I recently bumped again into one of the oldest memes out there - All your base are belong to us. Long story short, a 1992 English translation of the Japanese game Zero Wing got a bit screwed up and players were fast to pick this glitch up and elevate it to Internet meme status.

Being a DNS junkie at heart (see my past Googlesquatting experiments), the us word at the end of that sentence caught my eye. Let's see if the allyourbasearebelongto.us domain name is available 🤩 !

The results got me really baffled. I checked both root and subdomains:

Domain	Registered in	Target
allyourbasearebelongto.us	2019	DOMENE OG WEBHOTELL
all`.`yourbasearebelongto.us	2006	Old non-HTTPS site with Flash plugin
allyour`.`basearebelongto.us	2006	404
allyourbase`.`arebelongto.us	2016	No response
allyourbaseare`.`belongto.us	2002	Weird number cards
allyourbasearebelong`.`to.us	2002	No response

This is a harsh reminder that everything has already been done on the Internet. Still, none of these domains actually refers to the glorious meme - what a waste. IMHO, the folks owning the (probably priceless) to.us domain could have made a little effort here and put their domain to good use by hosting this meme.

A bit disappointed by these findings, I tried to come up with other ideas, like using the .cat extension because the guy in the meme is called CATS. But this one requires to publish in Catalan 😅, and it's not a well known TLD.

So I shuffled possibilites a bit more and came up with allyourbasearebe.longto.us. Bingo! This one was not taken. Finally, the beloved meme now has a site of its own that honors it.

👉 Check it out at allyourbasearebe.longto.us.

See you next time for more DNS hype!

# DNS

All your domain are belong to us

Bing (and Brave?) are squatting Goo*gle domains so I joined them