SAN FRANCISCO — Neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer attempted to switch its domain registration to Google after GoDaddy booted the site over an article on deadly protests at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va.

The switch, first reported by Reuters, was visible via a public records search on Whois, which displays domain registration information. But hours later, Google's press office said in a statement to USA TODAY that the website violates its terms of service and has since been removed.

Yet The Daily Stormer remained online Monday despite the controversy. GoDaddy, which is the largest Internet domain-name seller in the world, announced Sunday evening it will no longer provide service to The Daily Stormer.

The company (GDDY), which is based in Scottsdale, Ariz., has drawn criticism for months for its willingness to provide a domain name for a website "dedicated to spreading anti-Semitism, neo-Nazism, and white nationalism," according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.

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The move comes after The Daily Stormer published an article Sunday using sexist and obscene language to demean Heather Heyer, the 32-year-old woman who was killed when a car driven by an alleged white supremacist drove into a crowd of counter-protesters after the Charlottesville, Va., rally.

After someone tweeted a reference to the article asking GoDaddy to remove it and ban the site, GoDaddy replied, "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."

GoDaddy corporate spokesman Dan Race confirmed the action in an email to The Arizona Republic, which like USA TODAY is a part of the USA TODAY Network.

The site was formed in 2013 and contains a variety of content under headlines such as "Race War" and "Jewish Problem." The homepage depicts a white video game character punching a black character.

"GoDaddy does not condone content that advocates expressions of hate, racism, bigotry," said Ben Butler, director of GoDaddy's digital crimes unit. "However, we generally do not take action on complaints that would constitute censorship of content and that represents the exercise of freedom of speech and expression on the Internet.

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"While we detest the sentiment of such sites, we support a free and open Internet and, similar to the principles of free speech, that sometimes means allowing such tasteless, ignorant content," he said.

He said the recent content on The Daily Stormer crossed the line by encouraging violence.

Domain-name registry services allow people to access the site's content by linking the www.dailystormer.com address to the actual computer hosting the content. GoDaddy did not host the company's information on its services.

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A domain-registry search tool on Monday showed the services were transferred to Google, which also said the site violated its terms of service and removed it. It was not clear Monday afternoon what company was hosting the site.

Previously, the company served "as the domain name registrar for The Daily Stormer, through its subsidiary Domains by Proxy, as it has throughout the site’s four-year history," according to the investigative news website, Reveal.

Daily Stormer's producer Andrew Anglin posted a message Monday that ignored the rebuke from GoDaddy and instead blamed a brief disruption on the site as the work of the international computer-hacking group Anonymous.

Anonymous, which has no formal leadership structure but does have Twitter accounts associated with it, tweeted Monday that it was unaware of any of its followers hacking the site. The tweet suggested Anglin was faking the hack of his site.

"This is likely to be the derps from dailystormer engaging in a silly troll to woo their clueless base," the Anonymous tweet said. "If we're proven wrong, so be it."

Contributing: Ryan Randazzo, The Arizona Republic. Follow Kaila White and Rachel Sandler on Twitter: @kailawhite and @rachsandl </s> Popular voice chat platform Discord has shut down several servers and accounts associated with the alt-right for violations of the terms of service. The company announced the enforcement action on Twitter, emphasizing that it is “about positivity and inclusivity. Not hate. Not violence.”

Predictably, this was quickly followed by accusations of censorship and political bias, and the near-universal assumption that the accounts in question had been banned for ideological reasons. One could, of course, just as easily claim (as some do with Twitter and Reddit) that by tolerating the accounts for as long as it did, Discord supports the ideologies in question.

The company cleared things up in a statement: “We unequivocally condemn white supremacy, neonazism, or any other group, term, ideology that is based on these beliefs. They are not welcome on Discord.”

“While we don’t read people’s private servers our Terms of Service explicitly forbid harassment, threatening messages, or calls to violence…The public server linked to AltRight.com that violated [the ToS] was shut down along with several other public groups and accounts fostering bad actors on Discord.”

In response to calls for counter-protestors’ Discord servers to be shut down as well, the company invited people to report them (email abuse at discordapp.com with details) and they would be investigated just as altright.com’s was.

Hate speech like that proudly employed by those organizing, participating in and discussing the horrifying events in Charlottesville is unwelcome on many platforms. In fact, discouraging hate speech is an ideological stance common to nearly all internet services, with the marked exception of services created specifically to circumvent that stance.

Different companies’ efforts and success in combating it vary widely, but just today GoDaddy revoked neo-Nazi website Daily Stormer’s hosting and Google kicked it off the domain registry — both for pretty clear ToS violations. Airbnb has been pretty clear about what’s allowed on its platform, as well.

