The popular Neo-Nazi website Stormfront was effectively taken off of the web Tuesday as domain provider Network Solutions LLC put it "under hold,” preventing visitors from reaching it and potentially indicating that it may be deleted entirely.
According to Business Insider, Stormfront founder Don Black, a former head of the KKK, complained that he is unable to either get his site back up or transfer it to another provider.
"Late Friday, without any notice, they didn't even send me an email — they decided that Stormfront was politically incorrect and therefore they could close it down,” he said on his radio show.
"Not only did they close the domain name — I can't even transfer it. I can't even try to transfer it to another registrar because they can do whatever they want.”
According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Stormfront is the “murder capital of the internet.”
"Stormfront users have been disproportionately responsible for some of the most lethal hate crimes and mass killings since the site was put up in 1995,” the SPLC wrote in a 2014 report.
"In the past five years alone, Stormfront members have murdered close to 100 people. The Report’s research shows that Stormfront’s bias-related murder rate began to accelerate rapidly in early 2009, after Barack Obama became the nation’s first black president,” the report explained. "For domestic Islamic terrorists, the breeding ground for violence is often the Al Qaeda magazine Inspire and its affiliated websites. For the racist, it is Stormfront."
The move against Stormfront came only days after domain registrar GoDaddy pulled support for the Daily Stormer, another Neo-Nazi site. Soon afterward Cloudflare, a company that provided security from hacking attacks also ceased providing its services.
In a statement explaining its actions, Cloudflare wrote that “like a lot of people, we’ve felt angry at these hateful people for a long time but we have followed the law and remained content neutral as a network.”
However, “the tipping point for us making this decision was that the team behind Daily Stormer made the claim that we were secretly supporters of their ideology.”
