My original plan was to sweep the issue under the carpet out of respect to J.P., but in a fit of evening daze I accidentially went public with it in Steven's comments. And now Hinano has seen it. So, to make it clear, indeed I'm unhappy with the removal of the domain and the resulting loss of permalinks. Randall has caught heat for mishandling ikimashou.net (which, of note, hosts Sasa and Owen), so now he deserves props for recovering it. I have no doubt that it costed him money. The coincidential timing of the loss of minaidehazukashii.com and recovery of ikimashou.net provides the contrast that I pointed out.

Another thing I wish to make clear is that I am not going to assign blame here. In a just world, the DoSers should have their balls ripped out. In our world, plenty of blame is to go around, from Bluehost being a bunch of cheating swine with oversubscribed VPSes to J.P. unwillingness to back up his fiance's antics (with a subscription to Hosting Matters, for instance). But I only care about the result: broken permalinks.

Still, even speculatively, Hinano's "provocations" are excluded. Blaming her rage for DoS is akin to Catmeat Sheikh blaming women for being raped. Screw that kind of mentality. Secondary to that, I have absolutely no issue with her personality. The deal is: she writes good stuff, I link to it (and if she doesn't, I don't). Nothing else matters.

And now I'm going to watch Minaide Hitorigoto with great interest, and I wish them all the best.