priorities seem rather odd...
Given the appalling design abilities of the average web designer, that may be no bad thing. Why the fuck do font-size Nazis insist on 6 point type (sometimes smaller given the average 40 year old has difficulty reading anything below 12 points on paper?
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Sunday 15th May 2016 06:31 GMT Jan Hargreaves
I thought 9 was the very smallest you could go for text you want people to read. Maybe the legal garbage can be 8 or 7. 6 - I've not seen that. Are you sure you haven't got the site zoomed out or something? Other than that I only wonder that the font-size Nazis spend their days 3 inches away from their screen. Does seem bizarre.
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Sunday 15th May 2016 11:13 GMT Pompous Git
I thought 9 was the very smallest you could go for text you want people to read.
Part of the problem is that most web page designers use Macs where the default screen resolution is 72 dpi. Most web browsers run on Windows where the default screen resolution is 96 dpi. Text set at 10 points on a Mac is a tad over 7 points on a PC*. Avoiding the problem means allowing the user's browser to determine text size and giving up the illusion of control. Web pages and paper pages are very different beasts.
* My ASUS Zenbook has a small, high res screen so text appears smaller still.
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Friday 13th May 2016 08:27 GMT Anonymous Coward
This is what happens when...
You are bored in front of your keyboard. The mind starts to wander and you get sloppy and click on a web ad. Next thing you know, you just whipped out the credit card for $250 large for your own TLD. But the rush quickly subsides after you post your awesomeness to your friends online and are immediately rebuked for being a narcissistic douchebag. And as somebody that is supposed to be smart enough to run a ginormous telecom company, yet not smart enough to know that vanity TLDs are nothing more than a money grab by ICANN, you hang your head in shame. You. Hang. Your. Head. In. Shame.
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Friday 13th May 2016 12:35 GMT S4qFBxkFFg
I wonder what his email address is?
If it's me@richardli then he's quickly going to find out how many web developers are too stupid to correctly validate email addresses.
Try entering #!$%&'*+-/=?^_`{}|~@com (it's apparently a valid address) into any website's email field during a sign-up and see what happens.
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Monday 16th May 2016 12:34 GMT Anonymous Coward
If all
Us commentards chipped in we could buy and run .theregister that way we can control the quality of the content that we read we won't need this so called website and it's hacks anymore.
We could write our own badly written bullshit articles at commentards.theregister and rip each other to pieces.