⚠️ SITE MIGRATION UPDATE

UPDATE: It has come to our attention that the auction for hexbearnet has ended, and our pending transfer out of Sav appears to have gone through. There is still significant uncertainty surrounding the domain and what will happen, but we are cautiously optimistic that it will at least not fall into actively malicious hands.

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Glad it's resolved: If anyone is curious on the behind-the-scenes the js bidder was planning to return the domain but maybe not in the best way. They found a bug in Sav's site that allowed them to bid without authorizations being placed, and on another account they managed to "win an auction" for low dollar value domain AND transferred it out somehow. Maybe they noticed, might be why their auction interface was in maintenance mode immediately as this was going on (archive from 19 Feb 2025 10:26:35 UTC https://archive.is/qsVg6 ).
- I’m j_k, so I was the highest authentic bidder? That could’ve bit me in the ass lol
  
  john_kerry?
  
  Banned for kerryposting
  
  john_kennedy? JFK Jr. lives!
  
  i would've worked on finding a way to reimburse a good portion of the cost if that happened.
  
  Nah I would’ve taken the hit, and like the authoritarian tankie I am, ruled the site with an iron beanis
  
  Inb4 we move the site anyways to own the dictator-and-beanis
- It doesn't seem like that's what happened here, considering the auction ended prematurely and the transfer was initiated days ago judging by the whois history
  but then also carcosa said "we are still going forward with hexbear.chat" below so who knows wtf the status is
  
  No they didn't win, the auction was cancelled and the domain transferred probably independently. But I wouldn't be surprised if they found the bug and that's why they were in maintenance.
  If anyone really cares that much, they'll share the account details and people can login to see their bidder name. Who knows if it would've worked, they might have actually checked that the payment cleared for a 2500$ domain or whatever it ended up being.
  
  oh gotcha
  interesting tbh, Sav seem really incompetent
  
  they a registrar, u can assume
- That's cool as hell actually
- I've been wondering about the odds that once bidding ended someone here would come out and be like "btw I got the domain"

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