Hello users of hexbear, or shall i say chapo.chat, we fucked up, and i fucked up like three times making this post.
Yes, hexbear.net has expired. Yes, we were aware of this possibility. We have gradually lost contact with the access owner (prior admin) for the domain registration. We attempted to make a migration plan, but we were disarmed by the reappearance of the party in question in September 2024 and repeated assurances that they would a) transfer credentials and b) continue payments until they were able to do the former.
We accept full responsibility for this. We should have been more aggressive about this and continued our alternative despite these reassurances. This is our fuck up, and we can’t offer anything besides our continued apologies and our plan of action going forward and an explanation of what happened:
Over the time of chapo.chat and hexbear.net the admins that purchased the domain, established the donation accounts, and the server accounts have left. One of the primary admins has gone inactive and returned many times, over a year ago some of the newer admins began asking the older admins to give full access to the domain, servers, and donations. These requests were not met, despite warnings of this exact event.
At the moment we do not have access to hexbear.net and there is a strong chance we will not get it back without participating in the auction, which is already over $300. Choosing to abandon the hexbear.net domain will cause federation problems and considerable technical issues which would lead to potential extended downtime.
During this downtime we would be reestablishing access to the new domain (or hexbear.net if we win the auction), access to server ownership, and donation accounts. This would be distributed among a number of admins so that we can prevent this from happening again.
Chapo.chat has the same access problem that led to the current state of hexbear.net so it is to be considered temporary.
I will do my best to answer questions
I don’t think it’s really a big deal beyond the work it’ll take to fix things, honestly don’t let yourselves get dragged into a bidding war with some lib or something that wants to fuck with us.
that is my personal stance, and i want to see what the community wants to be named
I propose hasan.lib
here are some domains that are unregistered:
hexbear.xyz hexbear.chat hexbear.red hexbear.space hexbear.club hexbear.love hexbear.lol hexbear.earth hexbear.farm hexbear.fun hexbear.gg hexbear.land hexbear.life hexbear.quest hex.horseIf it becomes hex.horse I’ll photoshop a hexagonal horse. This is my pledge to the community.
I grabbed hexbear.zone if anyone wants to have that.
Edit: I also noticed when I was looking that beanis.zone is available as well.
is bean.is a viable domain name lmao
motherfucker…
Doesn’t look like it, sadly. Also though bean domain names are expensive. Bean.io is listed for $188k.
are most or all the participants in the auction outsiders?
as far as i know
A potential side effect of a new domain would be being unbanned in China, right? Because we’re only banned there because they thought hexbear.net was related to some crypto scam by the same name?
correct
Would be a fun twist
Instead of hexagonal bears… how about we go with… monkeys… struggling with boredom…
jojamart.com already taken
Can we still get
lib.rehab?sadly lemmy.world has it
… they know who they are, right?
Personally the name hardly matters to me at all, we just need to move on quickly
can dirt.owl be a domain?
I dont think .owl is a thing
dirto.wl
Well, here’s a few of my suggestions :)
https://lemmygrad.ml/pictrs/image/351941ba-c4cd-42d9-9ec7-12802d1d9d4f.png
With honeybear, honey.tube could be bought for around $100 but the yearly cost will be $22.
honeypot.fed
Lib.vote
I love the flag but I am way too Spanish and English brained to remember the name zheleznogorsk lol
Oh that flag is cool as hell
I mean, perhaps if the domain is cheap enough, just wait until the last minute to snipe it.
its currently at 300 dollars so it would be a costly one
Lotta folks who will find it very funny to redirect the bear to whatever, and I can’t say I blame them.
DNS registrars can face the wall
If you have a look at the How Auctions Work page on there, you’ll discover that the rat bastards have set it up so that the auction only ends 5 mins after the final bid is placed, meaning it’s impossible to truly snipe it if someone else is watching at the end.
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