Parler back on Amazon likely without their consent

9 points by nullrouten 5 years ago | 5 comments

host:~ $ whois parler.com | grep 'Name Server'

   Name Server: NS3.EPIK.COM
   Name Server: NS4.EPIK.COM

host:~ $ dig +short NS3.EPIK.COM

52.55.168.70

host:~ $ whois 52.55.168.70 | grep Organization

Organization: Amazon Technologies Inc. (AT-88-Z)

wmf 5 years ago |

Now we're getting into transitive deplatforming. If Parler uses Epik and Epik uses AWS, will AWS drop Epik?

nullrouten 5 years ago | |

There’s likely collateral damage (a registrar/dns has many customers)...and Amazon may or may not act on this particular case.

ev1 5 years ago | | |

Epik is an interesting company. Their previous CTO (from an acquisition, BitMitigate, which is/was a sad excuse of a nginx reverse proxy on Voxility), is a script kiddie that DDoSed Trump and the Trump campaign site with some message similar to (paraphrased) "you should buy ddos protection from me" open in a notepad instance.

markus_zhang 5 years ago |

Probably a move that satisfies both sides?

lemoncurd 5 years ago |