It’s being reported by AR15.COM that Amazon partner Godaddy has just deplatformed them, dumping them from its servers:
ARFCOM Is Down. We've been booted from GoDaddy and are looking for an alternative solution.
The site will return athttps://www.ar15-backup.com
Standby for more information
— AR15.COM (@AR15COM) January 11, 2021
Some people are saying the site is still up, but AR15.COM says it won’t be up for long:
Some folks are still connecting to our servers from our normal https://t.co/er0jKUFnGd domain, but that's going to end eventually. DNS will eventually stop looking up the correct location of the server.
Bookmark our backup URL – https://t.co/ca7eLJyfSk 👈
— AR15.COM (@AR15COM) January 11, 2021
From what I can tell Godaddy hasn’t explained why they did this or even announced that they did.
I’m not familiar with AR15.COM, but it is said on twitter to be one of the biggest gun forums out there. But if all this is true and there isn’t a legitimate reason for the cancelation (not paying bills, etc), then it looks like the deplatforming is just beginning.