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[-] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 3 points 5 days ago

Update? Seems hexbear is online again.

[-] x00z@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago

I have the feeling the first thing the new owner of this domain does is to get it the hell away from a domain stealing registrar.

[-] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 6 days ago

They literally all do this if you lapse on paying your registration fees. It's not like they seized it for other reasons and then auctioned it. Unlike whichever one we saw a while back seizing a fediverse domain for "CSAM" which literally amounted to a drawing of two high-school age girls kissing.

[-] sudo@programming.dev 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Someone is claiming to be the one of the bidders on hexbear right now

Probably a hexbear trolling other hexbears but w/e 🍿🍿🍿

[-] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Someone is going to be left holding the bag with a useless .net domain

[-] NastyNative@mander.xyz -1 points 5 days ago

Losing your domain is elementary…lol

[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 98 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Relevant to note that every other bid comes from the same bidder, j_s_0e6b87. Here's what I'm guessing about them:

  • They likely know about Hexbear, since they were bidding on the address right off the bat.
  • They aren't a domain squatter. A domain squatter would try to minimise the amount of money spent on a domain; and yet they're bidding too early, too frequently, and values considerably higher than the necessary to be the top bidder.
  • They aren't using automated tools, since the the times and values between the others' bids and theirs are too erratic.
  • Either they don't plan to actually win the bid, OR they have lots of money (to the point that US$710 is pocket change for them) and really, really bad blood against Hexbear.
[-] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 days ago

It's now edging up towards $2500!

[-] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 130 points 1 week ago

really, really bad blood against Hexbear.

[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 34 points 1 week ago

It narrows it down to people from instances that still federated with Hexbear and have money to spend on this stupid shit.

[-] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 35 points 1 week ago

Nah, there are plenty of people on unfederated instances who still obsess endlessly about hexbear.

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[-] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 1 week ago

Could be some crypto bros. Apparently they share name with some crypto currency

[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 32 points 1 week ago

I gave it a check, and apparently it's a dead cryptocoin. CoinGecko doesn't even list it, Etherscan gives it a market cap of $0.00, and the last transaction was 886d ago. Plus they already have a domain.

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[-] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 55 points 1 week ago

Guys, they already switched to chapo.chat, all you're doing is emptying your pockets to give to some criminals.

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[-] Sal@mander.xyz 39 points 1 week ago

I find it strange that they are out-bidding each other like this when there are over 8 days left. I am not too experienced with bidding, but I thought that the normal strategy was to maybe place a placeholder bid if there is no activity, but more generally one waits until the last second to set a reasonably high bid. Going on a 1v1 with fast out-bidding over a week early seems bad for everyone except the seller. Perhaps someone can explain.

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[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 39 points 1 week ago

Update: it's now US$1921.00. Some PP (p_p_822628) is trying to outbid JS (j_s_0e6b87), who has been competing since the start.

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[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 31 points 1 week ago

To the moon!

This is a stable investment, right guys?...

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