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 prohibited

Suggesting 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.