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Re:Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support by _nickwhite on Monday January 11, 2021 @01:12PM (#25733146)
Something interesting here is that not only the Parler app was pulled... the _entire_ parlor.com domain and website registration is non-existent at the moment. It's like a black hole:

>dig @1.1.1.1 parler.com +short <empty>

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Re:Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support by 6sup6 on Monday January 11, 2021 @01:34PM (#25733625)
Can you offer some hypothesis that explain what happened?
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Re:Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support by _nickwhite on Monday January 11, 2021 @02:08PM (#25734467)
Dreamhost is/was their domain name registrar- and even though Dreamhost didn't host Parler's services, they were taking massive heat on Twitter over it.

So I guess at some point, Dreamhost as a registrar silently deleted them. Now, even if Parler wanted to move somewhere, they would have to regain control of their domain from Dreamhost.

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Re:Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support by shrimpx on Monday January 11, 2021 @01:37PM (#25733725)
They were likely running everything on aws including dns.
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Re:Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support by _nickwhite on Monday January 11, 2021 @02:09PM (#25734495)
They were running all of their websites through AWS, but didn't use AWS as the registrar.
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