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For those who don't know, 1000memories was a service meant to allow people to create a "permanent" online memorial to loved ones who had died. Their CEO leaned hard on me to use them after I complained on my blog about the shabby business practices of a competitor, Legacy.com, when my best friend died.

Stay classy, YC. I'm sure it would have cost a fortune to keep the domain up.

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Ugh. Given the nature of the site that is particularly galling. But it's done, I don't think there is any way to reverse this.

Easy, put the permanent records back in place and negotiate back the domain.

Like so...

https://web.archive.org/web/20110205090306/http://1000memori...

This one might be tougher than usual since the functionality that's very visible is probably dead whereas the links on the bottom containing useful info are tiny and look like the background. You at least see the right site, though.

How is this YC's fault? They don't own the domains of these companies, and have no say over who their companies sell to (in this case, Ancestery.com).

I don't know if it's YC's fault per se, but it sure doesn't reflect well on them when the first link on their giant cheerful "look at all our companies!" list is a dead domain serving malware.

They did* own the domain. I don't believe YC does non-equity deals.

*I haven't ruled out that YC has no ownership in the squatter, so, they may still "do".

YC owns 6% of the company when they go through their program. This stake is diluted further in future rounds of financing.

This is not enough stake in the preferred shares to dictate anything.

Sam's New Deal is for 7%, but I believe YC has re-up'd on some companies in the past.

YC following on is a very recent policy.

Before, their stated policy was never to follow on, in order to prevent signaling risk.

Has signalling risk gone away, or has YC expanded its appetite?

YC Continuity now participates in every following round, up to something like a $350m valuation. So they follow on for everyone, to eliminate signaling.

Wow that's pretty sad. Knowing the low price of (effectively) indestructible cloud store (S3) and the near zero bandwidth cost of something like this (I mean seriously how much traffic do you really expect per site?), that's particularly sad.

Seems like a problem to be solved with a blockchain! Obitucoins.

Welcome to YC '17!

So good.

Our Incredible Journey toward extinction and malware-serving domain squatters.

Sic transit gloria fundi.

I thought you had reached peak "SV-mocking Latin motto pun" with "Ad Astra Per Aspergera", but you always manage to outdo yourself. I feel like $11/year for a Pinboard account would be worth it to subsidize the puns alone. Bravo.

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