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SubtlePatterns.com has been hijacked.
- justindocanto 14y agoYou can see the domain in it's current state here: http://www.subtlepatterns.com http://www.subtlepatterns.com There's a facebook post from the official subtlepatterns.com facebook page acknowledging the hijacking here: https://www.facebook.com/subtlepatterns/posts/440435196007418 https://www.facebook.com/subtlepatterns/posts/44043519600741...
- narad 14y agoCurrently, the owner name is shown as some one from Amsterdam. http://who.is/domain_archive-com/subtlepatterns.com/ http://who.is/domain_archive-com/subtlepatterns.com/
- tzaman 14y agoGood luck resolving this issue. I wonder what it would take to completely prevent this kind of stuff from happening.
- Kiro 14y agoWhat happened?
- evilmoo 14y agoI think it's more a case of "I forgot to renew the domain and someone jumped in and re-registered it" rather than "My site has been hijacked" This has happened in the past: http://www.out-law.com/page-4049 http://www.out-law.com/page-4049
- sordidfellow 14y agoThe whois shows that it previously expired in April 2012. I thought most registrations were for 1 year increments, so this would be a strange time for a expiration.
- MalphasWats 14y agoThere's a fairly long grace period after initial expiration when a domain is expired but can't be re-registered. It allows for the original owner to get it back (for a larger fee) before it's sniped by the next person.
- Kudos 14y ago45 days. So that doesn't explain it either. http://www.icann.org/en/resources/registrars/accreditation/eddp http://www.icann.org/en/resources/registrars/accreditation/e...
- MalphasWats 14y agoHmm, not as long as I thought then! Skulduggery Afoot!
- xtdx 14y agoNothing requires the new owner to immediately change DNS...
- mistercow 14y agoThe update date was 9/17, which presumably reflects the date of transfer. So this just happened today.
- xtdx 14y agoWell, an update was today. Perhaps another transfer? We don't quite have all the facts.
- mistercow 14y agoTheir twitter says it was on auto-renew, and their domain is through the same company as their hosting. If their autorenew didn't go through, their hosting probably wouldn't either, so it's hard to believe that their host would have let them skate by for five months without payment.
- thekevan 14y agoThe domain was not due to expire and according to their Twitter feed, they have auto-renew enabled as well. It was stolen/hijacked.
- robotmay 14y agoGah, that's a shame; I use SP quite regularly.
- jeffehobbs 14y agoBoooo! This site is a well-organized, wonderful resource. Here's hoping it can get back to normal soon.
- manishsp 14y agoGet well soon www.subtlepatterns.com
- nshankar 14y agosubtlepatterns 1st page is coming nice but shows all patterns other than Subtle on page 2.
- skun 14y agoGeez. I just used SP like yesterday ! Hope it gets ok soon !
- purephase 14y agoWell this is unfortunate. Hope it gets fixed soon as it is a great resource.
- JohnHaugeland 14y agoIt's a domain squatter. He's not getting it back without a ton of money, and if we're naive enough to kickstarter, then everyone's domain will get steal-squatted for the rest of time. Sadly, the current nature of domain protection law means either one has to scare the squatter (doesn't work,) find a squatter with a heart of gold (doesn't exist,) or get a new domain. :(
- abailin 14y agoAny idea how much squatters like this charge for the domain back? $1k? $10k? svbtlepatterns.com is always available.
- mtrimpe 14y agoJust gave him a call and the opening bid was €2000 "for a fast transfer."
- JohnHaugeland 14y agoGood. Now you have evidence of criminal intent. Someone took something through false manipulation of a system, then attempted to set a price to give you your own things back. And they chose a price that's well into the serious range for just about every country (in the United States that's felony grand larceny.)
- citricsquid 14y agomaybe, just maybe, people should renew their domains if they want to keep them? and if the domain was stolen calling the thief a "squatter" is inaccurate. A squatter is someone that obtains domains legitimately.
- mistercow 14y agoCheck the whois. The expiration was 4/18, so it doesn't look like they let it expire.
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- carlsednaoui 14y agoYou can also download the patterns from their github repo: https://github.com/subtlepatterns/SubtlePatterns https://github.com/subtlepatterns/SubtlePatterns Edit: And here is their famous photoshop .pat file containing all the patterns: https://github.com/subtlepatterns/SubtlePatterns/blob/master/SubtlePatterns.pat.zip https://github.com/subtlepatterns/SubtlePatterns/blob/master...
- jumpbug 14y agoIt doesn't look like it expired, it just looks like someone stole it from his account. I think more appropriately the person should be called a domain thief
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- jneal 14y agoSpeaking from experience, getting a domain back after it has been hijacked is very costly and timely, and ends up being cheaper just to buy the domain back from the hijacker. It's stupid, but unless you have a contact with a registrar that understands what happened and is willing to work hard for you to get your domain back, you are stuck. I hope I'm wrong, and best of luck getting everything back to normal!
- Jinyoung 14y agoDon't f'ing pay those bastards. I realize that it's cheaper to pay them than fight them. I would love love to see you raise money online and fight them instead. I would buy into this cause in a heartbeat.
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- mrgreenfur 14y agoAnyone know how the domain was hijacked? If it wasn't an expiration issue, I'd like to know how to protect myself from this. Did they login to his DNS account?
- TallboyOne 14y agoI would like to know this as well. Considering the registrar itself is pretty secure maybe he had some kind of keylogger on his computer, and they logged into his account?
- Lasher 14y agoI leased my car for 3 years then I didn't renew it and they sent multiple notifications to my last contact address and finally repossessed the car a few months after I stopped making payments. Now some car squatter has hijacked it and has my car on a parking lot. They're not even driving it!!! Why is this even legal!??!
- mistercow 14y agoCheck the site's twitter and the whois. The domain didn't expire. It was on autorenew and, in any case, has an April expiration, so that explanation makes no sense.
- Lasher 14y agoBtw, I do completely sympathize with the situation itself, it sucks. But name-calling the new owner of the domain, who almost definitely acquired it legally, and is the only person able to make the decision to return it, does not seem very smart.
- thekevan 14y agoThe domain was not due to expire and according to their Twitter feed, they have auto-renew enabled as well. It was stolen/hijacked.
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