What happened to the 5k competition?

It could be a simple answer. A few months ago I inquired about the disappearance of the domain the5k.org. Someone from the previous team emailed me back saying something about their domain getting hijacked, and they were getting it back. The domain was then briefly a Godaddy parking space, and now it's just blank. Odd. This just a couple of years after SIGGRAPH supposedly absorbed the 5k competition...

What is the 5k competition? You can read the full story thanks to the Web Archive here, but this was the stated purpose:
"The idea behind the contest is that the rigid constraints of designing for the web are what force us to get truly creative. Between servers and bandwidth, clients and users, HTML and the DOM, browsers and platforms, our conscience and our ego, we're left in a very small space to find highly optimal solutions. Since the space we have to explore is so small, we have to look harder, get more creative; and that's what makes it all interesting. Just celebrating that is all."In other words, you can enter any program you like, as long as it's under 5 kilobytes. Which is very cool, and the winners of each year's competition have been quite impressive, but maybe I should have said, what was the 5k competition, because there appears to be no signs of life on the site or elsewhere... Anyone have an answer to this riddle?

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