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Old August 26th, 2017 #12
garryowen
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Network Solutions has also prohibited Stormfront from updating, transferring or deleting its web forum on its own. That means Stormfront's web masters cannot re-introduce the site on another domain.

Should Network Solutions go through with deleting the website itself, any re-emerging version would have to start from scratch.
I don't believe that they can legally do that, because the only thing that Network Solutions controls is the Stormfront name (ie, stormfront.org).

There's absolutely nothing preventing the same content from being re-hosted under a different domain name (and possibly a different web content server, depending on whether they were booted off their hosting service as well) - for example, stormfront.us or stormsite.tw. The journalists don't appear to be very familiar with the way the Internet works (not surprising in this day and age, when journalism has mostly degenerated to the level of the National Enquirer).

The problem, of course, will be finding a DNS service that will be willing to sell a domain name to Don for that purpose. This may no longer be possible in the US, given the anti-free speech climate here nowadays, but it may well be possible elsewhere.

If nothing else, there's always the .onion network.

Sean.