Herpy hacked

The website is commonly known as Herpy among members. Herpy is also notable for being the place where Varka first announced his plans for Bad Dragon. Even though all content was gone, the community userbase stayed through and are now working on building it back up from a clean slate.

The new site bears no ties to its former host Varka or Bad Dragon , and is also changed domain from. Herpy was established in February by Varka and BullGator as a reference resource both for artists as well as other visitors interested in the sexual aspects of reptilian behavior and anatomy.

The original Herpy logo was designed by D. His logo was retired temporarily in but later became the official graphic of the community once again with slight alterations to reflect the website's new name. The massive gallery and its corresponding community were originally hosted on their own server, however as of hosting considerations for Herpy are provided by Varka Enterprises.

In its early years the community grew steadily with its gallery quickly pulling in over one million visitors per month and 1, registered users by October Despite these accomplishments the community remained "underground" in the fandom and received almost all of its traffic via search engines or word-of-mouth advertising. Herpy upgraded its forum software from phpBB to vBulletin in August Varka was the community's administrator and site webmaster from through In On April 19, this role was given to Dracokon who continued to maintain the position until the shutdown of the site.

In this thread he discussed his desire and plans to sculpt and create dragon-themed sex toys to serve a market that he felt was glazed over by the existing toy companies. At the time of the thread's posting the company did not have a name, but in a post made on December 14, Varka used the name " Bad Dragon " for the first time [6] and announced that he had purchased the new business' domain name. Varka made the announcement "We go live on Monday! Two days later, Dracokon claimed he allegedly made the first public post on the Bad Dragon forums.

After the takedown of May 23, Herpy was reborn under a new name and new domain on July 6th , thereby also cutting all its former ties with Bad Dragon. In the early hours of November 11, an unknown group of hackers abused a security hole in the registration bridge between Herpy's forum and gallery and crashed the website, deleting forums and threads and replacing most of the site's graphics with shock images. Herpy's gallery was the first item to be restored and the forums themselves came back online in April In September Herpy was one of dozens of vBulletins affected by a security exploit caused by erroneous installation files left on the Herpy.

Simply commissioning artwork from an artist does not automatically transfer copyright of that image to the commissioner. If you find a commissioned piece on this site that you wish to see removed, you must go through the copyright holder typically the original artist.

The intention of this policy is not to give anyone a hard time. It is only to make sure that artists' copyrighted works are protected. If you are not on the gallery's active DNP list and wish to have your works removed, you have two options:. Note that this procedure is only a one-time removal and that you will need to do it again if said image appears in the future.

Please keep in mind that the DNP list is strictly limited to artists. Only the artist or, in rare cases, their legal representative may add his or herself to the DNP list. Because of previous issues with certain people trying to impersonate artists, it is important for us to do our best in confirming the identity of those requesting an addition to the DNP list. DNP requests may be emailed to the gallery admin at herpygallery at gmail dot com and they will be immediately processed after confirmation of identity.

If you have filed a trademark on a character, we are open to the possibility of a DNP addition. If you have been issued a federal trademark by the United States Patent and Trademark Office or the equivalent in your country of residence , please contact the admin by email for information. Lastly, any request may be subject to additional requirements as may be needed to confirm your identity. While the forums are now locked and archived, the community lives on through the gallery and our Discord server: Please note that you must be 18 years or older to view our gallery.