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.

> 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.

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.

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

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

You are wrong. We should ditch walled gardens like twitter/facebook/ig

The domain is canonical.

Then it's syndicate everywhere.

But all roads lead back to the domain.