[tomjakubowski]

I think the joke may have been by ChrisLMB, who saw the opportunity when he read the unmasked second-level domain in ben174's address.

[hatsunearu]

But the guy's got LMB in his name, what's up with that?

[kchr]

That would be the opportunity, I guess. :-)

[kchoudhu]

Definitely had this happen to me when I was new on IRC.