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I understand the reassurances that have been going around mean well, but no, the situation with fanfiction.net is not just a case of ordinary domain spoofing.
You cannot purchase a subdomain separately from its parent domain. If fanfiction.net and www.fanfiction.net are currently resolving to different sites right now, it’s because whoever has control of the parent domain, fanfiction.net, fucked up.
This doesn’t necessarily mean anything untoward is going on. For example, the site could be in the process of changing hosting providers, and whoever was responsible for updating the domain’s configuration accidentally pointed the bare domain and the www subdomain to different places. That happens all the time.
Given that the preponderance of evidence is that fanfiction.net’s hosting has not been actively maintained for some time, however, this could also be a sign that things are falling apart even further. It’d still be a good idea to back up your stuff, just in case!
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