Namecheap revoked the domain of a digital memorial honouring the victims of Israel's targeted murder of journalists in Gaza
  • AernaLingus [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    6 days ago

    The title says “deletes” but it seems like it was “just” a domain name revocation. Still bad, fuck Namecheap, transfer your domains out of there, etc., but there’s nothing in the body of the article that suggests Namecheap was their host and/or held the only copy of that data, so rather than being truly lost it’s thankfully only temporarily unavailable. The organization that runs it (Zionism Observer) describes it as “deplatforming”, which seems accurate.

    https://xcancel.com/receipts_lol/status/2007268477154013420

    https://xcancel.com/receipts_lol/status/2007270640559239307

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    Tweet from Zionism Observer (@receipts_lol) on January 3, 2026 at 1:51 AM UTC:

    The domain name is now safely out of Namecheap’s hands.

    We were forced to use a “free speech” registrar in Estonia, because there is no free speech with @namecheap.

    Tweet at 1:51 AM UTC:

    I hope service will be restored this weekend.

    Tweet at 1:56 AM UTC:

    Many of our websites are broken, because the platform used the genocide dot live domain name all over.

    Right now the memorial to martyred journalists has no images, because Namecheap deplatformed us.

    We will have ALL websites fully functional again in a few days.

    Attached to the tweet is a screenshot of their website with missing/broken images of martyred journalists.

    Tweet at 1:59 AM UTC:

    Note: we were deplatformed on New Years, with no chance to appeal. Then they rushed us.

    I was forced to do the transfer at an airport restaurant (after delaying my flight for a day to work on preventing Namecheap from stealing our domain).

    As of writing this comment, it seems like the database of martyred journalists has already been restored.