After more than two decades, the creator of Paint.NET finally owns the domain paint.net

"I've been trying to get this domain for 22 years." ...
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After 22 years, you can finally download Paint.net from the URL 'Paint.net'

All because the original owners made a huge error.
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Paint.NET 5 drops Windows 8.1 and 7 support, adds pressure sensitivity, GPU rendering, more

Paint.NET, a popular free image editor we recently mentioned in our "Top 11 apps for Windows 11 users" article, has received a major feature update. Version 5.0 is now available for download from the ...
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Paint.NET can finally be downloaded from the "right" place

Paint.NET is a particularly useful and powerful image editor, available for free on Windows. It was initially released in 2004 by university student Rick Brewster as a replacement for Paint on Windows ...