ZomboCom stolen by a hacker, sold, now replaced with AI-generated makeover

https://old.reddit.com/r/oldinternet/comments/1raiz8v/zombocom_was_stolen_by_hacker_put_up_for_sale_and/

30•bananaboy•1h ago

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tengbretson•48m ago

I knew anything was possible at ZomboCom, but damn. I never expected this. Guess that's ZomboCom for ya.

samplatt•8m ago

I didn't think I'd be the first person in this (or the reddit) thread to call this new site ZombieCom, but not gonna lie I'm pretty happy about it.

fred_is_fred•35m ago

The thread is lacking any detail on how the site was stolen and sold. Perhaps the "OG owner" as the poster calls it sold it for money?

bananaboy•24m ago

Yeah I'm not sure. I haven't found anything else yet about this. The reddit poster posted this screenshot of an email with the (apparently) original owner https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd....

TurdF3rguson•32m ago

How does a hacker steal a website? So many questions.

silisili•23m ago

You steal the domain name, not the website so to speak. Which would mean someone got their registrar credentials most likely.

TurdF3rguson•18m ago

And transferred it away? Registrars make it really hard to do that if you're not the actual person. I'm finding it hard to believe someone can do this anonymously.

spullara•31m ago

shoot i show that to people every once in a while

paularmstrong•31m ago

html5 zombocom still exists, for your viewing pleasure. you can do anything at zombocom. anything at all. the only limit is yourself.

[1]: https://html5zombo.com/

iugtmkbdfil834•23m ago

It will never, ever, get old.

shagie•12m ago

The last week of January, the site was intermittently serving back a 429 response (too many requests) as recorded by the wayback machine. https://web.archive.org/web/20260000000000*/Zombo.com

In the first week of February, the site was down.

On the 8th, it was serving an error page from centos.

On the 9th, it was serving the new content. https://lookup.icann.org/en/lookup for zombo.com shows that it was updated on 2026-02-09 20:34:17 UTC

I believe that a more reasonable explanation would be that the domain name expired, someone saw that being the case, bought the domain name and hosted their own version of it.

I'm not sure that "stolen" is the proper verb to use, or that "hacker" is the appropriate attribution.

bananaboy•6m ago

Thank you for the explanation!

callbacked•5m ago

if there is any consolation, this is still up

https://github.com/Jonty/zombocom/

https://welcometozombo.com

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