I am starting a contest, the winner of which will get a free .com, .net, .biz, .org, .info, .in, .us, or .me domain, registered by me on NameCheap and pushed to the winner. How do you win? By solving a series of challenges. Sure, most of you can afford a domain, but that's not really the point - the point is to find out who is cleverest and fastest. So here's how it works. It starts with the text below. Decode it (first problem), and it will give you the next instruction. Follow that, and so on from there. Have fun!
Challenge #1:
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