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 & morning of 2025/05/23), as negotations led to the domain being transferred to a different registrar. And also, a good bit of OC!

PANIK!

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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 Feburary 2026, and lots of subsequent reassembly work would needed to be done to move hard links on the site 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

Behind the scenes, when the first email was sent, kaguya first swiftly responded by asking Epik why the site was taken down, and what the offending content was. The wording of the first email initally gave no answer to any of these, merely stating kaguya's account was indefinitely suspended and the domain was to be seized until expiry.

Epik replied by stating that the contents of the site were in violation of 18 U.S. Code § 1466A, the Protect Act of 2003. What seems to be the specific subsection that Heyuri is in violation of is below:

(b) Additional Offenses.—Any person who, in a circumstance described in subsection (d), knowingly possesses a visual depiction of any kind, including a drawing, cartoon, sculpture, or painting, that—

(1)

(A) depicts a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct; and

(B) is obscene; or

(2)

(A) depicts an image that is, or appears to be, of a minor engaging in graphic bestiality, sadistic or masochistic abuse, or sexual intercourse, including genital-genital, oral-genital, anal-genital, or oral-anal, whether between persons of the same or opposite sex; and

(B) lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value;

Although, this isn't very enforced, and its a bit of a legal conundrum if this is even enforcable, since the art seems to fall under constitutional free speech laws. Regardless, Heyuri isn't in court; just dealing with an Epik conundrum, so Kaguya temporarily hides the /l/ & /s/ boards.

In the same email, Epik states that the decision is final, and that there is NO NEGOTATION!!! Despite this, kaguya sends another email, but simultenously prepares moving Heyuri to a new domain. Luckily, after some more back and forth negotiation, Epik actually gave in, and allowed for kaguya to transfer the domain to a different registrar. He chose Porkbun, a relatively lax registrar, who would allow the transfer for a small fee of $12.50.

Kaguya asked a few people, and openly stated that Heyuri.net was saved, at the cost of $13 (which is why you might see $13, rather than $12.50 quoted in OC here and there), which he was too broke (he actually just didnt have a bank account that could pay it) to cover, so he'd have to find Heyurian investors to help cough up the dosh for it.

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