"LOL, this meme just won't end," one person wrote about the Lagos reference.Īnglin revisited the idea in his update, stating, "I want to thank the Nigerian government for their help."Įarlier this year, Anglin's website was linked to an office in Worthington, Ohio, the Columbus suburb where he went to high school. People commenting on the Daily Stormer site also found the situation amusing, noting that the supposed hackers had said they had located Anglin and would be "sending our allies in Lagos to pay him a visit in person."
Referring to the all-caps message posted on the site - about an elite team targeting Anglin and his site - the account states, "We find claim that it took a 'UNITED FORCE OF ELITE HACKERS' to hack a CMS run by amateurs incredibly amusing." Wonder if they are having issues finding a new host." States, "We have no confirmation that 'Anonymous' is involved yet. News organizations around the world ran stories about the apparent takeover, which had included the explanation, "this evil cannot be allowed to stand."īut a Twitter account that often relays news about Anonymous #TANGODOWN - a term that was quickly used by opponents of the site's views to celebrate its seeming demise. The alleged hackers' message included the hashtag The Daily Stormer was founded by Anglin, who also writes much of its most high-profile content the site is supported by reader donations rather than by advertising. In a break with notable hacking takeovers, the story didn't appear as a message plastered on the front of the site instead, it was published alongside other stories, including the one about Heyer. In a page on the Daily Stormer, the purported hackers said the site would be deleted - on the same timeframe set by GoDaddy. But a main source of news about Anonymous says the group doesn't seem to have been involved. Trying to spin the threat of being taken down, posting a story that claims to be written by hackers affiliated with the activist group Anonymous. Replied late Sunday night: "We informed the Daily Stormer that they have 24 hours to move the domain to another provider, as they have violated our terms of service."Īnglin and the Daily Stormer were seen as More than 6,500 people retweeted her message, and the Web service Please retweet if you think this hate should be taken down & banned." GoDaddy had banned the site after receiving complaints from the public led by women's rights advocateĪmy Siskind, who wrote via Twitter, you host the Daily Stormer - they posted this on their site. Web domain data for shows that it was registered through Google, in records that were updated on Monday.
The Web hosting service had received calls to ban the site over its hate-filled stories - particularly an article mocking Heather Heyer, 32, an anti-white nationalist protester who was killed in Charlottesville, Va., this weekend.Īfter posting an article that claimed the site had been hacked - and that it was under threat of being deleted within 24 hours - the Daily Stormer's founder,Īndrew Anglin, announced early Monday afternoon, "I've retaken control of the site." The moves come after GoDaddy cut ties with the Daily Stormer late Sunday.
#Daily storme Offline#
Shortly after we received that message, the Daily Stormer site began to go offline at least intermittently, displaying the message, "We're having an outage.
#Daily storme registration#
"We are cancelling Daily Stormer's registration with Google Domains for violating our terms of service," a Google spokesperson told NPR on Monday. Wonder if they are having issues finding a new host. We have no confirmation that "Anonymous" is involved yet.
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