There is $4k in the bank in their OpenCollective, that should be enough to buy a new domain name. Let's see what happens.

I never saw the point of these at all somehow, but maybe someone can explain how I'm wrong (because I may well be!):

The way I understand guppe groups worked is that you could create any group simply by tagging or following any string followed by a.gup.pe. But those groups didn't have moderators or owners or anything like that. How is that different from following a hashtag?

Threadiverse communities differ from following hashtags by having moderators who can remove posts or ban users. That provides extra value because that means people can't post spam or off-topic things in them as long as the mods are doing their jobs. But if that isn't possible, then why not just follow a hashtag and post to it?

In any case, it seems that federation to Lemmy never worked properly, it was possible to see that guppe groups existed on Lemmy, but they didn't accept my follow request and (maybe because of this?) didn't federate at least to my instance: https://discuss.tchncs.de/c/openstreetmap@a.gup.pe and https://discuss.tchncs.de/c/retrogaming@a.gup.pe are both empty despite me being in "subscribe pending" state on them.

I could've sworn that Guppe has announced that the project was dead (looked it up, I'm thinking of Chirp which recommended moving to Guppe). The last commit was two years ago, so it may well be anyway.

There is another group solution for Mastodon: https://fedigroups.social .

@rimu, you probably want to check if groups there work with PieFed

$10 says it was to get rid of @palestine@a.gup.pe

it is fucking ridiculous to have a policy that allows ANYONE to snatch a domain 12 days BEFORE it expires. It incentivizes cybersquatting and completely makes the TLD untrustworthy. I do not know what is the endgoal, short term gains over long term? Who is going to buy a .pe TLD knowing that it's going to be snatched away so easily. Especially for something that costs $80/year, you can get TEN trustworthy domains for that price!

As I said elsewhere, I would not be even remotely surprised if this was done to get rid of @palestine@a.gup.pe, which was by far the most active group.