The Daily Stormer, the neo-Nazi site which both GoDaddy and Google have severed ties with, is now registered with the Toronto-based company Tucows Inc.
Global News reached out to Tucows, which confirmed as part of its domain registration with Google, the Daily Stormer used a contact privacy service offered by Toronto-based company Tucows. The Daily Stormer was originally hosted on GoDaddy and was kicked off after posting derogatory comments about the victim of the Charlottesville rallies, Heather Heyer.
Michael Goldstein, vice president of sales and marketing at Tucows, said that its service will no longer be offered to Daily Stormer when Google cancels its services, and further added that the website violated his company’s terms of services. (Daily Stormer never directly signed up with Tucows, rather its contact privacy service is offered through Google).
“It’s kind of soul sapping,” said Goldstein, in an interview with Global News, on the Daily Stormer’s hop from host to host. “I don’t feel capable of stopping hate today, but we’re doing what little we can by keeping them off our services.”
The website promptly moved its domain registration to Google, which was quick to cancel their registration for “violating Google terms of service,” Reuters reports.
A “whois” search of Internet domains on Monday listed Alphabet Inc’s Google as registrar for The Daily Stormer, a white supremacist website associated with the alt-right movement.
GoDaddy Inc disclosed on Sunday via Twitter that it had given The Daily Stormer 24 hours to move its domain to another provider, saying it had violated the company’s terms of service.”
GoDaddy has previously come under sharp criticism for hosting The Daily Stormer and other sites that spread hate.
GoDaddy spokesman Dan Race tells the New York Daily News that the Daily Stormer violated its terms of service by labelling a woman killed in an attack at the event in Charlottesville “fat” and “childless.”
Heather Heyer was killed Saturday when police say a man plowed his car into a group of demonstrators protesting the white nationalist rally.
Shortly after GoDaddy tweeted its decision, the site posted an article claiming it had been hacked and would be shut down.
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–With files from Jessica Vomiero and Sean Craig.
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