Sinkholed
Hi, I am the author of this post. I had posted another link about this story a few days ago when this story was still unfolding.[1][2]This blog post summarizes the timeline and the events that occurred to resolve the domain transfer issue. Like I have mentioned in this blog post, multiple parties such as Namecheap Support, the Shadowsecurity Foundation, and NIXI helped me in resolving this issue. Thanks to all of them and special thanks to Namecheap CEO, Richard Kirkendall, for looking into this issue on priority as soon as he became aware of it.I wish the domain name management, in particular, and the Internet, in general, had a higher degree or decentralization, so that it were technically impossible for something like this to happen but I think there are many factors at play that are currently preventing from such an Internet to become mainstream at this time.[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21671579[2]: https://twitter.com/susam/status/1200678538254393345