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An American news site for white nationalists says it’s been given its goose-stepping orders by Web.com unit Network Solutions, and it’s looking for a new registrar. VDare, named after Virginia Dare, a semi-mythological American folk hero, h...
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June 23, 2020 Kevin Murphy
censorship, Domain Registrars, Network Solutions, racism, vdare, Web.com
Public Interest Registry and would-be owner Ethos Capital have slightly revised the set of promises they hope to keep if ICANN approves the $1.13 billion acquisition. Notably, in updating their proposed Public Interest Commitments (pdf), they’ve ...
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April 9, 2020 Kevin Murphy
censorship, Domain Registries, ethos, free speech, isoc, pics, price caps
Ethos Capital doesn’t plan to flip .org manager Public Interest Registry any time soon, according to its CEO. Erik Brooks said that private equity firm Ethos, which intends to buy PIR from the Internet Society for over a billion dollars, plans to...
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December 6, 2019 Kevin Murphy
censorship, Domain Services, ethos, isoc, price caps
A US presidential candidate has come out in support of amending the law to make domain name companies liable when customers use their services to incite violence. Beto O’Rourke, a former member of Congress, stated last week that he wants to amend...
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August 20, 2019 Kevin Murphy
cda, censorship, communications decency act, Domain Policy, section 230, terrorism
Tommy Robinson, who has been banned from most major social media platforms due to his anti-Islam “hate speech”, is now conducting business via a domain name that some believe rightfully belongs to the Muslim-majority nation of Turkey. The r...
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April 23, 2019 Kevin Murphy
.islam, .tr, censorship, Domain Policy, tommy robinson, turkey
Domain name registrar Epik.com has come under fire from prominent domain investors and others after CEO Rob Monster suggested that video of the recent mosque shootings in New Zealand, which he hosted on an Epik service and shared on social media, was a...
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March 21, 2019 Kevin Murphy
anonymize.com, censorship, Christchurch, Domain Registrars, gab, nazism, terrorism
The number of .uk domains suspended by Nominet has doubled over the last year, almost entirely due to takedown requests concerning intellectual property. The .uk registry said this week that it suspended 32,813 domains in the 12 months to October 31, u...
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November 21, 2018 Kevin Murphy
.UK, censorship, Domain Registries, piracy, suspensions
Incels.me, a web forum that hosts misogynist rants by “involuntarily celibate” men, has found a new home after .me registry doMEn suspended its domain. The web site has reappeared, apparently unscathed, under Iceland’s .is domain, at ...
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November 21, 2018 Kevin Murphy
censorship, Domain Registries, domen, hate speech, incels.me
Uniregistry has called for a “Domain Bill of Rights” to protect free speech in a world were domain takedowns can be used to de-platform controversial speakers. Meanwhile, CEO Frank Schilling has told DI that the company did not expel the ri...
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November 9, 2018 Kevin Murphy
censorship, contract for the web, domain bill of rights, Domain Services, gab.com