We can certainly expect more actions like this, and for similar reactions as neo-Nazis and their like are removed from services to which they have forfeited their privilege to use. It seems likely this will lead to a pitiful, parallel Internet of Hate as the excommunicated communities coalesce and organize. Sad!

Here’s the full statement, for the curious: </s> Neo-Nazi website the Daily Stormer had its domain registration revoked twice in less than 24 hours, in moves that threatened to take it offline if it does not find a replacement for GoDaddy and Google, which both said the site had violated their terms of service. GoDaddy Inc disclosed late on Sunday via Twitter that it had given The Daily Stormer 24 hours to move its domain to another provider, saying it had violated GoDaddy’s terms of service. The white supremacist website, associated with the alt-right movement, helped organize the weekend rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, that turned violent.

GoDaddy feared the site might be used to incite further violence after the events in Charlottesville, including the death of Heather Heyer, who was fatally struck by a car allegedly driven by a man with white nationalist views. “With the violence that occurred over the weekend, the company believed this site could incite additional violence,” said the person who was not authorized to publicly discuss the matter.

The Daily Stormer responded by moving its registration to Alphabet Inc’s Google Domains, which offers transfers through an automated online process that the Internet company says typically takes 20 minutes or less to complete.

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The domain was registered with Google shortly before 8 a.m. California time and the company announced plans to revoke it at 10:56 a.m., according to somebody familiar with the revocation. “We don’t want our services to incite violence,” said the person. It was not immediately clear when Google’s move would take effect. The Daily Stormer was online and its Internet registration listed Google Inc as the registrar as of midday California time.

GoDaddy has previously faced sharp criticism for hosting The Daily Stormer and other sites that spread hate.

The internet hosting company’s rules of conduct ban using its services in a manner that “promotes, encourages or engages in terrorism, violence against people, animals or property.”

Meanwhile, Cloudflare, a private firm that also provides internet services to The Daily Stormer, declined to say if it was looking at severing ties. “Cloudflare is aware of the concerns that have been raised over some sites that have used our network. We find the content on some of these sites repugnant,” the company said in a statement. “While our policy is to not comment on any user specifically, we are cooperating with law enforcement in any investigation,” it added.

Daily Storm publisher Andrew Anglin could not be reached for comment. </s> Domain hosting company GoDaddy said Monday that neo-Nazi website the Daily Stormer has 24 hours to find a new provider before its service is canceled following the publication of a disparaging article about the woman killed in the Charlottesville protests.

Shortly after the announcement, the Daily Stormer — the top hate site in America, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center — moved its domain to Google.

But in a matter of hours, Google announced it, too, would not be hosting the website.

On Sunday, the Daily Stormer published an article about Heather Heyer, who died after a vehicle plowed into a group of counter-protesters demonstrating against white supremacists.

A Twitter user flagged the offensive content by taking a screengrab of the article, and tweeting it at GoDaddy.

The article, which had the byline of the Daily Stormer's founder Andrew Anglin, mocked Heyer’s looks and degraded her for not being a mother.

It also elevated the suspected driver, James Alex Fields, Jr., saying, “despite the cool demeanor he shows in his social media profile pictures, it appears that road rage got the best of him.”

“We have informed the Daily Stormer that they have 24 hours to move the domain to another provider, as they have violated our terms of service. If no action is taken after 24 hours, we will cancel the service,” GoDaddy spokesman Dan Race wrote in an email to NBC News.

Race also noted that GoDaddy does not host the Daily Stormer on its servers — it only hosts the domain.

The Daily Stormer, which takes its name from the gutter Nazi propaganda sheet known as “Der Stürmer,” promotes anti-Semitism, neo-Nazism, and white nationalism, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.

In the past, GoDaddy said it could not disable the Daily Stormer’s domain or that of other neo-Nazi website, because of Anglin and others’ First Amendment right and freedom of speech.

“Given their latest article comes on the immediate heels of a violent act, we believe this type of article could incite additional violence, which violates our terms of service,” Race said.

By Monday afternoon, Google had decided to drop the Daily Stormer's domain registration, too.

“We are cancelling Daily Stormer’s registration with Google Domains for violating our terms of service,” a Google spokesperson wrote in an email to NBC News.

A search for the domain showed Google was still hosting Daily Stormer as of 3 p.m. Monday. It was not immediately clear when Google would drop the site.

Following the article about Heyer and the announcement that GoDaddy would be ending the Daily Stormer’s service, the site appeared to have been hacked by internet activist group Anonymous.

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An article with Anonymous’ signature Guy Fawkes mask appeared at the top of the page on Monday morning with a headline reading, “END OF HATE: ANONYMOUS NOW IN CONTROL OF DAILY STORMER.”

