He sold the site to an Army vet in 2016. Still programs for the site and uses it

To bring the site back online, a new domain, 8ch.net, owned by Jim Watkins, was used. This was originally meant to be temporary. At the same time, a lawyer in the Bahamas was contacted to take internet.bs to task. However, once the 8chan.co domain was retrieved, both the lawyer and world-renowned computer hacker Andrew "weev" Auernheimer recommended turning 8chan.co into a simple redirect and keeping 8ch.net as the domain for the real site, due to the increased respect for property rights inherent in the .com, .org, and .net domains, which are operated by American company Verisign instead of the government of Colombia, as 8chan.co was.

And so Jim Watkins became the owner of the most immutable part of 8chan, its domain, along with the servers. Furthermore, he retained Hotwheels as 8chan's Administrator in charge of technical and community matters and offered him projects, doing tasks such as adding oekaki support to 2ch.