[hkolk]

For what it's worth, ebay.co.jp is actually not running on their main platform. You can see the difference in the HTML code between ebay.com, ebay.de (both on the main platform) and ebay.co.jp (wordpress based). I actually don't even know if they are showing eBay listings on that website...

Good find though, and embarrassing failure. Especially since most eBay properties have penetration testing and automated scanners being run on them

[codemusings]

Fun fact: just entering [ebay.co.jp] gives you a "Connection refused". You explicitly have to enter [www.ebay.co.jp]. I don't know what they're doing over there.

[scruffyherder]

Plenty of sites in asia expect the www. It's crazy annoying.

Pizzahut recently fixed theirs after years of bitching about it.

[giancarlostoro]

I had the same issue, I wanted to see the site everyone was talking about, if you append www. or https://www. in front of it, it works.

[richrichardsson]

for future reference, prepend is the word you wanted.

"If you prepend www. or https://www. it works."

[giancarlostoro]

Ah yes, hadn't had my coffee yet. Prefix is the word I usually use more commonly instead, not sure if there's a huge difference between the two.

[cevn]

I think prepend makes more sense as a verb. Prefix is more commonly used as a noun

[ekianjo]

Ebay does not operate in Japan as an auction site. Instead we have Yahoo Auctions and more recently Mercari.

[hkolk]

Interesting enough Yahoo Japan was/is always a distinct company from Yahoo itself. Japan is special from a silicon valley perspective I guess...

[toast0]

Yahoo Japan had access to Yahoo US's source... auctions in Japan was based on the us auctions, but it continued to run after the us auctions shut down. (I don't know how it evolved after that)

[garmaine]

Japan is special from just about every perspective.

[4ndr3vv]

Interesting! perhaps this is why there was no reward offered - there's no real customer data being threatened? Just the passwords/source to their wordpress site?

[ekianjo]

That's my guess, unless they do some other kind of entreprise business that I am not aware about.

[C1sc0cat]

Very embarrassing not handling basic stuff like this is really NCI (Non Culpable Incompetence)