However, an Anonymous Twitter account noted that it could not verify the authenticity of the hack and warned its followers to “remain cautious.”

Later on Monday, a story on the Daily Stormer with Anglin's byline on it said the site was back in the hands of its founder. </s> PHOENIX — GoDaddy, which is the largest Internet domain-name seller in the world, announced Sunday evening it will no longer provide service to the neo-Nazi website, The Daily Stormer.

The company (GDDY), which is based in Scottsdale, Ariz., has drawn criticism for months for its willingness to provide a domain name for a website "dedicated to spreading anti-Semitism, neo-Nazism, and white nationalism," according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.

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The move comes after The Daily Stormer published an article Sunday using sexist and obscene language to demean Heather Heyer, the 32-year-old woman who was killed when a car driven by an alleged white supremacist mowed down a crowd of people after a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va.

After someone tweeted a reference to the article asking GoDaddy to remove it and ban the site, GoDaddy replied, "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."

GoDaddy corporate spokesman Dan Race confirmed the action in an email to The Arizona Republic, which like USA TODAY is a part of the USA TODAY Network.

Previously, the company served "as the domain name registrar for The Daily Stormer, through its subsidiary Domains by Proxy, as it has throughout the site’s four-year history," according to the investigative news website, Reveal.

March 2017: Racist 'assassin' indicted as terrorist in NYC murder of black man </s> Russia's media watchdog said Thursday it "requested" that a Russian internet provider boot The Daily Stormer off its website because the American group spews neo-Nazi propaganda and incites racial and national hatred.

The Daily Stormer had briefly taken refuge at the Ru-center, which provided the Russian domain, after being kicked off American servers by GoDaddy and Google following the uproar over Charlottesville white nationalist demonstrations.

Even before the Russian watchdog officially stepped in, the neo-Nazi website had been forced to retreat temporarily to the dark Web when security firm Cloudflare severed ties with the site Wednesday.

Officially, Roskomnadzor, the watchdog organization, can only shutdown websites on charges of extremism after approval from Russia’s General Prosecutor’s Office, The Moscow Times reported, but its "request" carries considerable weight.

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The original U.S. domain — www.dailystormer.com — was discontinued Monday. The site's owners then attempted to register a domain in both China and Russia. The Chinese domain, www.dailystormer.wang, and the url from Russia, www.dailystormer.ru, were shut down just hours after being created.

The site now can only be accessed on the dark Web with a free anonymizing browser such as Tor. Content on the dark Web is not indexed by popular search engines such as Google.

Alexander Zharov, head of the Russian watchdog organization Roskomnadzor, told the Interfax news agency the watchdog had “asked” the Ru-center to stop servicing the website.

GoDaddy CEO Blake Irving, explaining why it rejected the site, told CNBC that there is a "very fine line between making sure we're not being a censor and making sure we're acting in a responsible manner."

"But when the line gets crossed and that speech starts to incite violence then we have a responsibility to take that down," Irving said.

GoDaddy took action after the website verbally attacked Heather Heyer, the 32-year-old legal assistant who was run down and killed during the Charlottesville demonstrations.

The neo-Nazi website called her "fat" and "childless" and said "most people are glad she is dead, as she is the definition of uselessness."

After GoDaddy and Google booted the site, other tech companies providing services to The Daily Stormer followed suit.

Zoho, which provided email services to the website, and Sendgrid, an email marketing company, both said they would no longer serve The Daily Stormer. Both Discord and Discourse, companies that run open-source chatrooms used by Daily Stormer users, said on Twitter they had kicked the site off, too.

Tech companies' rejection of any association with The Daily Stormer, which published articles grouped under headings such as "Jewish Problem" and "Race War," and gave followers detailed instructions on what items to bring to Charlottesville, represents a stronger response from the industry on domestic hate groups.

Any removal from the public eye may be be short-lived. As soon as The Daily Stormer gets kicked off one platform, its founders seem to find another or build their own. They have an incentive: while operating on the dark Web offers a way to operate without the nod from a domain registration company such as Google, it won't be available to as many readers as possible.

"They don't want to hide, they want to recruit," said Linda Woolf, a psychology professor at Webster University in Missouri studying hate groups online. "They'll do whatever they can to reach people." </s> Twitter and Cloudflare have followed in the footsteps of fellow internet titans GoDaddy, Google and Facebook by taking action against the Daily Stormer, a white supremacist website that’s been all but driven offline after mocking the woman killed while protesting a white nationalist rally this weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia.

