NexusBytes' off the radar. Backup/retrieve your data!

Neoon

@yoursunny said:

@Neoon said:

@JabJab said:

@Neoon said: Your domain should be safe, the registry will take care of the domain.

Now for a sad surprise - seems like NB registered domains with theirs data rather than customer one.

Then legally, the domain does not belong to you, rip.
Pretty bad if the LLC goes belly up.

Guess who else does this?
https://incognet.io/anonymous-domains

Who owns the domain name?

@MannDude registration service is similar to other anonymous domain registration services, in which we are more or less acting as a 3rd party proxy between the domain registar and you.
As such, we “technically” own the domain.
You control the nameservers, and you’re free to transfer it to another registar as well where you will use your information to take control over it.
Part of the domain ordering process with us is that our company name, address, and other contact information is used when placing the order with the registar.
Your information is never given to them, hence, privacy.

@yoursunny said:
Plot twist: seriesn and MannDude is the same person.

If you trust @MannDude and they don't go belly up, it should be fine.

However, I can only assume, that if a company goes belly up, they grab every asset they can get the hands on and sell it, including domains and since it says they belong to the LLC, have fun getting them back in your hands.

yoursunny

@Neoon said:

@yoursunny said:

@Neoon said:

@JabJab said:

@Neoon said: Your domain should be safe, the registry will take care of the domain.

Now for a sad surprise - seems like NB registered domains with theirs data rather than customer one.

Then legally, the domain does not belong to you, rip.
Pretty bad if the LLC goes belly up.

Guess who else does this?
https://incognet.io/anonymous-domains

Who owns the domain name?

@MannDude registration service is similar to other anonymous domain registration services, in which we are more or less acting as a 3rd party proxy between the domain registar and you.
As such, we “technically” own the domain.
You control the nameservers, and you’re free to transfer it to another registar as well where you will use your information to take control over it.
Part of the domain ordering process with us is that our company name, address, and other contact information is used when placing the order with the registar.
Your information is never given to them, hence, privacy.

@yoursunny said:
Plot twist: seriesn and MannDude is the same person.

If you trust @MannDude and they don't go belly up, it should be fine.

However, I can only assume, that if a company goes belly up, they grab every asset they can get the hands on and sell it, including domains and since it says they belong to the LLC, have fun getting them back in your hands.

Every person will die, sooner or later.
Every company will bankrupt, sooner or later.

Remember, ICANN is a company too.
When ICANN ceases to exist, all the domains are gone, and we are back to typing IP addresses.
Hence, remember the IP addresses of your favorite websites, and don't rely on domain names.

MGarbis

@DP said:

@MGarbis said: It's sinking soon

What do you mean soon?

The unmanned ship has been sinking slowly for a while now

The relevant parties are doing their best to support/assist the customers and their data where possible.

Sorry my bad english. Is sunken soon. Maybe that's better?

Neoon

@yoursunny said:

@Neoon said:

@yoursunny said:

@Neoon said:

@JabJab said:

@Neoon said: Your domain should be safe, the registry will take care of the domain.

Now for a sad surprise - seems like NB registered domains with theirs data rather than customer one.

Then legally, the domain does not belong to you, rip.
Pretty bad if the LLC goes belly up.

Guess who else does this?
https://incognet.io/anonymous-domains

Who owns the domain name?

@MannDude registration service is similar to other anonymous domain registration services, in which we are more or less acting as a 3rd party proxy between the domain registar and you.
As such, we “technically” own the domain.
You control the nameservers, and you’re free to transfer it to another registar as well where you will use your information to take control over it.
Part of the domain ordering process with us is that our company name, address, and other contact information is used when placing the order with the registar.
Your information is never given to them, hence, privacy.

@yoursunny said:
Plot twist: seriesn and MannDude is the same person.

If you trust @MannDude and they don't go belly up, it should be fine.

However, I can only assume, that if a company goes belly up, they grab every asset they can get the hands on and sell it, including domains and since it says they belong to the LLC, have fun getting them back in your hands.

Every person will die, sooner or later.

True, I know people that died while taking a shit, must have been a true blast.
You never know when it will hit you.

Every company will bankrupt, sooner or later.

Remember, ICANN is a company too.

ICAAN will surely get bailed out, like the banks.
If you are to big to fail, you get bailed out by tax payers money.

angstrom

@Neoon said:

@yoursunny said:
Every company will bankrupt, sooner or later.

Remember, ICANN is a company too.

ICAAN will surely get bailed out, like the banks.
If you are to big to fail, you get bailed out by tax payers money.

Just to clarify that ICANN is a nonprofit corporation under California law, so the risk to taxpayers is much lower than in the case of banks (or car manufacturers)

JabJab

INCOGNET is very open how it works and they call it Private/anonymous domains - I don't recall such service/description for NB.

