Apparently Michael Murphy registered a bunch of domains to try to block people doing this BS, not to support it, and isn't related to the other registrations.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/04/reopen-liberate...
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/04/reopen-liberate...
>Almost all of the hate was coming from liberals, many of them egged on by presuming posts from amateur Twitter sleuths [...] None of the hate was from conservatives angry at him for keeping them from using the domains themselves.
This is consistent with the GOP astroturfing the registrations. The Left's response is obviously organic, if vitriolic.
“Murphy snapped up domains for every still available iteration of reopenAL.com, reopenAK.com, reopenAR.com, and so forth, that hadn’t already been purchased, along with every domain he could for variations like liberateWV.com, liberateWY.com, and liberateWI.com.”
“I realized all these fringe guys are gonna get a hold of these websites, So I went out and bought ‘em up that night,” he told me. The financial burden of thwarting fringe-right groups? “It cost me about four grand,” Murphy said. “I don’t have the money quite frankly. I was just trying to do something good. I’m in massive credit debt to do this.”
“Murphy said that he recognized that his plan isn’t foolproof. While similar domains have already been obtained and still remain up for purchase, he thinks keeping fringe-right wingers from the one’s he purchased has made a difference.”