Stormfront, an international supremacist web forum, appears to have been seized by its website host, Network Solutions, LLC.
The
forum disappeared Friday. WhoIs, a web service that tracks site
ownership, reported the Stormfront domain's status as "under hold."
According
to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, a nonprofit
that coordinates name spaces on the Internet, a hold status is an
uncommon status that indicates a site is under legal dispute or about to
be deleted.
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.
