HitGub.com

http://hitgub.com

by crabasa • 13 years ago

35 13 13 years ago

hitgub.com

insteadof• 13 years ago

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

arcatek• 13 years ago

It redirects to Github, here.

daurnimator• 13 years ago

huh? redirects to github for me.

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

foolme• 13 years ago

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

infogulch• 13 years ago

You guys were just trolled.

khakionion• 13 years ago

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

rco8786• 13 years ago

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

alexjeffrey2• 13 years ago

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.

hoov• 13 years ago

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.

alexjeffrey2• 13 years ago

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

akulbe• 13 years ago

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 :)

goldfeld• 13 years ago

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!"

crabasa• 13 years ago

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.

HitGub.com

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