ZomboCom stolen by a hacker, sold, now replaced with AI-generated makeover (old.reddit.com)

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.

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/

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

I never imagined this happening. I guess the limitation really was my mind.

That's a shame. Now I can't do anything at ZomboCom.

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?

That's like when the Library of Alexandria was burned

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

I guess the hacker could do anything… at zombocom

if there is any consolation, this is still up

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

https://welcometozombo.com

Crappy flash gets replaced by crappy ai gen. Truly the art of the previous generation surpassed by the art of the next.

I ... honestly have very limited grounds for complaint here.

Another little corner of the internet is gone.

Had to check... but this is still here https://dack.com/web/bullshit.html

shoot i show that to people every once in a while