Correct, we think by not bringing any external context to the decision making process, we can provide our customers with a positive outcome more often than not. That's it, we're here to decide thorny issues.
Whois lists Ceglowski Maciej as the tech contact, and he is the owner of Pinboard. It doesn't explain why he would let it point to a vanilla Apache install and not point it at something useful
I would say that leaving it pointing to a vanilla Apache install is pretty on-brand for Maciej. He's currently busy with election-related journalism, but I'm guessing that this thread will eventually get his attention and he will get around to having it redirect to pinboard.in.
"Election-related journalism" is a polite way to put it. And this has been the situation for what, 5 years? One of these days I need to take a weekend and get myself off that abandonware.