User:MillerLeut/sandbox/Doxbin

Doxbin is a pastebin style website, dedicated to the sharing and aggregation of private or public personal information.

History
There have been many Doxbin instances throughout history, with the most recognised instance being ran by a person under the alias of nachash, which got seized in Operation Onymous.

Dox-bin on 808chan
On 808chan, a now defunct imageboard, the first mention of the name "Dox-bin" would be used for the board /knox/, which was a pastebin service for 808chan users. It had syntax highlighting and line highlighting, image hosting, video embedding, flash embedding, visual effects, AJAX Posting, paste expiration, a name field, and a documented API for posting. It also allowed URL shortening if the paste contains a URL. This would be the predecessor to other "doxbin" sites.

DOXBIN
On the 30th of May 2011, DOXBIN (stylised in all capitals) would be created. It existed as a hidden service on Tor. At the time it was ran by someone associated with 808chan and was a close friend of Blair Strater (known as R000t online). The story goes that DOXBIN was ran by this individual until an individual by the name of troof (real name: Michael Dean Major, known also as hann) had root access on the "box" (the server used to host DOXBIN). The individual troof, according to some, simply used the server to connect to IRC networks and had ended up getting it "nulled". Because of the drama surrounding this, the founder of DOXBIN resigned and gave another individual who goes under the name nachash, who would run the site along with Inatagir.

2014:
It first attracted attention in March 2014 when its then-owner hijacked a popular Tor hidden service, The Hidden Wiki, pointing its visitors to Doxbin instead as a response to the maintenance of pages dedicated to child pornography links. In June 2014, their Twitter account was suspended, prompting the site to start listing the personal information of the Twitter founders and CEO. In October 2014, Doxbin hosted personal information about Katherine Forrest, a federal judge responsible for court rulings against the owner of Tor-based black market Silk Road, leading to death threats and harassment.

Doxbin's then-owner, nachash, also had a feud with Jason Lee Van Dyke, a former lawyer who was known for filing a motion against Pink Meth and The Tor Project, before going only for Pink Meth. Van Dyke's dox would be published onto DOXBIN.

Post Operation Onymous
With the original Doxbin ran by nachash taken down in Operation Onymous, many "spin-off" or derivatives of the site were created based on the source code of the orignal site, posted by nachash on GitHub. These however, did not last long. An example of this is a Twitter account attributed to Doxbin's sucessor "TheNewDoxbin" announcing that within a few days of being up, that the private key of the hidden service had been leaked.

Doxbin
Doxbin, is the one of the many successors to the now-defunct Doxbin. Similar to its predecessor, it describes itself as "a document sharing and publishing website for text-based information such as dox, code-snippets and other stuff." . The current site runs on nginx, a modified pastebin clone (based on Laravel.io's pastebin) for its paste uploading frontend and some of its JQuery code originates as far back as 2013. The site was programmed by Brenton. As of the 26th of September 2021, it currently has 48905 "pastes". Unlike its predecessor, it does not operate as a hidden service.

On the 2nd of November, Doxbin's former .org domain would cease to work as Njalla, the domain registrar, would cause it to not resolve. This was disclosed on the 6th of November in a paste.

In 2021, the individuals kt and Brenton would sell the website for $75,000 to an individual of the name "white", who would own the website for almost three months. However, on the 4th of January, a message from the former Doxbin Telegram channel would announce that kt and Brenton have regained their positions as owners. This comes shortly after the former owner, white, would announce on the 3rd of January that "Doxbin is for sale".