Parler’s website is back online with a brief message to ‘lovers and haters’ – By Brian Fung (CNN Business) / January 18 2021
Washington (CNN Busness) Parler’s website suddenly reappeared online Sunday afternoon with a message from its CEO, John Matze: “Hello world, is this thing on?”
The message, dated January 16, implies that the social network popular with members of the far right has found a new online hosting platform, after Parler was booted from Amazon Web Services on January 10 in the wake of the Capitol siege.
Parler’s domain is now registered with Epik, according to a WHOIS search. Epik is a company that sells domain names and is also the domain registrar for Gab, an alternative social network often used by members of the far-right. It remains unclear who is Parler’s web host; Parler didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
Robert Davis, a spokesman for Epik, said the company does not provide Parler’s web hosting.
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