RobertB-DC's Journal: Officially 1337: I pwn CmdrTaco!

You know, I never thought it would be possible to pwnxxor CmdrTaco, founder and User Number 1 of Slashdot. So when I put the domain name cmdrtaco.com on my Watch List at DomainTools.com (formerly whois.sc), I figured I'd just get to watch as CmdrTaco himself, or one of the nearly-a-million Slashdotters snagged it from domain limbo. The only question, I thought, was whether it would be used for good (like a pointer back to Slashdot) or for evil (personal attacks against CmdrTaco, malware trap, etc), or for something entirely unrelated.

Imagine my surprise when I come back from a 2-week vacation and find that the domain has become available! I didn't even grab it right away, because I figured the data was outdated -- DomainTools doesn't always have the latest information, though they do better on .com than on .org. But sure enough, I went to Gandi and voila, it worked! So now I pwn CmdrTaco. Kinda. At least I totally pwn CmdrTaco.com. Until he asks for it back.

I'm a collector, not a poacher or a squatter. Other domains I own include RCDV.org, a domain that made national headlines when a women's shelter forgot to renew it and it ended up as a porn portal. The squatter dropped the offensive content almost immediately and let the domain slip -- and I snagged it and made it a pointer to the correct site. Since the folks at the shelter aren't terribly web-savvy, I just keep renewing it.

The esteemed Father of Slashdot still has his own site at the nominally geekier domain name CmdrTaco.NET. The all-new CmdrTaco.COM points to Slashdot. Well, kinda. Remember OMG!!! PONIES!!!? bwa ha ha!

Update: I offered CmdrTaco the domain for the price I paid, and because he's an all-around cool dude, he accepted! Either that or because the poneys filled him with ph34r. w00t. It's for the best, really... pwning such a k3wl d0ma1n was just too much 1337n355 for one man to bear. Makes me tired just typing it.

that's pretty funny!

[zogger]

You ought to do a comic wiki there, all slashdot all the time, characters and situations. Proly be as amusing as slashdot itself if it got popular with some good artists, *because* we certainly have enough characters and situations here!

Re:that's pretty funny!

[RobertB-DC]

You ought to do a comic wiki there, all slashdot all the time, characters and situations. Proly be as amusing as slashdot itself if it got popular with some good artists, *because* we certainly have enough characters and situations here!

As much as I like the idea, I'll have to pass. Slashdot + Images = He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named (think: hombre cabrito).

But I'm totally willing to point the domain to anyone with a good idea (or a crazy enough bad idea) and the time to pull it off. If it were to take off, I'd