Stormfront Shutdown is Almost as Relevant a Precedent as the Stormer Shutdown

Andrew Anglin
Daily Stormer
August 26, 2017

As we reported yesterday, Stormfront was shut down in a manner similar to the way DailyStormer.com was shut down: their domain registrar just stole the domain, putting it on “client hold” so that they don’t have access to it.

This is the same “internet jail” that DailyStormer.com was placed in by Google.

There was no news coverage when Stormfront disappeared. My own article wasn’t published until at least 12 hours after it had happened.

Finally – 49 minutes ago, at time of writing – a single article has been published about it.

In the Knoxville News-Sentinel, of all places:

Stormfront, an international supremacist web forum, appears to have been seized by its website host, Network Solutions, LLC.

The forum disappeared Friday. WhoIs, a web service that tracks site ownership, reported the Stormfront domain’s status as “under hold.”

According to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, a nonprofit that coordinates name spaces on the Internet, a hold status is an uncommon status that indicates a site is under legal dispute or about to be deleted.

Network Solutions has also prohibited Stormfront from updating, transferring or deleting its web forum on its own. That means Stormfront’s web masters cannot re-introduce the site on another domain.

Should Network Solutions go through with deleting the website itself, any re-emerging version would have to start from scratch.

This is inaccurate information. They have been giving inaccurate information since this shutdown began. Newsweek did a long piece where they confused web-hosting, domain name registry and DDoS protection.

I get that journalists are not tech experts, but it is somewhat absurd that they don’t have someone review these posts.

Stormfront, I assume, still has all of their data on their server, which is separate from the domain registry. All the domain registry does is resolve the IP address of the site into the letters that you type in your address bar – “stormfront.org.”

What you are reading now on the Darkweb version of the Daily Stormer is simply a redirection of our server to the Onion address.

So they would not have to “start from scratch” if they got their domain back.

The move comes less than two weeks after the domain host GoDaddy told the supremacist commentary site The Daily Stormer that it had 24 hours to find a new web host after the site published a post praising the death of Heather Heyer, who was killed at a violent supremacist rally in Charlottseville that the site referred to as “The Battle of Charlottesville.” Google pulled its support for the site soon after.

This is false also.

I mocked her as a person, I did not “praise her death.”

The internet security service CloudFlare also removed its protections from The Daily Stormer. So when the site found a new domain with Dreamhost, the host reportedly fell under a mass Distributed Denial of Service attack, which shut The Daily Stormer down again.

This is again factually wrong (and not something that relies on technical knowledge).

We were on dailystormer.ru when Cloudflare quit. By the time I was on Dreamhost, I had new DDoS protection. Dreamhost simply banned me because they were getting DDoSed at their DNS server, because of my speech, or both, and gave two separate lies as to why they dropped me (I will write a full article on that soon).

The Stormfront forum is also a CloudFlare client. Spokeswoman Daniella Vallurupalli declined comment on the status of its service agreement with the website. “Cloudflare’s policy is to not comment on users without their permission,” she said.

Well then.

Why are they commenting on me?

Why are they calling me an “asshole” on VICE news?

Maybe the CEO should be fired for violating this policy?

Don Black, a former Grand Wizard in the Klu Klux Klan and member of the American Nazi Party, launched Stormfront about 10 years ago as an online bulletin board system. The website had amassed more than 300,000 members on at least four continents before its disappearance.

This is also false.

Stormfront started in 1990 as a bulletin board, and stormfront.org was launched in 1996. That’s on their Wikipedia page.

Anyway, here’s why the Knoxville News-Sentinel is the only one writing about this.

Black began hosting summits for the online community in East Tennessee in 2010. This year, the group was planning its seventh annual “Great Smoky Mountain Summit” at an undisclosed location near Knoxville. Plans for the summit included appearances by Klu Klux Klan attorney Sam Dickson and David Duke, another prominent former KKK leader.

It is unclear if those plans will go on now that the forum has been removed.

