Apologies if this is not appropriate. I wasn’t sure where else to ask. Anyone know what happened to piefed.au. it’s just disappeared.
Apologies if this is not appropriate. I wasn’t sure where else to ask. Anyone know what happened to piefed.au. it’s just disappeared.
Hmm… it seems https://well-known.dev/sites/piefed.au last saw it around as of four days ago (saved for posterity at https://archive.ph/hjDuK ), but now I’m getting NXDOMAIN from chrome, so the registration just vanished.
Which is interesting because checking with GoDaddy WHOIS says, https://ca.godaddy.com/whois/results.aspx?domain=piefed.au
Suggesting that the DNS registration expired earlier, 9 days ago.
Alas, GoDaddy only gives a name - Chris Price - and no other useful contact info like an email address or phone number that can be used to reach out.
Of course, well-known also only found out about piefed.au in late October, while there’s evidence of it being around for much longer than that - e.g. https://lemmy.ca/post/45609571/17024992
However, when I look, I can’t find evidence of federation happening more recently than one month ago - e.g. https://al.lemmy.hostux.net/l.hostux.net/u/[email protected]
This makes me think that the admin planned to shut it down, and abandoned it approximately one month ago - but the hosting provider simply kept it around until now.