Hello users of hexbear, or shall i say chapo.chat, we fucked up, and i fucked up like three times making this post.
Yes, hexbear.net has expired. Yes, we were aware of this possibility. We have gradually lost contact with the access owner (prior admin) for the domain registration. We attempted to make a migration plan, but we were disarmed by the reappearance of the party in question in September 2024 and repeated assurances that they would a) transfer credentials and b) continue payments until they were able to do the former.
We accept full responsibility for this. We should have been more aggressive about this and continued our alternative despite these reassurances. This is our fuck up, and we can’t offer anything besides our continued apologies and our plan of action going forward and an explanation of what happened:
Over the time of chapo.chat and hexbear.net the admins that purchased the domain, established the donation accounts, and the server accounts have left. One of the primary admins has gone inactive and returned many times, over a year ago some of the newer admins began asking the older admins to give full access to the domain, servers, and donations. These requests were not met, despite warnings of this exact event.
At the moment we do not have access to hexbear.net and there is a strong chance we will not get it back without participating in the auction, which is already over $300. Choosing to abandon the hexbear.net domain will cause federation problems and considerable technical issues which would lead to potential extended downtime.
During this downtime we would be reestablishing access to the new domain (or hexbear.net if we win the auction), access to server ownership, and donation accounts. This would be distributed among a number of admins so that we can prevent this from happening again.
Chapo.chat has the same access problem that led to the current state of hexbear.net so it is to be considered temporary.
I will do my best to answer questions
Please reply to this comment with name suggestions in the event we have to change from hexbear.net
Hexbear.chat
Yeah I’d rather the site stay hexbear. Almost any tld is fine.
Some has already taken it!
Created: 2025-02-11 21:24:22 UTCIt was taken by one of us on the mod team, so it’s safe.
dialectics
Actually not bad
i’m with the folks wanting different variations of hexbear (.zone/.space/.chat/.red)
Would make it a lot easier for people, who are currently in the dark about current events, finding this place again.
FINALLY! Finally it is time for hereshowberniecanstill.win
Do we not have the other half of the meme? Something we should rectify on the new raebxeh.net
hexbear.zone
Someone here already registered hexbear.gay that redirects to a community here, if getting access is an option. Fits with the majority of the userbase.
I like it
They tried to take us down but they only made us stronger
Chuds: Heh I’ll show those stupid hexberians, “hexbear.GAY”
Bear Site Folks: Cool, thank you!
Obvious option would be hexbear with an alternative to .net, like .su or something. Although sometimes .su gets auto flagged as malicious since there isn’t a Soviet Union anymore, idk
we could maybe get a cn or hk domain that may get us unbanned in china
.su requires a Russian passport AFAIK.
Any passport works, it doesn’t have to be a Russian one. They started requiring valid documentation after the it started becoming a hot bed for crime rings since it has almost no moderation. The downside is that the domain is registered under someone’s real name and even though WHOIS protection is avaliable for the .su TLD, I’m not sure that I’d trust any registrar to not get socially engineered into handing over who registered/owns a domain registered with them to a malicious actor.
Kinda off topic but I highly rec this network of websites: https://sovnet.su/ for any other .su enjoyers who want to see a good “What if the USSR survived into the late 90s internet age?” LARP :3
You can also get registrations at the third level of .su without a passport, I think some of them are even under the original second level domains that were set up when the USSR/RSFSR/whatever-the-Russian-Federation-was-doing-up-until-1993-lol connected to the internet which is kinda cool :3 Like we could get something like hexbear.exnet.su or similar but idk if we wanna do that
I have a friend who is willing to help us get hexbear.su. I don’t have a Russian passport, so the stability will be an issue, but we could get it for the bit. Should I pursue this?
Never mind, I didn’t realize that an Amerikkkan passport works for .su
Whitehouse.gov
Would it be possible to contact the toots.matapacos.dog people and agree to share a second-level domain with them? So Hextube would become live.matapacos.dog, Hexbear could become… I’m not sure. It could take over matapacos.dog — which is currently just a static image of Matapacos that redirects to readsettlers.org after a few seconds — or Hexbear could take on any number of subdomains under matapacos.dog.
