Never in my life has it been harder to control my spending impulse than this moment

I have a couple thousand I can throw at this.

Least I can do is run up the price a bit from the $305 it's at now...

God speed @SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world
This is your big once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!
The tankies already can't afford $300, you're just running up the price for the crypto bros who want it back
- A scamcoin couldn't hurt their reputation anymore than what it already is anyway.
There's no better person to own the domain than you, imo
- I just want to buy it and sell it back to them at a profit so I can teach them a little bit about capitalism.
iirc the admins and users from hexbear already moved to another platform (not lemmy), this is just what 1 admin decided to do some time before that 'split' happened (again, the majority already moved out)

Trolling aside, if the winner sets up SSL certs they could probably phish some reused passwords from HexBear users trying to login.

Can someone let The Onion know?

You want the tankies to get it back?
- How is The Onion tankies? They were the ones trying to buy InfoWars to make it a comedy site, weren’t they?
- Nah, the onion was already prepared to spend millions buying the InfoWars domain for some grade A trolling, what's a couple thousand for a side project trolling the troll lmao

Someone needs to turn it into a ~~Biden 2028 site~~ memorial site for Nobel Peace Prize-winner Henry Kissinger that plays In The Arms of an Angel

@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world said in another thread he'd replace it with nothing but a Winnie the Pooh image if they had disposable income LMAO
I'm confused, hating Kissinger is not a tankie thing?
- Yeah, he's a piece of shit. I was trying to think of something they wouldn't like, even ironically.

Hexbear is a crypto coin, turns out it's the main reason they're banned in China.

if you can outbid crypto bros for the meme go right ahead but just know the current price is already too much for the tankies to even consider contesting so you're not hurting them in anyway they haven't already hurt themselves.

Seems like they are nervous about raising $400 so far lmao

Ahhh. Sweet, sweet schadenfreude.

Capitalism fucking over the communists once again.

Tankies != Communists. Tankies = Authoritarian "communists"
- In theory, you're right. In theory, practice matches theory; in practice, it doesn't.
  Is there a functioning communist state, anywhere in the world, that isn't also an authoritarian state, or effectively a dictatorship? Has there ever been one?
  The only functioning communist communities I'm aware of were the communes in California, nearly all of which have died out, collapsed, or otherwise fallen apart. I think there are still a few surviving ones, but community populations have always numbered in the dozens, and usually fewer.
- So, communists in practice.
- You’re obsession with tankies is weird

I must not understand it properly, how was the instance functioning during the grace period for the domain? I was under the understanding that the grace period still had the domain name disabled it's just the owner had the ability to renew it still

then once the grace period ended then it hit redemption period where it's auctioned.

If the domain expired 1/12, how was hexbear functioning for the last month(or was it not and I just didn't notice cause I don't interact with it)

still had the domain name disabled it's just the owner had the ability to renew it still
There's no set rule, every registrar can handle it differently, some don't even bother to change the configuration at all until it's actually been resold
There's also caching, the underlying servers are still responding to their raw IP addresses, DNS and registrars just tie the name to the IP address and then your device uses that IP address. Once you've been to a site your device (or firewall/router) will have that IP address/name cached and won't look it up again for awhile until the cache entry expires
Lemmy federation can also be weird, it's not unheard of for some instances to take days to catch-up on federated posts from certain other instances.
Startrek.website for example was just having a week long federation problem where they weren't getting external posts, even when an external user made a post directly to a comm on their instance
- So I went to a little bit of a deep dive regarding this, they do require interrupting DNS as part of their Redemption grace period. Furthermore I went into the hexbear website and their current header indicates that despite the fact that it's in current auction the current owner can still sign in and redeem the domain. Which makes me think that they're running a more gracious rgp then what is to be expected. So that being said they could just be placing bids on a domain that won't actually sell.
  Being said though apparently according to other comments the infrastructure maintainer of hexbear has been AWOL for a while so it's entirely possible that they just won't notice it that it will transfer
  The way I see it, there's a few things that may have happened here.
  Either the domain registrar incorrectly processed their expired domain system and sold the domain without interrupting DNS in which case a third party bought it and then immediately put it to auction (unlikely cause the status / NS is the expired servers), this route would open up the domain registrar to a complaint being filed against them via ICANN
  Or their domain registrar had a 30-day preemptive period where they were messaging the person, and then an additional few days with auction rgp that's the actual official last call for it, if this is the case then hexbear's infrastructure admin should be able to just sign in and renew the domain, but they may be forced to pay a Redemption fee on top of it, if that's the case then when they renew the domain, the auction would continue running it's just when it ended no buyers would be selected because the original owner renewed
  Essentially the same thing as one, however they never disabled DNS, and instead of it being a third party, it's themselves putting it out to auction on the tail end of the 30-day rgp window. If that's the case then like number one they're in violation of ICANN as DNS wasn't disabled.
  Again though, this is off the consensus that they didn't disable DNS a month ago, which I'm leaning at because I haven't seen any comments regarding it nor have I found any ststus sites showing that the domain was offline

What happened?

Hexbear infrastructure admin went MIA and their domain renewal lapsed, someone snatched it up and sent it to auction

That is so hilarious

oh no! i hope they can get back up somewhere. anyone know what's going on, if their admin is posting about this elsewhere or something?

You forgot this: /s
- no, i didn't, there's a fair few communities there i'm in, and it'd be a shame to lose them.