hexbear.net comically loses its domain name
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... if DNS is the worst capitalist practice you know of then you REALLY should spend less time shitposting and more time paying attention to the world.
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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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I need a reminder of what hexbear is about. I recall something... off.
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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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The fuck is going on with this domain?
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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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You don't have to pay anything to have your own identity.
If you want someone else's servers to replicate a piece of information for you, and you want them to take responsibility for administrative issues like figuring out whether you still want it next year or what to do if you're doing something illegal, you may have to pay anywhere from $5 a year to $30 a year for the privilege depending on a couple of factors. Given how massively inflated the price of registering a domain could be, if the type of ghouls who like to get their hands on things like this were able to get their hands on it, I'm inclined to call that success. About 99% of internet users will never need to know or care about DNS, and they can still have their identity without having to pay $30 a year.
I'm pretty sure the price of domains has actually been going down over time, and they've introduced a bunch of new TLDs and new types of entries in the records in response to pretty much the only significant problems that the 40-year-old system has ever had during its history. Like I said, I'd call that success.
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Tankie instance
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Right. I don't mind people wearing certain red hats. It lets me know right up front what to expect. Reddit had the same dilemma once upon a time where specific subs were banned, and that just forced the roaches to hide in unknown areas where once you knew exactly where to find them all.
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Probably. In all honestly, if you are a hexbear user, I'd be keeping a careful eye on who owns the domain when it magically pops back up.
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That will be a problem for sites that are all hosted on one IP address where the server figures out what site you want by the client's request string.
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So.... who's outbidding them? Someone from tankiejerk? Or are their being taken over by lemmygrad, to be introduced to Socialism with Dessaline characteristics?
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Meh, they're just going to flood over into grad and .ml where they'll be welcomed with open arms.
Then all those ".ml's not that bad, they're kinda nice" folks will see that .ml mask drop and then finally .world will defend from the last of the Tankie
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