GTA 6 Domain Leak

Credible September 8, 2025
Domain registrations — official Grand Theft Auto VI screenshot
Eight domains registered under Take-Two's nameserversOfficial Rockstar screenshot
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

Sources

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