A New Future for Icanhazip

Wow so this person has been running this site for so many years, paying bills, answering god knows how many idiots and even getting close to trouble with 3 letter agencies and senators for absolutely nothing.. hats off to you sir, any other person would have thrown in the towel a long time ago.

Also i feel little bad you didn't get any money out of it whether the site was designed to make money or not. It would have been a wonderful end to the story if you got something back for all the years of hardwork you put into running it. You do have my appreciation if that means anything though.

P.S. this story is very similar to rawgit which was a wonderful site but also fell prey to malware aholes.

> Also i feel little bad you didn't get any money out of I

Most likely it got them a much higher paying job than they would have otherwise gotten. Walking in and saying you single handedly run a site with billions of requests per day and petabytes of traffic will get you noticed.

Major didn't need icanhazip.com to get a good paying and quality job, this man is legend (at RAX when working with him)

Being good is neither necessary or sufficient for getting a high paying job.

Being able to get in front of a hiring manager who is offering a high paying job and convincing them to hire you is the only thing. And having a very popular website with a ton of traffic is more likely to get you in front of a hiring manager with a good job than actually being good.