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Has vlemmy.net lost its domain name?
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this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2023
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How odd. Could it be an account hack? Server malfunction?
Really weird.
dynu.com is a dynamic dns service. I don't think the maintainer of vlemmy.net would be running the instance from a dhcp (variable) IP, to justify using dynamic dns.
Or is it usual for people to run instances from their homes using common ISP subscriber variable IP addresses?
Even more strange that it was registered just last month, according to whois. Is vlemmy.net that new?
Aren't many of these instances a product of the reddit migration? I don't expect the one I'm on to be much older.
Porkbun LLC is a DNS registrar, so maybe somebody didn't pay their bill?
Well, not being owned by a profit-driven evil stab-us-in-the-back company going IPO has advantages and disadvantages :-(
How bad could the bill have been? Was there any prior mention of server costs/donations before this?
I don't think it is a payment issue. At least in Brazil (where I live), a registration (which can be done directly with the .br registrar, not necessarily third parties) costs less than 10 USD a year.
vlemmy.net was registered less than 2 months ago, for 5 years. I suppose (hope) it was already paid for 5 years.
it's strange that it's parked at a dynamic dns service though