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I am seeing posts from https://hexbear.net/ once again. Anyone know what happened since they lost their domain name? How did they get it back?

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[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 43 points 3 days ago (1 children)

https://chapo.chat/post/4472297

The issue was that the domain expired and the original user that set up the domain was MIA... but according to this like a month later the admin awoke from hiberation 🐻 and managed to restore the domain (it was enough of a grace period from the registrar to bypass the auction) and give the current admins shared access.

There were some ongoing server issues beyond that but as far as I know the issue appears resolved. Lemmy.ca is not federated with them so that's about as far as I'll look into it.

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[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 18 points 3 days ago (3 children)

The admins got it back quite a while ago, the last bit of time has been ensuring smooth federation and using it as an opportunity to poll whether refederation was even what everyone wanted, as well as which style of federation (block list vs allow list, or none at all). Things are smoother now!

[–] BB84@mander.xyz 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Did they end up choosing block list or allow list? I hope it was the former. Allowlist will exclude small instances and harm federation diversity.

[–] Edie@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 days ago

They went with allow list as it used to be

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago

I believe they went with broader federation, though obviously with the defederated instances remaining blocked.

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[–] anindefinitearticle@sh.itjust.works 38 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Well, they lost it because it expired.

They probably repurchased it.

A whois says that the domain was reregistered on Feb 19th 2025 via porkbun.com.

EDIT: https://hexbear.net/comment/5974632

[–] m_f@discuss.online 15 points 3 days ago (2 children)

What a dork. Glad my instance is defederated from that hot mess

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 4 points 3 days ago (7 children)

Jesus Christ. They're really convinced that everyone is as invested in their bullshit as they are. Like, completely and sincerely convinced.

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[–] mutual_ayed@sh.itjust.works 23 points 4 days ago (2 children)

.ml has some competition again

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[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 21 points 3 days ago

So first, fans of an actually quite good (as I understand) leftist podcast got together on Reddit and started talking to one another.

The dark forces that are at work on the modern internet can’t have something like that, so they invested a pretty tiny amount of resources into sidetracking the whole thing into pettiness, vicious bad-spirited trolling, and slavish adherence to the stupidest and hot-button-est of hot-button leftism issues available. Because of Reddit’s unique combination of anonymity plus unchecked power for the (also anonymous) mods, it worked perfectly, and the whole place became a loud and hostile waste of time.

Still in waste-of-time form, the whole thing migrated over to Lemmy when Lemmy became available. It sits there festering, fueled by a combination of deliberate distortion by people who hate the left, people who just like having a community and stick around (avoiding the “bad” parts and politics), and people with some degree of mental illness who genuinely think Russia is good, attacking anyone who isn’t performatively left to the point of caricature is productive, and it’s everyone else who is the problem.

Because, by this point, the only people around are fairly dysfunctional, they had some kind of falling-out with the person who had paid for their web hosting, who for the same reason had chosen a corrupt registrar, who tried to extort them for thousands of dollars. They refused, the registrar presumably abandoned the effort when whatever counter-troll had bid the price up didn’t bother to buy it at the wildly inflated price it landed at, and they got back the original domain and restarted as if nothing had happened.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

First question that comes to mind is: did they get it back, or did someone else snatch it from them and also made it a Lemmy instance? Like, one of the conservative comms (forgot which instance; world or ee?) had the mods banned and a new mod took over and turned it into a satirical circle jerk thing where it's making fun of conservatives/conservative memes.

Edit: No... It does look like the OG. So it's not that.

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

No, they got it back but couldn't turn federation back on due to some weird issues.

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[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 13 points 3 days ago

Thank you for reminding me how hilarious that was!

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

That whole domain lost thing only lasted for a week or so and then they got it back. I don't know how they did it, maybe it was still on hold. The registrar seemed a bit shady to me... But they were back online a few days after that incident.

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Wasn't it sav.com or something? Pretty sure it wasn't porkbun.

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Read it was pork in another comment. a quick whois shows:

$ whois hexbear.net
   Domain Name: HEXBEAR.NET
   Registry Domain ID: 2584175083_DOMAIN_NET-VRSN
   Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.porkbun.com
   Registrar URL: http://porkbun.com/
   Updated Date: 2025-02-19T05:16:07Z
   Creation Date: 2021-01-12T00:35:22Z
   Registry Expiry Date: 2026-01-12T00:35:22Z
   Registrar: Porkbun LLC
   Registrar IANA ID: 1861
   Registrar Abuse Contact Email: abuse@porkbun.com
   Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: 5038508351
   Domain Status: clientDeleteProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientDeleteProhibited
   Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
   Name Server: NILE.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM
   Name Server: PIPER.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM
   DNSSEC: unsigned
   URL of the ICANN Whois Inaccuracy Complaint Form: https://www.icann.org/wicf/
>>> Last update of whois database: 2025-04-01T08:45:05Z <<<
[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Hmm, the auction domain was sav.com https://lemmy.world/post/25448410

I mean a whois as of now doesn't tell us what it was. And I remember some statement from them. Probably in their main channel(?) saying they consider switching DNS registrars...

I'm not that interested in Hexbear, so somone else has to look it up if we want a definite answer.

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