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Wow - a lot of unsavory folks on that platform. Dump includes

All domain purchases All domain transfers in/out All whois history All DNS changes All email forwards, catch-alls, etc Payment history (no credit card data) Account credentials Over 500,000 private keys

Not a good look for these "privacy" focused players.

I use AWS Route53 and Google for domain registration. Despite being "invaders" of privacy supposedly, so far they've done a pretty good job keeping my data from leaking - nothing too interesting anyways but.

One worry would be employers or others taking lists like this and doing some screening of candidates etc through it.

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To be fair, if I found that a job applicant was also actively participating in a Neo-Nazi website, I would absolutely never hire them, whether they intended for me to know about it or not. If I had already hired them and found out, they would unemployed quite quickly.

I would never expose the people who work for me to that kind of toxicity, nor would I expose myself and my organization to that kind of liability.

I am all for freedom of speech, insofar that people don't get charged with crimes for participating in protected of speech, but I have absolutely no reason at all to tolerate those people, and feel as though I have a moral obligation to keep them away from the people I care about.

What on earth are you talking about? Epik is not a 'neo-nazi' website (whatever you think a 'neo-nazi' is), it's a domain registrar. So please spare us your oh so righteous indignation.

Their business model is to specifically cater towards neo nazis.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/gy4yg9/the-far-right-has-fou...

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/01/11/problem-epik-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epik_(company)

> Epik is known for providing services to websites with far-right content, such as the social network Gab, video hosting service BitChute, conspiracy theory website InfoWars, and neo-Nazi message board website The Daily Stormer.[1][6][28] It was described in 2019 by Vice as "a safehaven for the extreme right" and in 2021 by The Seattle Times as "a home for far-right websites" because of its willingness to host far-right websites that have been denied service by other Internet service providers.[1][29][30] In 2021, The Daily Telegraph wrote that Epik was "a safe harbour for websites said to be enabling the spread far-right extremism and carrying Neo-Nazi content";[25] the same year, Fortune called the company the "right wing’s best friend online".[9] NPR reported in February 2021 that "when websites flooded with hate speech or harmful disinformation become too radioactive for the Internet, the sites often turn to [Epik] for a lifeline."[13]

I've never heard of the controversy behind Epik before this, and looking at their website doesn't give any indication whatsoever that they're politically aligned in any particular direction. I almost transferred some domains to this registrar a while back, but man did I dodge a bullet.

If this was leaked for political reasons, the person who did it should have known that thousands of innocent people would be affected. I wonder how many bystanders are going to lose their jobs or be cancelled because they just happened to come across epik.com when shopping around for a domain registrar?

If you're the type of person who has strong political opinions and you happen to be a recruiter at a company, wouldn't you be tempted to do a quick CTRL+F through this dump for the names on the resumes you're screening? No one will know, and even if you know not everyone on that list is a nazi, it's better to be safe than sorry right?

Branded for life and informally blacklisted just for buying a domain name. That sucks.

>Branded for life and informally blacklisted just for buying a domain name.

Only for the "bad guys"™

As someone with quite strong political opinions on this topic I can assure you that disliking Rob Monster and many of the people he does business with doesn't automatically extend to all customers of Epik.

cant wait to get bricked over the head by some thug for using the wrong registrar

Epik literally runs neo-nazi websites. They court them when they get booted from other platforms.

There's a german saying that goes "There are 10 people at the table with a Nazi. There are 11 Nazis at the table".

If you do business with Epik, a service owned and operated by Rob Monster, who is also a virulent Gab user and proud Neo Nazi and Antisemite, then you earn some guilt by association.

And nobody chooses Epik for the price or the service. They choose Epik because their website would be terminated from most other mainstream providers for violating rules against violence and hate speech.

It is a domain registrar that makes a point of specifically, with full knowledge, and proudly hosting neo-nazi sites.

They are not neutral in this. They are specifically creating a service for neo-nazis and the far right.

If there is one domain registrar that nearly all neo-nazi websites use because no one else will do business with them, and the owner of said registrar also is a self-proclaimed neo-nazi - it seems pretty reasonable to claim epik primarily exists to further neo-nazi causes.

A lot of people used epik because they seo'ed for lower transfer fees for a while and have been around for longer then it was known that they protect neo-nazis who register domains with them.

Not all of them knew about the parler and 8chan controversies, and even if they left when this all came out, it wouldn't stop them from appearing in this list, since it includes historical data.

So maybe leave judgements and punishments to the courts, and stop using your company to be a vigilant.

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