I don't really see how this was a completely preventable issue. The person who owns the domain said they would keep it up, then they didn't.
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With the top bidder literally being peepee, my assumption was that they're just faking, will top every bid and simply don't intend to pay up.
One of the highest bidders is literally peepee, I assume this is a funny joke from someone who intends to bet infinite amounts and 100% does not intend to pay up
Thankful for our Hexbear party officials setting up infrastructure and shelter for displaced Hexbear refugees while the DNS tornado passes by.
It'll just be libs and maybe misguided comrades with too much money thinking the domain name actually matters. It's not like hexbear gets linked from outside that often. I hope some maligned lib pays $5k for it, realises it's worth nothing, and starts a journey where they learn to touch grass instead.
Windows has it's own knockoff version at C:/Windows/system32/etc/drivers/hosts
Very unlikely to be the end of the instance, thankfully. It'll just change name to something else silly.
Another salute to my Lemmygrad comrades for being the place to turn every time Hexbear goes down.
Sure, but without a complicated legal entity, "the person who controls the DNS" will always be a single point of failure. Questions maybe should've been asked earlier, and backups put in place, but nothing about the issue was preventable.