The USA Today Network—Tennessee has reached out to Black via email and Twitter to find out if plans for the summit continue. Black’s email however, is registered on the same domain as Stormfront, so Black may not be able to access the message.

That is a lot of errors in that article.

No wonder these people get called “fake news.”

This is Insane

Every aspect of this is insane. Firstly, this is a lot different than what happened to Daily Stormer. We were taken offline after a mega-protest following a viral article viewed by 2% of the US population making fun of a woman who had just been killed in a politically-charged car crash.

There was a massive media storm surrounding the shut down, which did involve some voices standing up and saying that it was wrong for my First Amendment rights to be shut down by a cabal of tech elites.

Every move we have made to try to get back on the surface internet has resulted in mass media coverage.

With Stormfront, the site just disappears. The media doesn’t report on it. The SPLC doesn’t report on it. The company that took the domain doesn’t make a statement. Don Black doesn’t make a statement – at least not on any public platform. The site simply disappears.

And that, my friends, is the new model for censorship that they are attempting to roll out. Which they have already rolled out, in fact.

Of course, we still have time to reverse it – but not much.

This is why I said: the shutting down of dailystormer.com was not about me or my ideas. It was not about fat jokes about a dead woman. It was about the principle of free speech.

Sitting Duck

Earlier today, I lamented on Gab that when you searched for “stormfront” on Google News, you got the top story that they were attacking other white advocates.

Regrettably, this is very characteristic of Stormfront. It was a very insular site, which was largely filled with materials attacking pro-white advocates. This is to say, those who were not members of the site are perhaps not very fond of it, or are unaware or only vaguely aware of its existence.

As such, there is not going to be a public outcry over it. I am going to do my best to create one. But it is difficult, because of the nature of the site, and the levels of animosity it created.

Of course, they knew this. And when I say “they” – I am talking about whoever is coordinating this shutdown. I don’t know who specifically is doing it, but someone is playing intermediary to all of these tech companies involved. That is clear. I would tend to assume it is the SPLC and/or the ADL, in coordination with the FBI and/or “former” FBI agents.

The shutting of Stormfront, via this new technique of domain seizure, sets a new precedent: you don’t have to have made edgy jokes about a fat woman, you don’t have to go viral, you don’t even have to be the least bit culturally relevant. They can now just take you off the internet because you are white.

Another precedent that was set here is that the media doesn’t have to mention it when you disappear. That was obviously purposeful. There was a blackout on it, and these people at the Knoxville News-Sentinel missed the memo.

I have emailed Don Black. I also want to offer any of the mods of the site an opportunity to publish here on our Darknet site. We can’t run a forum here, but if there is anything that needs to be said, that you would like to say, I can get it out there.

#Unite

One thing to take away from this is that we have to stick together.

We have to.

This sort of thing that Stormfront was involved in – this attacking of other white advocates – it has to end.

We don’t have any choice here. We are under a full-on assault.

And there is an intelligence operation being run on us. We need to be aware of this, we need to act with knowledge of it, and we need to understand that the number one thing that they want to do is turn us against one another.

Sites are now going to start dropping like flies. And this is because there wasn’t a significant enough rally around Daily Stormer. I think people within the movement did rally around us, but others within the larger right-wing did not.

There is no question as to whether or not we will get back on the surface internet. Of course we will. We’re working on it day and night. Right now, I haven’t slept in two days.

And if we somehow ever get kicked off of that permanently, we will be here on the Darknet (where we are now the number one site in the history of Tor, by the way).

However, is Stormfront going to get back online?

Will they make a darkweb site?

I hope so, but I’m not sure how likely it is.

I think some people are maybe in denial about what is happening right now. This is a huge move to simply silence us, completely. Hopefully, we can get enough attention that we can force the government to intervene, and begin regulating ICANN like they did before Obama gave it away in October of last year.

Whatever the case, we are in a very difficult situation right now.

And we must stick together.

Remember that.

It is the most important thing.