Ask for a cash refund. They will probably refund. Initiate a chargeback if that doesn't work. Take the emotion and distain out of it. The world is enshittified!
Interesting. Domain as a unit of trust makes sense until it doesn't. Buying a second hand domain is like a second hand car. But you may not know it is second hand!
I think the mistake here is the redirect old to new. That is always risky so only do it if deseprate. In this case I would have done the redirect from new to old. Then just use the new as a vanity url.
You are right but best to do that on day 1, which was probably in the 1970s or whenever a database of company names first existed. In the case of HTML script exploits maybe the 1990s.
So you have a transitioning issue. You suddenly allow this company name sending a script to a domain they control then it is too dangerous.
Test data like you mentioned is a great idea to increase resiliance. However I don't think that rises the overall ecosystem of consumers of this data to the right level to release actual exploits into the dataset.
Downvoters are probably thinking purely. They are thinking "everyone in the world should make their systems 100% secure against common exploits and let a company name be an arbitrary string".
The problem is that is not realistic.
It works at a corporate level but not across all actors who interact with this dataset and the global internet. You can "should" at them all you like but no one has control over this.
The government can choose: more exploits in the wild or fewer. Allowing script URLs they dont control in company names is the former.
On balance, blocking such names makes sense. You can secure YOUR systems, and if that was that I would agree but unless you are going to pay to audit all consumers of the data worldwide, this solution is more pragmatic. I am not sure what we gain by letting company names have code.
Profiteers had no problem. Vapers had no problem. The government had a problem.
This shows democracy actually working IMO. You elect people you trust and then they do the right thing despite individual people not doing that collectively.
Tax is one big pool of money and I doubt the money will be used to fix the issues created.
A similar idea, carbon taxes and carbon credits trading seemed politically dead at least in my country even though it is a fantastic idea.
Edit: what might work is a 5-10 British pound ransom, released on return of the disposible to a recycling centre. Give the used devices free to a reclaiming merchant that operates out of the same country.
If you are up for a fight see this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41949905
And thanks for the warning!