[dfps]

They being the domain registrar (edit thx betafive) for the domain (they already didn't host the content). Also, this followed hacking and threats:

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(CNN)The Daily Stormer, a white supremacist and neo-Nazi website, needs to find another domain name provider after GoDaddy gave it the boot following a derogatory story about the woman killed at the Charlottesville, Virginia, rally.

The site, which calls itself "The World's Most Genocidal Republican Website," registered its name with GoDaddy -- but GoDaddy doesn't host the Daily Stormer's content.

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(Guardian)A message purportedly posted by hackers has appeared on the Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi website, saying the site has been taken over in response to an article criticising a woman who died during violence at far-right rally in Virginia over the weekend.

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What I'm curious about is Google. Are they providing hosting and domain serving for anybody (even unpopular speech)? Where does content go when companies refuse to work with publishers?

[betafive]

Google has replaced GoDaddy as the registrar. Afaict, the domain continues to be hosted by/through CloudFlare, as it has been for several years.

The "hack" is fake.

[duskwuff]

> The "hack" is fake.

Unproven but likely. The "defaced" page was posted through their CMS (WordPress), which is rather atypical for defaced domains. The writer's promise to only take the domain down for 24 hours is also quite unusual.

What seems most likely to me is that this was used as an excuse to take down their content until their domain was transferred away from GoDaddy.

[dfps]

So is Google now a more reliable/bulletproof registrar? I think I've heard CloudFlare will not take refuse anything

[betafive]

Tbh, I doubt Google knows they're the Stormers' registrar yet; you can transfer domains automatically.

CloudFlare doesn't provide hosting, it's a reverse proxy. But, if you believe http://www.crimeflare.com/cfs.html, the actual web server sitting behind dailystormer.com is hosted by online.net, of France.

[dfps]

Right. I use CF. I just meant that there has been criticism aimed at CF for 'protecting' (providing service to) unpopular speech (even harmful stuff like IS), and I think I read they were unwilling to refuse service to anybody.

France, hey? I've actually heard France is competitive with US when it comes to internet and free speech. Do you think that's true? I wonder which country most protects speech on the internet?

[betafive]

It is illegal to promote ethnic hatred or deny the Holocaust in France, so...

[dfps]

Is there any country that protects all speech that you know of?

(Related to the law you mentioned, in Germany they also have laws that are reactions to WWII, and they arrested some Chinese tourists for making Nazi salutes for tourist photos outside a government building last week.)

[jlgaddis]

It seems that entry may be out-of-date (or else traffic to {80,443}/TCP from not-Cloudflare sources is being filtered).