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The last week of January, the site was intermittently serving back a 429 response (too many requests) as recorded by the wayback machine. https://web.archive.or

by shagie 7mo ago

The last week of January, the site was intermittently serving back a 429 response (too many requests) as recorded by the wayback machine. https://web.archive.org/web/20260000000000*/Zombo.com https://web.archive.org/web/20260000000000*/Zombo.com In the first week of February, the site was down. On the 8th, it was serving an error page from centos. On the 9th, it was serving the new content. https://lookup.icann.org/en/lookup https://lookup.icann.org/en/lookup for zombo.com shows that it was updated on 2026-02-09 20:34:17 UTC I believe that a more reasonable explanation would be that the domain name expired, someone saw that being the case, bought the domain name and hosted their own version of it. I'm not sure that "stolen" is the proper verb to use, or that "hacker" is the appropriate attribution.

bananaboy 7mo ago
Thank you for the explanation!
DANmode 7mo ago
That’s what the current page claims, legitimate registration by “New Management”. > Welcome to… New Management. This domain was purchased openly via GoDaddy. We come in peace (and with a wallet): we’d love to also purchase the rights to the former site's content to help revive the infinite. Until then, everything here is new & unique. Old content rights owners, please reach out. Anything is possible.
Sophira 7mo ago
> the domain name expired It's possible to tell from an rdap call that this isn't the case: Event: Action: registration Date: 1999-10-10T10:57:47Z Event: Action: expiration Date: 2028-10-10T10:57:47Z Event: Action: last changed Date: 2026-02-09T20:34:17Z The current registration occurred in 1999. Typically, domain registrations are extended in yearly multiples, which can be seen by the fact that it expires on October 10th, the same day that it was registered. If it expired in 2025, then that expiration would have occurred in October. That said, you are probably correct that it wasn't a hacker as such. GoDaddy was indeed offering it for sale in February, according to a Reddit thread from that month[0]. That makes me wonder why... [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/oldinternet/comments/1qy566h/is_zombocom_for_sale/ https://www.reddit.com/r/oldinternet/comments/1qy566h/is_zom...

by shagie 7mo ago

bananaboy 7mo ago

Thank you for the explanation!

DANmode 7mo ago

That’s what the current page claims, legitimate registration by “New Management”. > Welcome to… New Management. This domain was purchased openly via GoDaddy. We come in peace (and with a wallet): we’d love to also purchase the rights to the former site's content to help revive the infinite. Until then, everything here is new & unique. Old content rights owners, please reach out. Anything is possible.

Sophira 7mo ago

> the domain name expired It's possible to tell from an rdap call that this isn't the case: Event: Action: registration Date: 1999-10-10T10:57:47Z Event: Action: expiration Date: 2028-10-10T10:57:47Z Event: Action: last changed Date: 2026-02-09T20:34:17Z The current registration occurred in 1999. Typically, domain registrations are extended in yearly multiples, which can be seen by the fact that it expires on October 10th, the same day that it was registered. If it expired in 2025, then that expiration would have occurred in October. That said, you are probably correct that it wasn't a hacker as such. GoDaddy was indeed offering it for sale in February, according to a Reddit thread from that month[0]. That makes me wonder why... [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/oldinternet/comments/1qy566h/is_zombocom_for_sale/ https://www.reddit.com/r/oldinternet/comments/1qy566h/is_zom...