If you stuff a "Host: www.auroracoin.org" directive into a HTTP request to the IP 104.28.4.68 you get back the auroracoin site. I'm not sure whether this means the web server is still active, or it's just cloudflare caching it.

Looks like auroracoin.org is registered under eNom, or one of its resellers. Does anyone know if it's possible to renew a domain via them, without needing to be logged in as the original registrant? (ie - ANYONE can renew the domain). Did a quick web search but couldn't find anything.

edit: the reseller is namecheap.

edit 2: Speaking in namecheap live chat, they can contact the registrant, and there's no objections within 24 hours they will allow a third party to renew the domain. They've also recommended to renew with WhoisGuard, otherwise the original registrant's details will be revealed, but the catch is that also may trigger ICANN contact validation, which could result in suspension of the domain 15 days later. So better to pay the extra $2.88 to continue WhoisGuard and avoid ICANN validation.

So... does anyone have a namecheap account? It will cost $14.36 to renew the domain and WhoisGuard.

Hmmm, I just checked the one that is in the the Electrum documentation and yours seems to be correct. Are you sure that your computer is able to handle Bitcoin URI's?

you obviously do not understand the implications of a single person privately holding north of 30% of supply of a coin (premine for free).
Have you even been trading altcoins?
If you want this get adopted by iceland and let's say it's a success and he dumps that premine on a 500 million$ marketcap.
Don't you think a lot of people could be financially damaged greatly?
Think it get adopted as real currency and is widely used and he drops the bag on 2 billion cap.
If you do not understand this i don't have time for you (would have satoshi said)
This has potential to cause great damage to investors.

He is basically stealing money from people who would in the future be investing in the coin. This can be a multimillion dollar heist. Why do i even need to explain that? Are you braindead?

If you liked the experiment like many here did maybe do a relaunch?

bottom line is: it's criminal and he could go to jail for life for this.

So spare me your tales of 'the market decides if it's worth it'
You're about to defend a thief of millions of dollars. You're looking great doing so.
Nobody is stopping you from buying as many coins as you want. Go ahead.

Think Aurora becomes a success and this story is leaked to the media. Boy, we're fucked. Everyone in crypto. You can pack up your bitcoinshop forever if the media decides to report it. Especally if it would dump and rob a lot of people of their hard earned money.
They're gonna be on bitcoin and the satoshi wallet next after that. Alt industry would be done.

You smartass see no wrongdoing here, do you?

i have got the feeling many on this thread are in on the scam and know more than they would be ready to admit.

you resorting to trying to call me a scammer instead of sighting the facts makes you suspicous too. Do you try to cover things up here? Are you in on the scam? Or just blind from holding a big aurora bag?

anyways i don't even have time for this. I'll check back here tomorrow maybe. You get it sorted out. No time for picking fights with Aur bagholders.

If you don't see a scam with pretending to airdrop large amounts of coins but keeping them to dump them later for personal gains i can't help you.

To be clear: we are not talking few thousand coins but north of 2 million ... remember 1 coin was 20$ once
can't see anything wrong with it? I can't help you then.

just check the explorer.

it's happening live.

This adress claimed three airdrops of 636 coins each in 5 minutes today:

https://chainz.cryptoid.info/aur/address.dws?Ad9qMmufMbEz6F6sfxK3KQDJVc1wK8sDLW.htm

nothing ads up here

you need to be blind to not see balduro is laundering the premine to himself (of course because he's not supervised)

all this evidence is only last 8 hours. Is nobody looking at the blockchain activity?

so where is Balduro? And why can he not even write on the thread? Huh?
1 + 1 = 2

I totally agree with you. The website is abandoned and it's forum hacked for months.
Nobody knows exactly where this ship is sailing. But there is hope.

Actually I'm starting to suspect that this number was just manually changed. Think it was around 3.1 mill before this. Maybe Balduro just added the 1 mill that he gave to the Icelandic Cryptocurrency Society and is still preparing the 3rd phase of the airdrop as it seems that people who have claimed during the second phase can still not claim the third.

I see nothing about it here

http://forum.auroracoin.org/

It was 31.8 AUR in March when I got my coins.

We have however not fully decided what direction we should take regarding the mining algo. This has been discussed back and forth. What I hope to see here is some discussion and opinions from the community. As we see it there are just two options to think about. Use an algo that is asic resistant and thus give the individual a chance to do some mining at home. This however is often an illusion as most of the asic resistant algo's are largely mined my gpu mining farms thus beating the point. Of course there might be other algo's out there that are gpu resistant but how reliable are they? The other option is to either go with SHA-256 or continue with scrypt and be mined mainly be the large mining farms. This option in many ways is good as it has much more potential to secure the network so we have been leaning towards this. This would also give us a good opportunity to be merge mined with some of the larger coins which would be a brilliant way to secure the network. It would be great to get some opinions and ideas from you guys regarding this matter.

Well I think this is enough for now. I just wanted to let you all know that this is being worked on and that all of you are invited to take part in this great project. I'm sure there will be a lot of questions and I will try my best to answer them.

No need for words 

Have you tried odesk.com ?