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hey there, returning to lemmy after checking it out like 2 years ago. does it matter what instance i use? currently just using the account i previously made.

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[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Seems like they reclaimed it.

Last I heard, they failed the renewal and it was auctioning at $300 USD

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's really not clear that's what happened. A direct question and there's no real answer: https://hexbear.net/post/4470506

In the original thread about it there were people joking that the domain renewal didn't get paid after DOGE cut funding.

But it's just suspicious enough that if I were a user I'd not share any personal info and connect via a VPN...

[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What happend was:

Someone posted about them going down.

I checked their domain, it was down.

Then someone said they moved to chapo.chat

I checked and, indeed, they are up and running on the new domain.

Then, today, I was informed that chapo.chat now redirects to hexbear.net, and hexbear.net is up again.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 day ago

Yes. But why? I wasn't able to find anything confirming the chain of events that led from an auction at over $2000 with the registration company refusing to cancel it, to Hexbear suddenly having their domain back and everything back to normal.

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