I really really hope that some people that had backups and were kinda ready for this won't just discover that they do not own the domains [like wtf?] and whole backup is useless as you lost domain and whole brand/traffic...

FrankRuan

@yoursunny said:

@Neoon said:

@yoursunny said:

@Neoon said:

@JabJab said:

@Neoon said: Your domain should be safe, the registry will take care of the domain.

Now for a sad surprise - seems like NB registered domains with theirs data rather than customer one.

Then legally, the domain does not belong to you, rip.
Pretty bad if the LLC goes belly up.

Guess who else does this?
https://incognet.io/anonymous-domains

Who owns the domain name?

@MannDude registration service is similar to other anonymous domain registration services, in which we are more or less acting as a 3rd party proxy between the domain registar and you.
As such, we “technically” own the domain.
You control the nameservers, and you’re free to transfer it to another registar as well where you will use your information to take control over it.
Part of the domain ordering process with us is that our company name, address, and other contact information is used when placing the order with the registar.
Your information is never given to them, hence, privacy.

@yoursunny said:
Plot twist: seriesn and MannDude is the same person.

If you trust @MannDude and they don't go belly up, it should be fine.

However, I can only assume, that if a company goes belly up, they grab every asset they can get the hands on and sell it, including domains and since it says they belong to the LLC, have fun getting them back in your hands.

Every person will die, sooner or later.
Every company will bankrupt, sooner or later.

Remember, ICANN is a company too.
When ICANN ceases to exist, all the domains are gone, and we are back to typing IP addresses.
Hence, remember the IP addresses of your favorite websites, and don't rely on domain names.

Mr. CDN & Mr. Anycast: oh do u really want to type an IP address?

corbpie

@MGarbis said:

It's sinking soon. My storage is still working but I'm fully prepared. It was fun like it was with @cociu and @HostDoc etc. Nothing lasts forever.

//edit wrong url

Lol at the image choice 😉

MannDude

@JabJab said:
INCOGNET is very open how it works and they call it Private/anonymous domains - I don't recall such service/description for NB.

Yeah. It's a real pain in the ass to manage, too. After a few hundred registrations I'm looking forward to @Francisco's NameCrane and hopefully their integration into WHMCS that will make some of the things I currently have to do manually, automated. We'll be reselling from NameCrane when available.

Right now we process all domain stuff manually, namely because we use two registars and WHMCS can't check both for premium domain pricing status which means an unsupported TLD at the registar configured for checking "premium domains" doesn't work for TLDs we use the other registar for. (Sorry, not getting a $1500 domain for $15), plus manual review let's us deny obvious fraud/phishing domains like 'chase-account.xyz' or something.

Ympker

@yoursunny said:

@Neoon said:

@yoursunny said:

@Neoon said:

@JabJab said:

@Neoon said: Your domain should be safe, the registry will take care of the domain.

Now for a sad surprise - seems like NB registered domains with theirs data rather than customer one.

Then legally, the domain does not belong to you, rip.
Pretty bad if the LLC goes belly up.

Guess who else does this?
https://incognet.io/anonymous-domains

Who owns the domain name?

@MannDude registration service is similar to other anonymous domain registration services, in which we are more or less acting as a 3rd party proxy between the domain registar and you.
As such, we “technically” own the domain.
You control the nameservers, and you’re free to transfer it to another registar as well where you will use your information to take control over it.
Part of the domain ordering process with us is that our company name, address, and other contact information is used when placing the order with the registar.
Your information is never given to them, hence, privacy.

@yoursunny said:
Plot twist: seriesn and MannDude is the same person.

If you trust @MannDude and they don't go belly up, it should be fine.

However, I can only assume, that if a company goes belly up, they grab every asset they can get the hands on and sell it, including domains and since it says they belong to the LLC, have fun getting them back in your hands.

Every person will die, sooner or later.
Every company will bankrupt, sooner or later.

Remember, ICANN is a company too.
When ICANN ceases to exist, all the domains are gone, and we are back to typing IP addresses.
Hence, remember the IP addresses of your favorite websites, and don't rely on domain names.

Hence why we need IPv9

jar

@LTniger said:

@Arkas said:

@LTniger said: Why you dont zero stocks of products? Put the damn whmcs into maintenance mode, allow only registered customers to login. Send mass emails with updates to clients about the situation and what to do. Save victims.

Do you ever have anything positive or even remotely realistic to contribute in this situation? To me, it just seems that you want to exacerbate the circumstance.

I want to escalate this as a proper scam. Or is it normal to support exit scammers and just ignore the hard fact that major part of clientele will loose data and money due these events?

Sugar coating, defending person in blame is not normal! Stop it. Same thing was with Borta.

Negative situations should receive negative reactions. It is called consequences.

