Also get the yyyplace.com as a fallback. Some (many?) places don’t allow signups with newer TLDs.

Everyone else has to start there due to Amazons RTO policy.

DNS is perfect. It takes 48h to propagate anyway.

Not on AWS anymore, I though.

Starting in what versions?

Wow. A lot of cynicism here. The AI bots are (currently) honoring robots.txt so this is an easy way to say go away. Honeypot urls can be a second line of defense as well as blocking published IP ranges. They’re no different than other bots that have existed for years.

Should I play the game though?

Then NY owning class always say that.