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Eugene

(61,899 posts) Wed Aug 16, 2017, 06:11 PM Aug 2017

Racist Daily Stormer goes down again as CloudFlare drops support

With thanks to DUer Earth Bound Misfit:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029473853#post8

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Source: Ars Technica

Racist Daily Stormer goes down again as CloudFlare drops support

Tech companies face intense pressure not to work with the hate site.

TIMOTHY B. LEE - 8/16/2017, 4:22 PM

All week, the infamous hate site Daily Stormer has been battling to stay online in the face of a concerted social media campaign to shut it down. The site lost its "dailystormer.com" domain on Monday after first GoDaddy and then Google Domains blacklisted it from their domain registration services

The site re-appeared online on Wednesday morning at a new domain name, dailystormer.ru. But within hours, the site had gone offline again after it was dropped by Cloudflare, an intermediary that defends customers against denial-of-service attacks.

Daily Stormer's Andrew Anglin reported Cloudflare's decision to drop the site in a post on the social media site Gab. His post was first spotted by journalist Matthew Sheffield.

Theoretically, you don't need a service like Cloudflare to publish a website. In practice, however, a site as controversial as the Daily Stormer is going to be swamped by distributed denial of service attacks if it doesn't enjoy the protection of a service like Cloudflare.

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Racist Daily Stormer goes down again as CloudFlare drops support (Original Post) Eugene Aug 2017 OP

Paypal closing their accounts and now no hosting sights, MAGA Nazis finding being assholes aint easy uponit7771 Aug 2017 #1

They'll change the name ever so slightly Warpy Aug 2017 #2

Welllllllll Leghorn21 Aug 2017 #3

Vox.com said they shopped a Russia domain: Ilsa Aug 2017 #4

LOL!! DailyStormer.wang! Sorry, that just struck me as funny. madinmaryland Aug 2017 #5

Yeah, DailyStormer dot dick was taken. nt Ilsa Aug 2017 #6

They got kicked off Twitter too! Initech Aug 2017 #7

Alt Right dot com uses Cloudflare as well. grossproffit Aug 2017 #8

uponit7771

(90,346 posts)

1. Paypal closing their accounts and now no hosting sights, MAGA Nazis finding being assholes aint easy

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Wed Aug 16, 2017, 06:13 PM

Aug 2017

Warpy

(111,267 posts)

2. They'll change the name ever so slightly

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Wed Aug 16, 2017, 06:16 PM

Aug 2017

and be back within a couple of weeks, so the folks who are tracking these lowlifes need to stay vigilant.

Leghorn21

(13,524 posts)

3. Welllllllll

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Wed Aug 16, 2017, 06:16 PM

Aug 2017

Ilsa

(61,695 posts)

4. Vox.com said they shopped a Russia domain:

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Wed Aug 16, 2017, 06:17 PM

Aug 2017

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029473853

Thus, heading into Tuesday, the site — founded by prominent neo-Nazi Andrew Anglin in 2013 — was essentially bouncing around looking for places to land. It briefly attempted to gain hosting through a Chinese service provider at the URL DailyStormer.wang, only to quickly be taken offline.

Next, the site attempted to set up shop on the dark web, using a .onion domain. Websites on the dark web are hidden from search engines and can only be accessed by special browsers such as a Tor browser. But the site’s move underground didn’t last long. Currently its home on the dark web is a parked announcement that it has relocated to DailyStormer.Ru:

The .ru domain in the URL isn’t exactly proof that the website is now hosted in Russia, because anyone can register a .ru domain. A Whois lookup for the .ru site reveals that the controversial hosting proxy CloudFlare, which has refused to terminate its business relationship with the neo-Nazi forum, continues to mask the identity of the site’s true server host.

On the website, Anglin celebrated the site’s return with a litany of anti-Semitism and criticism of GoDaddy and Google, calling the latter an anti-speech site. He also took the opportunity to deliver more insults against Heyer, whose memorial is today.