Parody Domains
The Tez2 domain-batch find: eight parody web addresses registered under Take-Two nameservers in May 2025, then quietly hidden after the leak spread.
- Found by
- Tez2, via GTAForums
- Surfaced
- September 2025
- Registered
- May 27, 2025
- Count
- Eight domains
- Verification
- WHOIS-checkable ownership and nameserver records
- Aftermath
- Take-Two changed nameservers after the leak spread
The parody domains find is one of the strongest-sourced datamines of the Grand Theft Auto VI pre-launch cycle. Dataminer Tez2 posted via GTAForums that a batch of web domains had been registered on May 27, 2025 under Take-Two's nameservers, with the find spreading in September 2025 through reporting from EGW, Sportskeeda and others. The list reads exactly like the satirical addresses GTA games are known for:
- what-up.app
- rydeme.app
- buckme.app
- leonidagov.org
- brianandbradley.com
- hookers-galore.com
- wipeoutcornskin.com
- myboyhasacreepycorndog.com
The registrations are the strongly verified layer, since domain ownership and nameserver records are WHOIS-checkable rather than word of mouth. The decodes are interpretation: per Sportskeeda, rydeme.app is read as an Uber or Lyft style ride-share, what-up.app as a WhatsApp parody, and brianandbradley.com as a send-up of the Florida law firm Morgan & Morgan. leonidagov.org stands out because Leonida is the confirmed state.
The Streisand effect
After the leak drew attention, Take-Two changed the nameservers to obscure ownership of the domains, per Sportskeeda's follow-up. That reconfiguration is also WHOIS-verifiable, and it is a textbook Streisand effect: the attempt to hide the trail became some of the best evidence the domains genuinely matter to Rockstar.
The precedent
GTA 4 and GTA 5 in-game site domains redirected to Rockstar's real website, which supports the theory that these registrations are groundwork for browsable pages inside GTA 6's in-game internet. What each domain becomes, and whether any go live at all, remains unconfirmed. The full story is in our domain-batch report.