A website that lets you create official-looking GitHub links that rickroll the visitor.
Simply replace github.com
with microsoftgithub.com
. The resulting URL will redirect to the rickroll video, and its social media preview will look identical to the official one.
For example, https://github.com/github/dmca
becomes https://microsoftgithub.com/github/dmca
.
When I realized this domain hadn't been bought by Microsoft, I decided to purchase it. It was dirt cheap, and I didn't want it to fall into the hands of scammers who might use it for phishing. With the domain in my hands, it would have been a waste not to use it to rickroll unsuspecting people.
To date, 235.3k
visitors (excluding bots and crawlers) have been rickrolled, and the number keeps growing!