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And transferred it away? Registrars make it really hard to do that if you're not the actual person. I'm finding it hard to believe someone can do this anonymously.
Yeah that’s because it’s not what happened. It’s a common expiration snipe.
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And transferred it away? Registrars make it really hard to do that if you're not the actual person. I'm finding it hard to believe someone can do this anonymously.
Yeah that’s because it’s not what happened. It’s a common expiration snipe.
html5 zombocom still exists, for your viewing pleasure. you can do anything at zombocom. anything at all. the only limit is yourself. [1]: https://html5zombo.com/
The last week of January, the site was intermittently serving back a 429 response (too many requests) as recorded by the wayback machine. https://web.archive.org/web/20260000000000*/Zombo.com In the first week of February, the site was down. On the 8th, it was serving an error page from centos. On the 9th, it was serving the new content. https://lookup.icann.org/en/lookup for zombo.com shows that it was updated on 20…
> Welcome to… New Management. This domain was purchased openly via GoDaddy. We come in peace (and with a wallet): we’d love to also purchase the rights to the former site's content to help revive the infinite. Until then, everything here is new & unique. Old content rights owners, please reach out. Anything is possible.
I ... honestly have very limited grounds for complaint here.
This is a real shame and I hope the original owners get it back... but that ai slop song is actually a banger
How does a hacker steal a website? So many questions.
Registration expires, someone snaps it up immediately. It happened to a customer of mine with a domain that was their name. It pointed at a page saying it was available for sale for $4000.
The last week of January, the site was intermittently serving back a 429 response (too many requests) as recorded by the wayback machine. https://web.archive.org/web/20260000000000*/Zombo.com In the first week of February, the site was down. On the 8th, it was serving an error page from centos. On the 9th, it was serving the new content. https://lookup.icann.org/en/lookup for zombo.com shows that it was updated on 20…
It's possible to tell from an rdap call that this isn't the case:
Event:
Action: registration
Date: 1999-10-10T10:57:47Z
Event:
Action: expiration
Date: 2028-10-10T10:57:47Z
Event:
Action: last changed
Date: 2026-02-09T20:34:17Z
If it expired in 2025, then that expiration would have occurred in October.
That said, you are probably correct that it wasn't a hacker as such. GoDaddy was indeed offering it for sale in February, according to a Reddit thread from that month[0]. That makes me wonder why...
[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/oldinternet/comments/1qy566h/is_zom...