EPIK FAIL

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Teh EPIK FAIL was an event that occurred on the 21st of May, 2025, where heyuri.nets registrar, Epik, suspended the account of kaguya for an alleged violation of 18 U.S. Code § 1466A, seemingly to due to the hosting of Lolicon content on the respective /l/ board. This led to the heyuri.net domain becoming unresolvable for a period of roughly 18 hours (between the evening of 2025/05/22 & 2025/05/23), as negotations led to the domain being transferred to a different registrar. And a good bit of OC!

A timeline of events

todo, bascially spit out what's on the talkpage and maybe a tldr

PANIK!

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All displayed times are in UTC.

Kaguya notified Chat@Heyuri of the email just before 8PM, on the 21st. While the domain's DNS records would not be changed until approximately 2PM the next day, preperations were already in place to ensure that Heyurians were not to lose their home.

The first action taken by kaguya to help preserve Heyuri's community was to open a bunker board on a different domain, being Gurochan, under it's own URL. A plain html site was also hosted there, updating Heyurians on the status of the heyuri.net domain. Shortly after, a notice was put up by kaguya on all boards (including the overboard!) informing users of the urgent issue.

Kaguya assumed that the offending content that would justify such a brief and firm notice would be everything on the 2D Lolikon & 3D Girls boards, both of which were temporarily shut in response to the suspension email, at 10PM.

A lot of panic ensued, as after the email was sent, there was no real answer as to how long the heyuri.net domain will stay up, nor how many people would see the alert that it was on life support. Of course, it ended up staying alive for an additional day, but with the wording in the email, it was also to be assumed that the domain was to be permanently sat on until Epik lost renewal rights in ~2026, and the subsequent reassembly work that needed to be done to move hard links to the old domain to a new one.

Many people also joined the Heyuri IRC channel on rizon, to discuss what'd be happening next further.

However, since only the domain was to be taken down, and not the actual servers hosting the site, it was very easy for many people to simply setup redirects to Heyuri IPs. This resulted in a few other bunkers aside from the Gurochan Bunker being setup, such as the Heyuri.lol domain (managed by pen man) & the cgi.yuisuki.net domain (managed by hachikuji(?)). They're still up as of writing, and will likely stay due to possible future issues.

Heyuri-tan visits guro village

ill come up with a better title sometime lol

The majority of activity that ensued throughout this period was on the Gurochan bunker, with some more activity on the Heyuri.LOL web chat & Gikopoipoi instance. The Gurochan bunker actually implemented a pre-release version of the Kokonotsuba Overhaul, which implemented some features not seen in the instance as of writing, such as post filtering. It also restored several old features, such as email field checkboxes and the "Yeah" counter last seen in 2021 (a clone of Futaba☆Channel's "soudane" (そうだね; a casual/colloquial agreement) feature).

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The majority of activity was focused on understanding what was actually going on. Lots of crying, hope and despair was concentrated into all... roughly 250 posts on the bunker. Throughout the 24 hours it was mostly active was all about how doomed heyuri.net was to be... Good news were about to set in though, as negotiations between kaguya & Epik were to take place.

Epik LOLI hostages

ill also do this later. WRITING IS HARD BUT DOESNT MAKE ME HARD! I WANNA BE HARD!