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hexbear.net is on sale for auction (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/fediverselore

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Auction: https://www.sav.com/auctions/details/7073489/hexbear.net

Not sure what will happen, but seems to be a Fediverselore event for sure

Update: post from hexbear admin on chapo.chat: https://chapo.chat/post/4468531

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

New update for those of you following this story

We have established contact with the previously-AWOL owner, and after much discussion, we have determined that while there was an error in the auto-payment initially, the renewal funds were transferred manually to Sav and the auction continues despite that. We are currently appealing to Sav support with our domain credentials. We are also looking into whether an ICANN-compliant grace period was implemented prior to the rescinding and auctioning of the domain.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

Oh interesting

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Their instance seems to be back up again. A sad day for us all.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think it's hilarious that there is a bidding war that has been driving the bid up.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

j_s_0e6b87 is an absolute madlad. They're wasting their money, in my opinion, but a madlad nonetheless

[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Honestly, I kinda respect the Hexbear folks for not really going after the domain and telling people to redirect the money to mutual aid.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

Hexbear's pretty consistent in its stances, there's a vote going on for what to do and pretty close to nobody is voting for bidding on the old domain.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago

Auction you say?

[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 days ago (7 children)

I am not writing this to shit on them, but I have to appreciate the irony in the situation. Something about a communist community getting messed up by lapses in individual responsibility, or an authoritarian leaning community getting messed up by fuckups in leadership.

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[–] Luci 34 points 2 days ago (15 children)

It's up to $1921 now lol

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