GTA 6 Domain Leak
- Date
- September 8, 2025
- Source
- Tex2 (formerly Tez2), community dataminer
- Channel
- GTAForums, then X
- Standing
- Credible
Not footage — DNS records. A long-running community dataminer found eight domains, all registered on 27 May 2025, all sitting on Take-Two Interactive's nameservers, all reading like in-game websites. They were gone within a day of being posted.
What actually leaked
- what-up.app — an app-style name suggesting an in-game messaging or social service
- rydeme.app — an app-style name suggesting a ride-hailing service
- buckme.app — an app-style name with no obvious real-world analogue
- leonidagov.org — a state government portal for Leonida, the kind of site Rockstar builds for every recent title
- brianandbradley.com — a business name that lines up with Brian Heder’s boat yard
- hookers-galore.com — a joke domain of the sort the series has used for in-game advertising since the beginning
- wipeoutcornskin.com — a joke domain with no identified in-game referent
- myboyhasacreepycorndog.com — a second joke domain with no identified referent
Standing: Credible
The registrations and the nameserver records were publicly queryable at the time, which makes this one of the few GTA 6 leaks anyone could verify independently. Rockstar has used the same pattern before: in-game website domains registered ahead of launch for IV and V. Whether any of these are in-game sites is a different question, and the dataminer said so at the time.
What happened next
On 9 September 2025, one day after the post, every listed domain had been moved off Take-Two's nameservers. The leonidagov.org registration is the one the community keeps coming back to — a state government portal for Leonida would fit the in-game internet Rockstar has built for every recent title.
Systems traced to this leak
- In-game websites registered ahead of launchWorld · Credible
- The state of LeonidaWorld · Verified