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by 6sup6 1987 days ago
Can you offer some hypothesis that explain what happened?
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_nickwhite 1987 days ago
Dreamhost is/was their domain name registrar- and even though Dreamhost didn't host Parler's services, they were taking massive heat on Twitter over it.

So I guess at some point, Dreamhost as a registrar silently deleted them. Now, even if Parler wanted to move somewhere, they would have to regain control of their domain from Dreamhost.

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shrimpx 1987 days ago
They were likely running everything on aws including dns.
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_nickwhite 1987 days ago
They were running all of their websites through AWS, but didn't use AWS as the registrar.
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