Epik will provide registrar services but not content delivery. CEO Monster says, “Their community grew and their moderation skills did not.”
Domain name registrar Epik has issued an update on providing services to 8chan.
8chan came under fire after the shooting in El Paso this weekend. The site operator moved the domain to Epik, a registrar which has welcomed domain names for other controversial websites such as Gab.
Epik CEO Rob Monster told Domain Name Wire yesterday that it had not solicited 8chan’s business. He also said that the company had not made a decision on whether it should provide content delivery services and DDoS mitigation to the site.
Then Epik’s upstream provider for these services, Voxility, pulled the plug. This caused Epik to scramble to replace Voxility.
Today, the company said it will not provide content delivery services to 8chan. Here’s the company’s statement about this:
Upon careful consideration of the recent operating history of 8Chan, and in the wake of tragic news in El Paso and Dayton over the weekend, Epik has elected to not provide content delivery services to 8Chan. This is largely due to the concern of inadequate enforcement and the elevated possibility of violent radicalization on the platform.
How much of this decision was Epik’s as opposed to finding a backend provider for its services is not clear. Perhaps Voxility just forced its hand. Monster elaborated on the official statement in a message to Domain Name Wire:
The issue is that their community grew and their moderation skills did not. This was neglect, and like a neglected building it eventually became a menace to itself.
Monster told Domain Name Wire that his company will continue to provide registrar services to 8chan.
BullS says
Did you meet Rob in person in Medina?
Are both of you guys neighbors?
Andrew Allemann says
No I did not
Jean William says
Reminds me of .ECO Domain Services being singled out and constantly harassed by you Allemenn.
Nope, no thanks says
Harassed? Really? The overwhelming majority of the domain community, as well as the individuals posting comments regarding Rob’s decisions, are just expressing their opinions. Free speech. Ironic that you feel it necessary to come to Mr. Monster’s rescue.
Until someone starts posting threats here that they’re going to kill Rob, or that they’re going to walk into a Walmart and start shooting people who look like Rob Monster, you should probably STFU because it looks like you just promoted the .Eco registry off of one of the worst days in the history of the United States.
“Waaa, the .Eco TLD isn’t popular. Waaaa!”
In the middle of a discussion about white nationalists and neo-nazi’s. GFY.
Smell it says
Anyone who uses the term “domain community” is a stinky leftist, and anything comment or opinion they share before or after “domain community” is immediately discounted as worthless by anyone with a work ethic and an IQ above 100.
Richard Funden says
You just used it…
Snoopy says
Go away with your trademark nonsense. You are trying to hijack a perfectly good thread.
Jean William says
Nice try Allemenn. You singled us out and you know exactly why. Stop trying to make this into a different subject.
Being referred to as Kunta Kinte, Loser, deadbeats and other derogatory explicits by you and coconspitors, just because we applied for a gTLD is disturbing, scary and senseless.
Promoting a business we don’t own and being barred market entry also makes no sense.
Not only are we sadden and aware but are very sensitive to another horrific mass shooting that is also senseless. They may not be our relatives but these are real God given lives. No different than you and I.
I pray that one day people like you can live your life and not interfere with others that are simply trying to live theirs.
Just because a person doesn’t look like you doesn’t make them subhuman or bad.
Andrew Allemann says
I don’t know what comment you are responding too.
Bul says
Dude. You’re calling Andrew a racist on his own forum without even substantive evidance of your claims right on his forum. How just is that given that youre arguing about justice. I am a regular on here and i am yet to see Andrew advocating for violence or any kind of racism. Whats going on here.
Charles Christopher says
Looks like “.ECO(R)” used the term, not Andrew:
https://domainnamewire.com/2013/08/26/planet-eco-loses-objections-against-tldh-for-eco-top-level-domain-name/#comment-2248701
Google suggests that thread’s user post, and this thread’s user post, are the only places the term appears on this site.
Andrew Allemann says
Yeah, I’ve never even heard that term before.
Jean William says
I don’t know Allemann nor what his position is regarding your label. I do know he labeled us and that information was immediately removed from the Internet after we posted the following to his blog on Feb. 27 2018:
“we paid a handsome $185,000 gTLD application fee to participate in a Federal Program, who’s Government Contractor gave the “.eco” designation to an executive it hired that helped create the policies and procedures of the program it used for its so-called award.”
Finally, this is not court nor a forum to waste time sit and argue about justice.
Andrew Allemann says
This is not true, and I’m not going to waste more time responding to this person.
Jean William says
I disagree with the response from Allemen and will not waste more time as his memory now fails him.
There is no point as Allemen does not seem to recall contacting me for information then immediately labeling us as “Losers” in numerous articles from that point on.
Until this day I don’t know why he would do such a thing considering we never responded to his request.
Jean William says
No clarification needed. My comment was made to you.
Charles Christopher says
> August 3. As captured by Archive.org
I believe you, however I am not able to pull up any records for Aug 1, 2 or 3. Everything shows 301 during crawl time. Am I doing something wrong? Thanks
Andrew Allemann says
Had the same thing happen and then finally it popped up.
Charles Christopher says
I see it now thank you!
patrick Cowan says
Go to zero hedge.com racists comments abound, but it is also a very popular financial news aggregator it gets a pass.
You have to let people say what they want, you don’t have to agree that is what we call free society,ps check out Facebook it allows all sorts of “racism” as long as your on the side of the majority.
Anastasiu Gabriel says
pretty good find…if it was true 🙂