Buying the domain using a crap registrar and not renewing for more 1 year at a time (this happened last year too) seems strange and naive, particularly when we're talking about Rails, which has a pretty big community which depends on info on that site (mainly for documentation).
(and I wish he wasn't as foul-mouthed as he is. it always looks weird from a community "leader" as he is for ROR)
What's $10 more dollars between the frustration of getting your domain back! I urge everyone to have 1 year registrations on their domains and definitely never use auto-renew!
She stole my domain last month when my registrar didn't notify me of expiration. The first time I saw that smirk, I wanted to ring her neck. http://jstaten.com
If you think a site is temporarily under control of someone other than its usual trusted maintainers ('hijacked'), please don't promote more visits to the site with a link.
The site should be visited less, not more, until the question is resolved -- if your theory is true, the 'hijackers' may have both malicious intent and unpatched browser-linked flaws to exploit against visitors.
If you are in the mission district of SF, Adobe books was recently featuring an art exhibit that included an oil rendition of her. It might still be up!
I believe the photographer posted to a thread on reddit or something. IIRC both he and the girl are getting residuals off the stock photo site he uses. It's not a great deal of money though.
"Getting fucked over on the Rails domain again this year by buydomains.dk. But shame is on me for not moving it last year :("