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anonytrary ◴[] No.27419196[source]
> If you’re curious, Cloudflare did pay me for the site. We made a deal for them to pay me $8.03; the cost of the domain registration. The goal was never to make money from the site (although I did get about $75 in total donations from 2009 to 2021). The goal was to provide a service to the internet. Cloudflare has helped me do that and they will continue to do it as the new owners and operators of icanhazip.com.

Damn, I'm almost mad at you for not hustling. Could have left with a few million easily over that entire time period, including charging Cloudfare a small fortune for the site! But hats off to you for being a true altruist. Too many paper altruists these days.

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1. kilroy123 ◴[] No.27419857[source]
How?
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2. top_kekeroni_m8 ◴[] No.27421270[source]
There's a lot of value in owning a website that processes billions of requests per month. A lot of people rely on that website, what if he sold it to a malicious user? Tracking IPs or changing what they return?