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That's the head office of Nortons accountants, who I'd imagine are handling the liquidation. Changing the registered address is normal. http://www.nortonsgroup.com/uk/global-offices

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The liquidators have the power to dispose of the assets as they wish, in an attempt to return as much money to creditors (and the taxman) as possible. It's entirely possible that they've decided to try and keep some parts of the company active and have outsourced the dev work to a shady 3rd party. Alternatively they might be moving the sellable assets into a separate company which can itself be sold soon/later. Odds are that the founders weren't behind this move.

> Odds are that the founders weren't behind this move.

Are you insinuating that someone other than Aaron Cheung sent the email from the top of the post? That seems... strange.

Well the issue appears to be settled it was Aaron Cheung:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10467925

In the UK the liquidators hold the assets in a kind of trust. It is their responsibility to try and liquidate the assets to return money to the creditors.

In my case one of our founders purchased the domain name and the "good will of the company", and continued to run the company under that name as a "trading name". The actual company entity going forward was completely different.

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