August 04, 2010 by sharky
Last night Coratee tweeted "StC is officially closed. I apologize for the lack of warning. There has been a creation of a non-official replacement site. :( & <3". About 2 hours later it was followed by this announcement, "Sorry guys and no we were not shut down. The site just could not be maintained any more :( ".
GoDaddy, the registrar for StC says "this domain name expired on 07/28/2010 and is pending renewal or deletion". Contrary to this, an updated whois suggests that the domain has now been reinstated until the following year (07/29/2011). Not that any of this particularly matters to the future of StC. Renewing your own domain name is always a cheap option, even if the plan is to never host anything on it - with the idea being that no one else can use the domain for future development. A simple tactic, if truthful.
Info, and a new Site ‘Corate.es’
FSF caught wind of the story from a former staffer at StC who had an inside scoop on what was going on. Below are some snippets from the email we received:
"StC is very much dead. Manzana just didn’t want to run the site anymore. It was supposed to be just that - we’d put up a news post, thank all our members for sticking with us, and that would be that. But then redhat and Krakatoa (who was fired from his staff position at StC, a while ago) created Corate.es and started announcing it before our site closed. Manzana was very upset - he didn’t want people using the Coratee name - no affiliation whatsoever with StC if there was to be a new one. Regardless, he’s out of the torrenting scene forever as far as I know."
— So there you have it - http://corate.es. But not so fast…
"But anyway, redhat (who, if I recall correctly, you love after that whole Eargasm.ME incident) and Krakatoa created Corate.es, and didn’t bring over any other StC staff as far as I know (none of the other former staffers even have an account, yet). It’s important to note that Corate.es is NOT StC, it’s an unofficial branch."
— The message continues:
"Anyway, it’s cool if you want to use this for an article or something. I’d actually like that, because the end of StC was so botched that I think most users don’t know what happened. Honestly, I don’t think Corate.es will succeed and would recommend that people go over to BrokenStones."
Corate.es has become its own entity and former members of StC will not be able to login; instead they’ll need to create a new account. At this time, registration is currently not open to the public. More info and future updates can be found on their IRC channel:
- Server: irc.corate.es
- Port: 6667
- Channel: #corate.es
- Hotlink: irc.corate.es:6667/#corate.es
Update: I’ll attempt to contact Corate.es staff as to get to the bottom of what ‘really’ happened. Stay tuned.
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