AR15.com, The World's Largest Gun Forum, Knocked Offline After Being 'Booted' From GoDaddy

Chris Menahan
InformationLiberation
Jan. 11, 2021

The world's largest gun forum was knocked offline on Monday after reportedly being "booted" from the domain registrar GoDaddy.

"ARFCOM Is Down," AR15.com's official Twitter account said on Monday afternoon. "We've been booted from GoDaddy and are looking for an alternative solution."

"The site will return at https://www.ar15-backup.com," they said. "Standby for more information."

Their new domain is currently online.

ARFCOM Is Down. We've been booted from GoDaddy and are looking for an alternative solution.

The site will return athttps://www.ar15-backup.com

Standby for more information
— AR15.COM (@AR15COM) January 11, 2021

Some folks are still connecting to our servers from our normal https://t.co/er0jKUFnGd domain, but that's going to end eventually. DNS will eventually stop looking up the correct location of the server.

Bookmark our backup URL - https://t.co/ca7eLJyfSk 👈
— AR15.COM (@AR15COM) January 11, 2021

GoDaddy has yet to provide a statement on the incident.

Judging by the timing, one would assume it's related to the protests in Washington DC last week.

UPDATE:

https://t.co/6hr3gqmHAg Backup Site Live, Switching to First Amendment Friendly Site Registrar - Statement Attached. https://t.co/qf75WwH7bZ 👈 pic.twitter.com/XuGFL9nReM
— AR15.COM (@AR15COM) January 12, 2021

UPDATE II: They got back online after switching their domain registrar to Epik.

The https://t.co/ItjJ2f8dic domain is back and accessible!

Thanks for all your support!https://t.co/vvAqi16FIN 👈#ARFCOM #AR15.COM
— AR15.COM (@AR15COM) January 13, 2021

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