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]
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.
Only for the "bad guys"™
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.
They are not neutral in this. They are specifically creating a service for neo-nazis and the far right.