This is really big news if it's true.
Edit: I looked it up. Rob started Epik [1]. I wonder if that's really his password. Lol.
Edit 2: I wasn't aware of Epik's reputation either. I just knew they're a big (ish) registrar.
Archived OP link: https://archive.is/KJTHN
>There don't seem to be any active seeds and just under 0.5% seems to be available ATM, so... we'll see what happens!
For those that are curious what's in there:
https://gist.github.com/Q726kbXuN/57f3825493d04867c3d192fd93...
https://gist.github.com/Q726kbXuN/57f3825493d04867c3d192fd93...
Source: https://www.npr.org/2021/02/08/965448572/meet-the-man-behind...
I love how this is a tongue-in-cheek reference to the "hackers on steroids" piece from 2007 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNO6G4ApJQY
Edit: Turns out I didn't give enough attention to Transmission as it handled the file. Very impressive.
As a side note: this has got me pondering about testing edge cases on open source software. Wonder how much of that actually gets done.
Give https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/services/domains a shot.
I'm not affiliated aside from being a happy customer for over a decade. You can read their abuse-handling terms here: https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/help/abuse
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epik_(company)
Also, every registrar sends you scary emails before and after a domain expires and enter the redemption period [1].
That means you failed to:
- register for 10 years in advance
- pay attention to your email for at least 60 days (including your redemption period)
- enable auto-pay
If you had done any one of those very normal measures for a high-value domain, you would have kept your domain.
1. https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/domain-name-renewal-ex...
he still hasn't regained control -> https://www.attilahildmann.de/
Of course, it would have reduced damaged, such as pointing out that unhashed or unsalted MD5 passwords in a database is... what we've stopped doing 20 years ago for good reasons? :)
But well, if you're a big hosting provider tailoring to white supremacist content, you usually don't need so much security, since apart from anonymous-adjacent antifascists pretty much everyone is licking your boots, including law enforcement. The biggest neonazi forums have been around for decades, and their biggest proponents are well hidden behind the walls of our police stations, banks and parliaments.
Love the reference to Woody Guthrie, too https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_machine_kills_fascists
Microsoft bundling a super-insecure root daemon in all their Linux VMs. They developed it, published it on Github, embedded it everywhere, but when it turned out to be a security nightmare blamed "open source supply chain".
https://epic.org/privacy/surveillance/prg-scorecard/basis.ph...
Only two left to go?
As far as I can tell, Epik focused on hosting and DNS management for marginalized/excluded groups on the internet, so naturally they attract a lot of groups. Not sure why that'd be bad though.
Things like this also makes me actually like the company more:
> Pharmaceutical watchdog website LegitScript reported in 2018 that they had alerted Epik to the sale of illegal drugs and counterfeit medications on websites registered by Epik, and that Epik had refused to act upon the information without a court order
That's exactly how I want my hosting company to act, and any that don't are actively fragile.
The hero of hate speech is not exactly a sterling reputation to have.
[0] https://www.wired.com/story/how-right-wing-social-media-site...
And this is a megadump of a hack.
But you can buy a .MONSTER TLD For $1.49: https://www.epik.com/promos/monster
https://whois.domaintools.com/rob.monster
Domain Name: ROB.MONSTER
Registry Domain ID: D98633729-CNIC
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.psi-usa.info
Registrar URL: https://www.internetx.com/
Updated Date: 2021-06-05T01:19:43.0Z
Creation Date: 2019-04-01T14:00:01.0Z
Registry Expiry Date: 2022-04-01T23:59:59.0Z
Registrar: InternetX GmbH
Registrar IANA ID: 151
Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
Registrant Organization:
Registrant State/Province: nrw
Registrant Country: DE
Registrant Email: Please query the RDDS service of the Registrar of Record identified in this
output for information on how to contact the Registrant, Admin, or Tech contact of the queried
domain name.
Admin Email: Please query the RDDS service of the Registrar of Record identified in this
output for information on how to contact the Registrant, Admin, or Tech contact of the queried
domain name.
Tech Email: Please query the RDDS service of the Registrar of Record identified in this output
for information on how to contact the Registrant, Admin, or Tech contact of the queried domain
name.
Name Server: NS1.WESELLTHISDOMAIN.COM
Name Server: NS2.WESELLTHISDOMAIN.COM
Name Server: NS3.WESELLTHISDOMAIN.COM
DNSSEC: unsigned
Billing Email: Please query the RDDS service of the Registrar of Record identified in this
output for information on how to contact the Registrant, Admin, or Tech contact of the queried
domain name.
Registrar Abuse Contact Email:
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone:
URL of the ICANN Whois Inaccuracy Complaint Form: https://www.icann.org/wicf/https://blog.nearlyfreespeech.net/2021/01/19/free-speech-in-...
They will "*not* lift one finger to help you [host your site here]" (emphasis theirs)
If you are not politically to their taste, they will look for a reason to kick you off as opposed to their other customers, "we *will* kick you off the instant you give us a reason".
In that same post, they revealed they will cooperate with police requests without any court documents or warrants being provided, putting them in the 'fragile' class of hosting providers.
Anonymous is not bashing the fash, they now do the bidding of the far-left Establishment, enforce state-approved Censorship and Cancel Culture of any dissidents against the monoculture cathedral regime - who now just are your average regular independents, libertarians, and freedom loving populists.
Anyone who still falls for "but they're nazis and fascism is bad mmk" is either dishonest or not following this subject matter. Just because you don't like someone doesnt mean they're nazis.
I doubt this is even Anonymous. The real Anonymous would not be hacking companies providing free speech (no matter how bad the security).
This is an incredibly shortsighted / insular perspective. We live in a world where conservative orthodox Jews (e.g. Ben Shapiro) are called Nazi's and conservative Black folks (Larry Elder) are being called white supremacists, simply for being conservative. Likewise, progressives and other left leaning individuals that dare utter criticism of the left are met with the milder insult of being called conservative (e.g. Tim Pool, Glenn Greenwald, Bill Maher). People are deliberately shifting the overton window to a ridiculous degree and the scary thing is that they are getting away with it.
I can imagine a lot of regular conservatives worry about censorship and may find Epik to be a safer bet than, say, Google who blocks pro-life ads [1]. I can understand that maybe from your perspective (assuming you're left leaning) you are not aware of how hostile society has become to mainstream conservatism, but you should try to see things from the perspective of a regular conservative who sees prominent mainstream conservatives being slandered, lied about, and cancelled all around them.
Aside from that, Epik did have a few differentiating features like offering single purchase lifetime Domain ownership that I haven't seen elsewhere, which by itself could be sufficient motivation for people to host with them, without the necessarily knowing anything about potential controversy surrounding the business.
[1] https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/google-blocks-ad-for-s...