{"id":16432,"date":"2016-11-18T14:59:24","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T19:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=16432"},"modified":"2016-11-18T14:59:24","modified_gmt":"2016-11-18T19:59:24","slug":"the-blog-bait-and-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/18\/the-blog-bait-and-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"The .blog Bait and Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chrisschidle.com\/the-dot-blog-bait-and-switch\/\">Chris Schidle<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=12978893\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/chrisschidle.com\/the-dot-blog-bait-and-switch\/\"><p>At the time the link led to a WordPress.com page where you could sign up for updates (the full <a href=\"https:\/\/get.blog\/\">get.blog<\/a> website was not up yet). Thinking that <tt>chris.blog<\/tt> had a nice to ring to it, I signed up immediately.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Alright, I guess that&rsquo;s fair. If multiple Chrises (or Chris&rsquo;s? whatever) apply then it goes to auction. I&rsquo;d still have a chance to secure it, and Automattic maximizes their revenue by auctioning it off. Win-win.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it&rsquo;s not fair to call this bait &amp; switch. Really it was bait &amp; refund, and certainly the situation would be far worse had they chosen to not make the application fee refundable.<\/p>\n<p>But still, I thought I had <em>chance<\/em> at securing the domain. That was the logical conclusion given the terms they outlined (via successful application or winning an auction).<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Knock Knock Whois There LLC, the subsidiary of Automattic behind the .blog TLD, has responded with <a href=\"https:\/\/my.blog\/2016\/11\/17\/about-reserved-domains\/\">this post regarding reserved domains<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Schidle (via Hacker News): At the time the link led to a WordPress.com page where you could sign up for updates (the full get.blog website was not up yet). Thinking that chris.blog had a nice to ring to it, I signed up immediately. [&#8230;] Alright, I guess that&rsquo;s fair. If multiple Chrises (or Chris&rsquo;s? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[728,96],"class_list":["post-16432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-domain-name-system-dns","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16433,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16432\/revisions\/16433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}