[External] Re: Parler

Thu Jan 14 03:06:53 UTC 2021

Ah! I admit I haven't been following the latest in drama-land too closely. I was still under the impression they had a 
full hosting deal. Guess it'll be interesting to see where they land.

Matt

On 1/13/21 9:08 PM, Hunter Fuller wrote:
> I see your point, but I am not sure running the authoritative name
> servers for a site meets the popular definition of "hosting" them.
> Epik is currently denying that they are going to host Parler in a
> traditional sense, though they are the registrar for parler.com. since
> a couple of days ago.
> 
> Of course, Amazon could ding Epik for being Parler's registrar, but
> that would truly be a reach, since they aren't Parler's Web host.
> 
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> On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 5:42 PM Matt Corallo <nanog at as397444.net> wrote:
>>
>> In case anyone thought Amazon was being particularly *careful* around their enforcement of Parler's ban...this is from
>> today on parler's new host:
>>
>> $ dig parler.com ns
>> ...
>> parler.com.             300     IN      NS      ns4.epik.com.
>> parler.com.             300     IN      NS      ns3.epik.com.
>> ...
>> ns3.epik.com.           108450  IN      A       52.55.168.70
>>
>> $ whois 52.55.168.70
>> ...
>> OrgName:        Amazon Technologies Inc.
>>
>> and for the curious, ns4.epik.com is hosted by an Epik sub, but from a cursory glance appears to be single-homed to
>> CDN77, which is vaguely surprising to me.
>>
>> Matt
>>
>> On 1/10/21 3:23 AM, William Herrin wrote:
>>> Anybody looking for a new customer opportunity? It seems Parler is in
>>> search of a new service provider. Vendors need only provide all the
>>> proprietary AWS APIs that Parler depends upon to function.
>>>
>>> https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/09/amazon-parler-suspension/
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Bill HErrin
>>>