I mean you’re not wrong. If I take off my MXroute hat and set aside that I personally like the owner of NB, your response is the only logical one for me to arrive at.

Of course I’m obligated to wear those other hats, those are my circumstances, it doesn’t obligate you to wear them with me. It doesn’t change that the response is logical.

Francisco

@MannDude said:

@JabJab said:
INCOGNET is very open how it works and they call it Private/anonymous domains - I don't recall such service/description for NB.

Yeah. It's a real pain in the ass to manage, too. After a few hundred registrations I'm looking forward to @Francisco's NameCrane and hopefully their integration into WHMCS that will make some of the things I currently have to do manually, automated. We'll be reselling from NameCrane when available.

Right now we process all domain stuff manually, namely because we use two registars and WHMCS can't check both for premium domain pricing status which means an unsupported TLD at the registar configured for checking "premium domains" doesn't work for TLDs we use the other registar for. (Sorry, not getting a $1500 domain for $15), plus manual review let's us deny obvious fraud/phishing domains like 'chase-account.xyz' or something.

Finally putting time into getting NC going. Depending on the route I take it'll either have a WHMCS & Hostbill module, or a WHMCS & Blesta module. Basically comes down to if we're using WHMCS or Hostbill as the base billing system.

Francisco

HalfEatenPie

@Francisco said: Finally putting time into getting NC going. Depending on the route I take it'll either have a WHMCS & Hostbill module, or a WHMCS & Blesta module. Basically comes down to if we're using WHMCS or Hostbill as the base billing system.

Francisco

How much does it cost to maintain a blesta module. I might be happy to help fund it if needed.

Francisco

@HalfEatenPie said:

@Francisco said: Finally putting time into getting NC going. Depending on the route I take it'll either have a WHMCS & Hostbill module, or a WHMCS & Blesta module. Basically comes down to if we're using WHMCS or Hostbill as the base billing system.

Francisco

How much does it cost to maintain a blesta module. I might be happy to bankroll it if needed.

I would just build the module, it’s just what is available day 1. Depending on how timelines I would aim to cover all 3 for day 1.

We obviously want to cover as many resellers as possible

Francisco

HalfEatenPie

@Francisco said:

@HalfEatenPie said:

@Francisco said: Finally putting time into getting NC going. Depending on the route I take it'll either have a WHMCS & Hostbill module, or a WHMCS & Blesta module. Basically comes down to if we're using WHMCS or Hostbill as the base billing system.

Francisco

How much does it cost to maintain a blesta module. I might be happy to bankroll it if needed.

I would just build the module, it’s just what is available day 1. Depending on how timelines I would aim to cover all 3 for day 1.

We obviously want to cover as many resellers as possible

Francisco

You sexy beast.

ascicode

If someone accessing Nexus Bytes through smallweb.net, the domain expires on 6th of february 2023, but says updated 14th of january 2023, @MichaelCee still your domain?

angstrom

@ascicode said:
If someone accessing Nexus Bytes through smallweb.net, the domain expires on 6th of february 2023, but says updated 14th of january 2023, @MichaelCee still your domain?

@MichaelCee isn't active here anymore, but it would greatly surprise me if the domain smallweb.net wasn't included in the sale to NB (along with the company)

jlet88

I really respect how the community is coming together to notify and help those affected by this situation. I don't have anything with NexusBytes, but it's classy of you guys to come together like this, and if I were on the receiving end of this, I'd be very grateful! Kudos to the helpers!

MikeA

@Francisco said:
Finally putting time into getting NC going. Depending on the route I take it'll either have a WHMCS & Hostbill module, or a WHMCS & Blesta module. Basically comes down to if we're using WHMCS or Hostbill as the base billing system.

Francisco

I also await to see how NC goes!

bdl

@ascicode said:
If someone accessing Nexus Bytes through smallweb.net, the domain expires on 6th of february 2023, but says updated 14th of january 2023, @MichaelCee still your domain?

That's the situation my domain was in. Answer is no.

msallak1

It would be nice if a new post can be created and gets updated with status of nodes , which ones are going down and when and only moderators or just @Jord add comments to it whenever a new information are available.

Jord

@msallak1 said:
It would be nice if a new post can be created and gets updated with status of nodes , which ones are going down and when and only moderators or just @Jord add comments to it whenever a new information are available.

Unfortunately we don’t know when they are going down, I’d suggest getting any backups you can while you can, Melbourne, Japan and Singapore will be going down this week, so there aren’t many locations left.

HalfEatenPie

Also lowendtalk isn't a helpdesk for NexusBytes

swat4

@swat4 said:

@bdl said:

@JabJab said:

@swat4 said: same here... got a domain there but the button of getting the auth code has gone.
Jord Is there anyway you can help out? Many thanks.

