Paint.NET is one of the best free tools on the Internet, a Photoshop-like program that comes with much of the functionality of Adobe's software without the foreboding sense that you're selling your soul, while also being more user-friendly than similar tools like GIMP. However, there has always been one slight oddity about the program's existence.
Despite the program's suggestive name, you couldn't actually download Paint.NET via the domain paint.net. Since its launch in 2004, Paint.NET has been hosted on a different site, getpaint.net. But that's all about to change. After more than two decades of trying, the creator of Paint.NET has finally acquired its domain namesake.
"I got the domain! I finally got it!" Paint.NET creator Rick Brewster posted exuberantly on Bluesky on Friday. "I've been trying to get this domain for 22 years" he wrote in the follow-up thread, describing the event as "A big fucking deal."
Following his celebratory announcement, Brewster proceeded to explain the eve...
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