https://www.sav.com/auctions/details/7073489/hexbear.net
Update: it’s now US$1921.00
Someone is going to be left holding the bag with a useless .net domain
this post was submitted on 12 Feb 2025
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Someone is claiming to be the one of the bidders on hexbear right now
Probably a hexbear trolling other hexbears but w/e 🍿🍿🍿
Edited to clarify that I'm not calling Heaxbears "homeless."
The schadenfreude on Lemmy for Hexbear is somewhat disturbing to me. So you didn't like them. They are still people. Stop cheering things going badly for them. Do you laugh at homeless people, starving people, someone who falls down and gets injured?
Comparing to homeless people is a very poor comparison. Better to compare to a company with distasteful practices experiencing hardship. And yes in those cases I would laugh.
It's literally just a domain name after all
I wasn't comparing them to homeless people, though I see how that was derived. I was rather asking if people are completely devoid of empathy. More like, "do you laugh at the unfortunate."
I think the cheering is lame, but the instance itself will be fine under a new domain. I don't think it's sensible to compare laughing at Hexbear (which Hexbear users are also doing) with laughing at homeless people.
Should have used the word "unfortunate." "Homeless" was just the first word to come to mind for taking delight in a cruel fashion.
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.
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.
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.
I noticed the same - it is strange. And a lot of times they're raising the prices much more than necessary to outbid each other.
In special, half of the bids come from a single person, j_s_0e6b87. They're bidding since the beginning, and seem to follow no strategy - sometimes bidding $10 more than the top bid, sometimes way more. Either they're stinking rich to the point they don't care about the money, or they don't really care about the address, and want to inflate its price for whoever actually buys it.
The bidding gets extra time when people place a bid near the end, so you can't just snipe it.
Ah, bidding technology has advanced since I sniped Tony Hawk Pro-Skater for the Nintendo 64 on ebay. Why start bidding over a week early, though?
Dude I remember the hype around the last 5 mins of a GBA game auction on eBay, only to taste the disappointment when the price like doubled in the last 10 seconds
Nah eBay is still the same (sorry if I accidentally double posted)
JavaScript and PeePee are really going at it, huh.
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.
there's no way these aren't troll bids.
I'm guessing one of them is a hexbear admin and the other is a troll.
Hexbear admins decided pretty much right away not to engage in the auction. The bidding war is probably between someone with too much money and hate for hexbear, and an agent of the auctioneer driving up the price.
The admins have stated that they don't care about the domain, so it's probably either a troll or the crypto coin people trying to gain the domain.
I'm out of the loop, crypto coin people? Is there a hexbear crypto or something?
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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.
It's now edging up towards $2500!
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