Most likely not, previous quote:

Jord said:
Unfortunately, I don't have access to Namesilo, I only have access to the .co.uk one SmallWeb used, I can't even get the EPP code from within Blesta as Namesilo emails it, which is rather annoying. Sorry about that.

---

@Neoon said: Your domain should be safe, the registry will take care of the domain.

Now for a sad surprise - seems like NB registered domains with theirs data rather than customer one.

bdl said:
Thanks! oof - no EPP on portal, blesta shows "Nexus bytes" as registrant/admin/tech/billing contacts and whois shows namesilo as registrar with contacts obfuscated due to whois protection.

---

@bdl how your Namesilo e-mails going? Any update/tutorial for people?

Hi all,

Still going through their process listed at https://www.namesilo.com/support/v2/articles/policies/reseller-complaints - I'm at step 4 at the moment after they've attempted to make contact and wait 24 hours. I've forwarded my receipt of the most recent renewal of my domain to them and am waiting a response. I'll report back if anything changes... a lot of it is just waiting for timeouts after Namesilo and myself try and make contact.. Now that NB's mail server seems to be bouncing the whois protection contact email, things may be a little quicker.

I'll report back as I continue to follow the bouncing ball! My advice is this point is to go through your records and find your receipts for the most recent renewal of your domain and/or when you purchased it. I'm not sure if NB's client portal is available at the moment however if so, download it if you can!

Thanks gents for the input.

Just heard back from Namesilo, who asked me to email Nexusbytes and keep them in cc.

The latest update from Namesilo:

Hello,
We have reached out to the reseller.
Please let us know if the issue is not resolved after 24 hours.
Kind Regards,
NameSilo Support Team

@plumberg As discussed, my apologies in advance for the inconvenience. Given that Namesilo is very responsive via email, I trust the issue would be resolved in a professional way.

plumberg

@swat4 said:

@swat4 said:

@bdl said:

@JabJab said:

@swat4 said: same here... got a domain there but the button of getting the auth code has gone.
Jord Is there anyway you can help out? Many thanks.

Most likely not, previous quote:

Jord said:
Unfortunately, I don't have access to Namesilo, I only have access to the .co.uk one SmallWeb used, I can't even get the EPP code from within Blesta as Namesilo emails it, which is rather annoying. Sorry about that.

---

@Neoon said: Your domain should be safe, the registry will take care of the domain.

Now for a sad surprise - seems like NB registered domains with theirs data rather than customer one.

bdl said:
Thanks! oof - no EPP on portal, blesta shows "Nexus bytes" as registrant/admin/tech/billing contacts and whois shows namesilo as registrar with contacts obfuscated due to whois protection.

---

@bdl how your Namesilo e-mails going? Any update/tutorial for people?

Hi all,

Still going through their process listed at https://www.namesilo.com/support/v2/articles/policies/reseller-complaints - I'm at step 4 at the moment after they've attempted to make contact and wait 24 hours. I've forwarded my receipt of the most recent renewal of my domain to them and am waiting a response. I'll report back if anything changes... a lot of it is just waiting for timeouts after Namesilo and myself try and make contact.. Now that NB's mail server seems to be bouncing the whois protection contact email, things may be a little quicker.

I'll report back as I continue to follow the bouncing ball! My advice is this point is to go through your records and find your receipts for the most recent renewal of your domain and/or when you purchased it. I'm not sure if NB's client portal is available at the moment however if so, download it if you can!

Thanks gents for the input.

Just heard back from Namesilo, who asked me to email Nexusbytes and keep them in cc.

The latest update from Namesilo:

Hello,
We have reached out to the reseller.
Please let us know if the issue is not resolved after 24 hours.
Kind Regards,
NameSilo Support Team

@plumberg As discussed, my apologies in advance for the inconvenience. Given that Namesilo is very responsive via email, I trust the issue would be resolved in a professional way.

Thank you for the note @swat4
Hope it's sorted out soon.

JamesF

@angstrom said:

@ascicode said:
If someone accessing Nexus Bytes through smallweb.net, the domain expires on 6th of february 2023, but says updated 14th of january 2023, @MichaelCee still your domain?

@MichaelCee isn't active here anymore, but it would greatly surprise me if the domain smallweb.net wasn't included in the sale to NB (along with the company)

He use to live up the road from me.

1nf

@Jord why are you still manning the helm of the sinking ship if there is basically no chance you are getting paid? It looks like this is the end so unless you have been paid in advance, this sounds like a lot of stress and suffering for no reward.

cybertech

@1nf said:
@Jord why are you still manning the helm of the sinking ship if there is basically no chance you are getting paid? It looks like this is the end so unless you have been paid in advance, this sounds like a lot of stress and suffering for no reward.

he's not letting his reputation sink with the familybytes.

dahartigan

Who is the creepy uncle in the family?

Hxxx

@Francisco any thoughts in buying NB? Popcorn worthy?