A leading neo-Nazi website is losing its internet domain host after its publisher posted an article mocking the woman who was killed in a deadly attack at a white nationalist rally in Virginia.GoDaddy tweeted late Sunday night that it had given The Daily Stormer 24 hours to move its domain to another provider because the site has violated the Scottsdale, Ariz.-based company’s terms of service.The site was later registered through another hosting that is itself a client of Toronto-based company Tucows, according to Michael Goldstein, Tucows’ vice-president of sales and marketing. Tucows offers a “contact privacy feature” that conceals websites’ ownership information. Goldstein told the Star that Tucows would strip the third-party hosting company’s access to this service if it did not ban the Daily Stormer — which Goldstein said the company would do.Tucows said in a tweet that it was never the domain host of the Daily Stormer. “We hate Nazis, I guess would be my statement on record,” Goldstein said. “I wish I never read Daily Stormer, which I spent like 20 minutes of my day today scanning articles that say that this woman deserved to die.” “It’s like you die inside, knowing that that much hate exists.”GoDaddy spokesperson Dan Race said their move was prompted by a post on the site about Heather Heyer, who was killed Saturday when a man plowed his car into a group of demonstrators in Charlottesville. The post called her “fat” and “childless” and said “most people are glad she is dead, as she is the definition of uselessness.”Read more:James Alex Fields Jr., man accused of ramming car into Charlottesville protesters, denied bailDonald Trump speaks in Washington about Charlottesville protests“Given their latest article comes on the immediate heels of a violent act, we believe this type of article could incite additional vi ...
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