Web hosting service GoDaddy has booted gun site Arfcom from its servers.
“ARFCOM IS DOWN. We’ve been booted from GoDaddy and are looking for an alternative solution,” the site announced in a Facebook post.
The post encourages users to bookmark a backup URL, noting that their main URL will soon be offline.
The news comes as Big Tech companies have created controversy over their banning of the social media network Parler, which bills itself as a platform more open to free speech.
Many conservatives began flocking to Parler after President Trump was banned from both Facebook and Twitter, which cited concerns over him inciting violence following last week’s siege of the U.S. Capitol by a crowd of his supporters.
Apple and Google removed the platform from their app stores. Amazon soon followed the trend by kicking Parler off its cloud-based server, with all three companies citing Parler’s lack of violent content moderation as the reason for the move.
Parler went offline late Sunday as the company searches for an alternative to host its platform.
GoDaddy, a popular domain registration company, announced in 2018 that the company was moving the bulk of its infrastructure to Amazon Web Services. The multiyear deal makes the service a partner in selling some of GoDaddy’s products.
Arfcom, which bills itself as “the world’s largest online firearm community,” will now be forced into similar circumstances as Parler.
Arfcom did not immediately responded to a Washington Examiner request for comment.
“In response to content complaints on the ar15.com website, our team investigated and discovered content on the site that both promotes and encourages violence. As a result, we informed the site yesterday that they have 24 hours to move the domain to another registrar, as they have violated our terms of service,” GoDaddy told the Washington Examiner.
