Domain registrar GoDaddy has taken down white nationalist Richard Spencer’s site Altright.com, saying the site “crossed the line” in promoting violence. BuzzFeed reported the news yesterday, noting that Spencer had also been kicked off Facebook a few weeks earlier. Altright.com is currently offline, and GoDaddy told BuzzFeed that Spencer had 48 hours to transfer to a new registrar. When a... 

Two far-right websites have recently been taken down due to pressure from left-wing activists. The first to go was Andrew Anglin’s Daily Stormer. The reason for his website being taken down was that he said some insulting things about Heather Heyer, the woman killed in Charlottesville when James Fields was fleeing an Antifa attack. While ridiculing a dead political enemy may be considered bad taste,... 

As social media and internet companies scramble to ban or otherwise cut ties with extremist and far right-wing websites like the neo-nazi Daily Stormer, which were unceremoniously dropped by the likes of GoDaddy, Google and security firm Cloudflare earlier this week after helping to organize last weekend’s deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, a prominent nonprofit has come forward... 

Thousands leave GoDaddy over registrar's support for SOPA Thousands of website domains were transferred on Thursday from the Internet’s top registrar Go Daddy as part of a colossal campaign against the service for its support of the Stop Online Piracy Act. With managing close to 50 million domain names, Go Daddy is the largest registrar on the web and has customers across the globe. Thousands...