> I dont really get why you'd buy a domain [...] Even a tweet makes much more sense in my head than this

I think we should be celebrating people hosting their own content on their own website instead of just posting on some social media site.

I think they’re using it to promote their product, Xint Code, which was used to discover it. That’s the way I read it anyway.

Where would you have them write a detailed report if not a website?

Maybe it’s tradition https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7548991

The domain is canonical.

Then it's syndicate everywhere.

But all roads lead back to the domain.

Definitely comes over as salty. Naming major flaws has been a tradition for decades. Remember Heartbleed? It had a site and a logo :) Shellshock, Meltdown, Spectre as well. A few more: https://github.com/hannob/vulns

This site though is pretty useful; first it serves as a central location to point people to with short links in chats/emails/whatever, then it has a quick visual explainer and a link to the detailed technical report for those who want more info. Pretty neat.

Last but not least, buying the domain must have taken 5 minutes, prompting the page must have taken 30 minutes and posting it on HN must have taken 1 minute. So it certainly wasn't a lot of work in the grand scheme of things and probably did not deter the team from doing other important things.

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