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Parler back on Amazon likely without their consent

9 points by nullrouten ↗ HN
host:~ $ whois parler.com | grep 'Name Server'

   Name Server: NS3.EPIK.COM
   Name Server: NS4.EPIK.COM
host:~ $ dig +short NS3.EPIK.COM

52.55.168.70

host:~ $ whois 52.55.168.70 | grep Organization

Organization: Amazon Technologies Inc. (AT-88-Z)

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wmf
Now we're getting into transitive deplatforming. If Parler uses Epik and Epik uses AWS, will AWS drop Epik?
nullrouten
There’s likely collateral damage (a registrar/dns has many customers)...and Amazon may or may not act on this particular case.
ev1
Epik is an interesting company. Their previous CTO (from an acquisition, BitMitigate, which is/was a sad excuse of a nginx reverse proxy on Voxility), is a script kiddie that DDoSed Trump and the Trump campaign site with some message similar to (paraphrased) "you should buy ddos protection from me" open in a notepad instance.