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Dogecoin.org taken down

dogecoin.org

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Founder of Dogecoin here. http://dogecoin.com is the official site.

dogecoin.org was owned by a third party, who sold the domain to the highest bidder today and they threw up that stupid seizure message. Entirely a ploy by another altcoin to try and derail Dogecoin. Funny they're taking it all so seriously haha.

Settle down people, it's a doge on a coin and it's Christmas :)

Everyone loves illegal shit. the troll will work in our favour. http://www.reddit.com/r/dogecoin/comments/1tl618/dogecoin_we...

Perhaps, but Dogecoin is all about fun and generosity. Not sure who'd want to undermine that :)

it's been reverted back to the original website.

Yep, honestly no idea what they're doing over there. Let's just spread the word that dogecoin.com is the real site.

I just want to let you know I saw your thread on bitcointalk about 5 minutes after you posted it and called it stupid.

I hope you're enjoying your retirement. :P

Doesn't look like it had anything to do with gambling.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?&q=cache%3Adoge...

The DNS points to 23.92.49.68 and an image is shown suggesting that the domain was seized. As the WHOIS was only updated a few minutes ago you will need to flush your DNS for this to appear.

http://archive.is/ecmzU

I don't believe this is legitimate, as it doesn't follow the HTML style or the image format of the previous seizure notices I've collected. The IP address is pointing to a shared host in Ohio, which does not make sense if this were a real seizure.

Dogecoin.com is the official site, registered in Australia (the home of founder Jackson Palmer) on 12/4/13. Dogecoin.org was an unofficial community site registered in Panama on 12/5/13.

Either way, I'd expect this to spark news coverage and interest in Dogecoin. There was already a lot of momentum today, this won't hurt.

What are the implications of this?

very implication.

much this

wow

So, no one gets the joke, huh?

Isn't dogecoin.com the actual main site?

Yeah, pretty sure it is. Not sure what dogecoin.org even was.

Any idea how this occurred? Dogecoin.com is still up btw.

Lol they seized dogecoin.org for gambling but satoshidice is still up - and it's far older than dogecoin...

yea, I'm not sure. dogecoin.org is official site according to wikipedia and duckduckgo though

dogecoin.com is the official site, as far as I know, and it's still up.

http://www.dogecasino.com/ is still up. Don't get it.

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