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My brother used to own <our uncommon family name>.com and wrote on it a bunch. Eventually he bailed out and let it expire. It turned into a porn site for a few years and now its for sale for like $2k from some predatory reseller.


Same happened to my personal website for which I purchased the domain when I was 14 (long time ago) and at some point decided that a .com domain is ridiculous for a personal website. Chinese porn site it was thereafter …


My old domain remains unregistered... Lucky me. I guess my last name was uncommon enough!




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