Put simply, with this approach we’d sort of pull a blahaj.zone vs lemmy.blahaj.zone and have two distinct fediverse instances sharing a “brand” without actually being the same site per se. When these two instances already have such close ties, I don’t see why we shouldn’t try to pool more resources, up to and including sharing a second-level domain, right?
…Or maybe this is a terrible idea and I’m just talking out my ass.
I think the best option is some variation of hexbear as opposed to a whole new name. The only problem I could see from that is if whoever ends up buying the original domain redirects it to something horrible. Probably wouldn’t want a similar domain name in that instance.
hexbear.red
donothing.win
Chapo.chat
this domain name has the same issue that caused the hexbear.net outage
shitbird.com
communismwill.win
hexbear.xyz is a cheap stopgap. If we prefer to take the opportunity to change the name, a number of more explicitly communist domains are available, such as red.forum joke options: thebigcommunism.builders chinese.bot
IMO, the thing I like about chapo.chat and hexbear is that they’re not explicitly communist themed.
beanis.chat
Anything in the
.cn,.vn, or.lanamespaces would be funny, for obvious reasons..cnis quite expensive, about $32/year, and requires you to either prove your identity or use a registrar (like 101domains) who will register it under their contact information for you..vnand.laare much cheaper and are available to anyone.Pick your path, we’re either Chinese, Vietnamese, or Laos bots.
—So are you Chinese or Vietnamese?
—We’re Laotian.
—The ocean? What ocean?
I got hexbear.net.cn for pretty cheap and it does appear they want you to provide ID that matches the registration info. I’m not gonna do that, but I’d be happy to pass it onto someone else who could make use of it.
Is .su available?
Yes, but it requires you to verify your identity with pictures of your passport which I’m sure no one wants to do for security reasons.
stacking.rocks
What about hexbear.ml?
chapo dot chat
hexbear dot
link to punchline since some users can’t see emojis
hexbear.zone
I don’t have a specific rec, just want to share a couple thoughts.
I like the idea of an .su domain, but that’s not so important, if it wasn’t something like .su then I like the idea of .lgbt. My more crucial point is that I personally want to avoid chapo related names. I’ve never listened to the podcast and I joined this site almost a year ago. I feel like I’m not one of the only post-chapo people, and I think that the name of the site and its communities should refect its growth beyond a subreddit. Emojis and such are fine, but I don’t feel like any sort of return or reference is needed. Essentially a vote against chapo.(whatever) plus reasoning.
Hexbear dot Chat
exbear.netis available and you could make ith.exbear.nethexbear.social
ursusfront
Hexbear.lgbt
Hasanabifan.site
Hexbear dot io is a bitcoin website btw.
exbear.net septbear.chat hexchap.chat
With honeybear, honey.tube could be bought for around $100 but the yearly cost will be around $22.
chapoverse.net
hexbear.net.cn
sickobear dot net
X.com
Hear me out… icosahedronbear.net
i don’t have a specific name in mind, but what about something to do with orcas?
there is already a lemmy instance orcas.enjoying.yachts
dopeassbear.net
Are we able to use .SU?
it’s a shame the .baseball domain hasn’t launched yet that would have been kinda funny
netbear.hex
reposting my comment here
I genuinely think Hexbear is pretty shit of a name (and always have sorry) especially since we share it with a shitcoin. But tbh if the name is so important to federation, surely we could crowdfund the $300 or whatever the registar’s trying to squeeze out of us for the domain. MutualAid has led me to believe this could work. edit: nevermind I see the auction is now up to $505.00 which is insane but who knows maybe this is one of our comrades doing their part to secure the domain for us!
Chapo.chat will probably be cheaper when it expires so honestly my vote is to reclaim chapo.chat using crowdfunding
BernieCanStillWin.org is my backup vote.
hexbear.zone
hexbear.chat
What if we named it after Hank, the rotund female black bear that was posted a couple days ago? Keeps with the bear image, and embraces queer/trans folk.
RentFr.ee