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This is not the point discussed here.

> Someone else could

When you own a domain, you can choose not to serve anything on HTTP/S, and still nobody can come and serve some other website on your domain, because they don’t control the DNS records.

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Why HTTP? Why not SSH? When I try to connect to it that way, I get no response. How will I know it's a placeholder?
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HTTP is used by billions of people while SSH is not. It should be pretty apparent. Why do people answer my phone calls and texts but everyone is ignoring my smoke signals?
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What is the smoke signal for “we’ve been trying to reach you about your car’s extended warranty“?
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