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Sorry if this is :late:, I was only skimming once the thread hit 800 pages (congrats, BTW), but can anybody confirm if Hiveworks is still hosting the Floraverse website? I thought I saw a post where it said it was being hosted on Eevee's domain, but I don't know if that was recently uncovered or what.
I wish you'd read the thread before asking. The person who replied to you is also wrong.
Seems like it's not, but pretty much everyone who had anything to do with PK is purging, even proxy fans.
Eevee hosts the fucking site. I explained how I figured this out here:
Don't do this. Spamming abuse reports does not resolve an issue. It's some bullshit tumblr kids do and is the epitome of slacktivism. This website has been subject to untold hundreds of reports like this.
You did a lazy WHOIS lookup for the domain and saw it was registered to a Dreamhost private client, exactly like kiwifarms.net was, but we are not hosted by Dreamhost. The registrar and the host are not the same.
The nameservers point to Linode, but nameservers are not always the host either.
Name Server: NS1.LINODE.COM
Name Server: NS2.LINODE.COM
So then, you do an 'A' record lookup using those DNS servers to resolve the ip.
173.255.210.122
Now you consult the IP assignment directory to figure out who owns that IP.
Hostname: rankurusu.veekun.com
ISP: Linode
Organization: Linode
Linode does host it, but in this fun journey of exploration we've found out that the reverse DNS for the IP points to this "veekun.com" website. Sometimes, people renting IPs from big companies like Linode do a reverse DNS assignment. In the same way veekun.com translates to 173.255.210.122, 173.255.210.122 translates to rankurusu.veekun.com in the DNS lookups.
The person who runs https://veekun.com/ ( https://archive.is/1oXvL ) also operates Floraverse's website. Linode probably won't cancel their hosting, but Veekun might.
For kicks, we can whois veekun. I have, and it has no details. veekun.com was registered in 2005 and thus is lacking WHOIS contact information. This is against ICANN (the owner of .COM and all .COM websites)'s policy, which came about only recently. I'll report it to ICANN for lacking WHOIS information, which should get their attention. If you want to peer down the veekun website's rabbit hole, go ahead, but don't file abuse reports if you don't know what you're doing. That's stupid and it waste working professional's time on issues which may not even be theirs to resolve.
Edit: Here's the receipt for the report. Doubling up reports does not expedite the issue. It only needs to be raised once.
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