#IRC Please get away from Freenode as soon as you can, the hostile takeover has devolved into a DNS typosquatting attack against libera.chat and no matter what you think of the new Freenode administration in general, this isn't right.
Just typo'ed a servername while reconnecting to an IRC channel, and accidentally put in libera dot net instead of the correct dot chat, and you wouldn't believe where I found myself: Back on Freenode. Who've apparently secured that domain, and are using it to try to trick people back on to their services.
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in reply to Hypolite Petovan • •And I think at least some of it is because the current DNS system is getting pretty packed up, and might cost thousands and thousands of dollars to get a meaningful domain name, since all the domain name speculators got into the business........