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
Updated On
2025-11-20T15:43:38Z
Domain Status
server hold
server update prohibitedSuggesting 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/Linearity@piefed.au
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.
Thanks for that. Was that posted to a newsletter? I’m surprised I missed it if it was posted on piefed.au. IIRC, I joined there around September.
I’m assuming this email was sent to all addresses that people used to register to the server
Unfortunately, no. I didn’t receive it. I just checked.
The last time piefed.social received an activity from piefed.au is
2025-11-01 03:39:25.107725. I have no insight into their situation, but it might just be gone. Fediverse instances come and go sometimes.How long has the site been down, as far as you know?
Last snapshot in wayback machine is from last month
The weekend that piefed.social had its… issues (the first time), I checked piefed.au on the Friday to see if the problem was summit. It worked fine. When I returned on the Sunday, it was gone.
