Thread on where they go from here:
https://chapo.chat/post/4470321
Right now the registrar stands to make over $2000 from auctioning this site. That's a lot more than whatever renewal HB were going to pay and once it sells for that whoever buys it then has a much higher renewal fee thereafter (hundreds of dollars a year probably) as a result of that valuation which they can in theory reap year after year. Even should the person buying it drop it immediately their hosting company stands to reap more from this one auction and year than if they'd continued to host with them for 10 years.
This was entirely a self-own on HexBear's part. A list:
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Their admins did not press strongly enough to get access they needed to the domain name account.
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Admins knowing the person having these details was flaky did not monitor things like domain renewal and such, if they had they would have noticed while the grace period was still active and could (apparently) have quickly reached the person with access within the 30 days required and fixed it. The person with access was able to be reached we see now within 2-3 days. That's not a difficult person to reach or they got damn lucky with timing.
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Person who had access almost certainly got some sort of notice. This either went to an unmonitored email π or was ignored.
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Their post on it here is made by an anonymous admin. Once again their admins are obfuscating, not being transparent with the userbase and acting a too much like bad actor groups like MAC on reddit in thinking themselves some appointed council of ideology and ethics in charge of their userbase and guiding them to preferred conclusions established by discussions within this secret group.
(To be fair to 4 their userbase does need guidance given how many left-libs and people who haven't read theory are there, they have let in a lot of liberalism but too often these struggles and edicts are not on principled meaningful matters like addressing the misogyny issue but on pet causes, minor tiffs, arguments over phrasing, etc)