A Twitter account used to provide updates on behalf of the Daily Stormer, @rudhum, was abruptly suspended Wednesday as the infamous neo-Nazi website continues to face blowback over a recent tirade targeting Heather Heyer, the 32-year-old woman who was fatally run over by a car Saturday while counterprotesting the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville.

“The Twitter Rules prohibit violent threats, harassment, hateful conduct and multiple account abuse, and we will take action on accounts violating those policies,” a company spokesperson said broadly with respect to the suspension, while declining to comment on individual accounts.

Cloudflare, a tech firm hired by The Daily Stormer to protect its websites from distributed denial-of-service attacks, a tactic used to knock sites offline, terminated its contract Wednesday, Andrew Auernheimer, an administrator of the website, told The Washington Times.

The DDoS protection firm’s CEO acknowledged dropping The Daily Stormer as a client in an interview with The Verge later Wednesday.

“This was my decision, I don’t think it’s CloudFlare’s policy and I think it’s an extremely dangerous decision in a lot of ways,” said CEO Matthew Prince. “I think that we as the internet need to have a conversation about where the right place for content restriction is … but there was no way we could have that conversation until we resolved this particular issue.”

The Daily Stormer has struggled to maintain an accessible internet presence after its publisher, Andrew Anglin, penned an article Saturday describing Heyer as an “overweight slob” and “the definition of uselessness.” GoDaddy and then Google responded one after another by booting The Daily Stormer from its domain registration services. The racist website has since tried hopping to at least two other domains — dailystormer.wang and dailystormer.ru — in a bid to stay online.

Facebook has begun deleting posts linking to Mr. Anglin’s article and has banned the pages of at least 10 groups this week accused of violating the social network’s policies against hate speech, a spokesperson told The Washington Times on Wednesday.

“The CloudFlare betrayal adds another layer of super complexity,” Mr. Anglin responded online. “But we got this.”

Neither of The Daily Stormer’s two latest domains nor a mirrored version of the website hosted on the deep web could be immediately accessed Wednesday afternoon.

Mr. Auernheimer referred The Times to public accounts he and Mr. Anglin each maintain on Gab.ai, an alternative social network, as well as The Daily Stormer’s presence on VK, a Facebook alternative popular in Russia, when reached for comment. </s> Neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer has found a home on the Russian internet after American tech companies refused to host it.

GoDaddy (GDDY) canceled the website's registration on Monday after The Daily Stormer published a derogatory story about Heather Heyer, who was killed while protesting against a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia at the weekend.

Google (GOOGL, Tech30) briefly became the registrar for the site, before it too canceled the site's registration later on Monday for violating its terms of service.

The site, which calls itself "The World's Most Genocidal Republican Website," was forced into the "dark web." That meant it could not be accessed through standard web browsers.

The original website, Dailystormer.com, was still offline on Wednesday afternoon. But the site could be accessed at Dailystormer.ru after the domain was registered with the Russian Network Information Center, or RU-CENTER.

Russia's largest domain name registrar confirmed it had registered the site.

"I should point out that registry is automatic, so RU-CENTER registers thousands of domains per day," spokesperson Egor Timofeev said in a statement emailed to CNNMoney.

"If we figure out that the domain owner's work doesn't correspond to the legal system, we will act according to Russian web standard regulation," he added.

The Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups, says the site spreads "anti-Semitism, neo-Nazism, and white nationalism, primarily through guttural hyperbole and epithet-laden stories about topics like alleged Jewish world control and black-on-white crime."

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Russia has recently dialed up its censorship of the internet.

The government's media and telecommunication watchdog, Roskomnadzor, has blocked thousands of websites and maintains a long list of banned content.

The list includes websites taken down because of data protection concerns and laws prohibiting the distribution of "gay propaganda", as well as political content the government deems "extremist."

Roskomnadzor did not respond to CNNMoney's request for comment. </s> NEW YORK CITY (JTA) –GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain name seller, will no longer provide service to the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer.

In response to a tweet Sunday, Aug. 13, about a Daily Stormer article that smeared Heather Heyer — the 32-year-old killed in the car ramming during Saturday’s protests in Charlottesville, Virginia — as a “fat” and “childless” “slut,” the company said The Daily Stormer had violated its terms of service.

A GoDaddy representative confirmed the action to The Arizona Republic.

According to the Huffington Post, The Daily Stormer had been using GoDaddy since 2013. The Southern Povery Law Center describes The Daily Stormer as dedicated to “spreading anti-Semitism, neo-Nazism and white nationalism.”
Several internet companies, such as domain registrar GoDaddy and video game chat application Discord, shut down services for neo-Nazi, white supremacist, alt-right website The Daily Stormer for violation of terms of service, and in response to this weekend's violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.