hexbear.net comically loses its domain name
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Heartbreaking: The Worst Capitalist Practice You Know Just Accidentally Picked A Funny Target
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And here I was complaining about cheeseburger.social going down. Our user count was well into the dozens. Dozens!
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Perfect domain for a shitcoin.
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Oh it couldn't have happened to a better bunch!
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Tired: Lenin’s on sale again
Wired: Hexbear is a shitcoin
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(It's a joke/reference, I guess it's not 100% known though. My bad.)
I really do hate "I know what I have so you are going to pay whatever number I set" capitalism though, which is what they do here. These registrars figured out a loophole around the redemption grace period and are, from the start, set up to make you lose the domain and then spend significant money on a completely unfair auction where they have the power to plant fake bids, rather than paying the usual static redemption fees that aren't that excessive.
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Yes... but the meme doesn't work if said practice is barely on the scale.
Because yeah, there are some REALLY sketchy registrars. Working with the "reputable" ones and now taking advantage of a nation's country code for the lulz (see: .ml) keeps you pretty safe.
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So this is a man-in-the-middle attack waiting to happen isn't it? Buy the domain, setup a reverse proxy that points to the original hexbear server IP and start logging all requests.
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It has only three letters and its on the .com top-level domain. That's it.
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Tankie instance
