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16 years ago (2009)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founder</th><td class="infobox-data agent"><a href="/wiki/Rob_Monster" title="Rob Monster">Rob Monster</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Headquarters</th><td class="infobox-data adr"><div class="ib-company-locality locality"><a href="/wiki/Sheridan,_Wyoming" title="Sheridan, Wyoming">Sheridan, Wyoming</a></div>, <div class="ib-company-country country-name">U.S.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Area served</div></th><td class="infobox-data">Worldwide</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Key people</div></th><td class="infobox-data agent"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li>Brian Royce (CEO, 2022–)</li><li>Robert Monster (<a href="/wiki/Chief_executive_officer" title="Chief executive officer">CEO</a>, 2009–2022)</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Services</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Domain_name_registrar" title="Domain name registrar">Domain name registration</a>, <a href="/wiki/Web_hosting_service" title="Web hosting service">web hosting</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Number of employees</div></th><td class="infobox-data">80 (2021)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Parent_company" class="mw-redirect" title="Parent company">Parent</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Registered_Agents_Inc." title="Registered Agents Inc.">Registered Agents Inc.</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Subsidiary" title="Subsidiary">Subsidiaries</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Epik Holdings, Inc.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.epik.com">www.epik.com</a> <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q63474304#P856" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table> Epik is an American <a href="/wiki/Domain_name_registrar" title="Domain name registrar">domain registrar</a> and web hosting company. The company was known for providing services to <a href="/wiki/Alt-tech" title="Alt-tech">alt-tech</a> websites that host <a href="/wiki/Far-right_politics" title="Far-right politics">far-right</a>, <a href="/wiki/Neo-Nazism" title="Neo-Nazism">neo-Nazi</a>, and other <a href="/wiki/Extremism" title="Extremism">extremist</a> materials, until its acquisition by Registered Agents Inc. in 2023 and subsequent <a href="/wiki/ICANN" title="ICANN">ICANN</a> accreditation.<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a><a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a><a href="#cite_note-:18-3">[3]</a>It has been described as a "safe haven for the extreme right" because of its willingness to provide services to far-right websites that have been denied service by other <a href="/wiki/Internet_service_provider" title="Internet service provider">Internet service providers</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Makuch-4">[4]</a><a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a> Some of Epik's notable former clients include social network <a href="/wiki/Gab_(social_network)" title="Gab (social network)">Gab</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Imageboard" title="Imageboard">imageboard</a> website <a href="/wiki/8chan" title="8chan">8chan</a>.<a href="#cite_note-clients-list-11">[11]</a> In 2021, the <a href="/wiki/Parler" title="Parler">Parler</a> social network moved its domain registration to Epik when it was denied hosting and other web services after it was used to help plan the <a href="/wiki/2021_storming_of_the_United_States_Capitol" class="mw-redirect" title="2021 storming of the United States Capitol">2021 storming of the U.S. Capitol</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:2-12">[12]</a> Epik has also provided hosting and registrar services to <a href="/wiki/R/The_Donald" title="R/The Donald">Patriots.win</a>, formerly TheDonald.win, an independent far-right forum that has served as the successor for the <a href="/wiki/R/The_Donald" title="R/The Donald">r/The_Donald</a> <a href="/wiki/Subreddit" class="mw-redirect" title="Subreddit">subreddit</a> that was banned in June 2020.<a href="#cite_note-FT_coverage2-13">[13]</a><a href="#cite_note-:122-14">[14]</a><a href="#cite_note-:22-15">[15]</a> In September and October 2021, hackers identifying themselves as a part of <a href="/wiki/Anonymous_(hacker_group)" title="Anonymous (hacker group)">Anonymous</a> released several caches of data obtained from Epik in a <a href="/wiki/2021_Epik_data_breach" title="2021 Epik data breach">large-scale data breach</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:3-16">[16]</a><a href="#cite_note-:8-17">[17]</a><a href="#cite_note-18">[18]</a> In 2023, Epik was acquired by Registered Agents Inc., a company founded by Dan Keen.<a href="#cite_note-:9-19">[19]</a><a href="#cite_note-:13-20">[20]</a> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Epik&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History">edit</a>]</div> Epik was founded in <a href="/wiki/Washington_(state)" title="Washington (state)">Washington</a> in 2009 by Rob Monster, who served as the company's <a href="/wiki/Chief_executive_officer" title="Chief executive officer">chief executive officer</a> until 2022.<a href="#cite_note-HelpsFringe-5">[5]</a>Epik is primarily known for its domain name registration services, and, until its ownership change in 2022, described itself as the "<a href="/wiki/Banking_in_Switzerland" title="Banking in Switzerland">Swiss bank</a> of the domain industry".<a href="#cite_note-:11-21">[21]</a> As of January 2022<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Epik&action=edit">[update]</a>, Epik was the 22nd largest domain registrar in the United States and 47th largest globally, as measured by the number of domains registered through the company.<a href="#cite_note-22">[22]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Expansion_of_services">Expansion of services</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Epik&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Expansion of services">edit</a>]</div> In the late 2010s, following a series of acquisitions, Epik also began providing an increasing variety of other web services including web hosting, <a href="/wiki/Content_delivery_network" title="Content delivery network">content delivery network</a> (CDN) services, and <a href="/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack" title="Denial-of-service attack">DDoS protection</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:12-23">[23]</a><a href="#cite_note-24">[24]</a> Until 2018, Epik primarily focused on <a href="/wiki/Domain_name_speculation" title="Domain name speculation">domain trading</a> and mostly stayed out of the public spotlight. In 2018, the company came to public attention when they decided to provide services to Gab.<a href="#cite_note-Allyn-NPR-25">[25]</a><a href="#cite_note-:43-26">[26]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Leadership_changes_and_new_ownership">Leadership changes and new ownership</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Epik&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Leadership changes and new ownership">edit</a>]</div> In September 2022, Monster stepped down as CEO and installed Brian Royce as his successor.<a href="#cite_note-27">[27]</a><a href="#cite_note-28">[28]</a> After repaying debts to avoid litigation, and amid allegations of financial misconduct by Monster, on June 8, 2023, Epik.com and its associated domain registrar platform were sold to Epik LLC.<a href="#cite_note-29">[29]</a><a href="#cite_note-:9-19">[19]</a> Epik LLC is owned by Registered Agents Inc., a <a href="/wiki/Registered_agent" title="Registered agent">registered agent</a> company <a href="/wiki/Beneficial_ownership" title="Beneficial ownership">beneficially owned</a> by <a href="/wiki/Dan_Keen" class="mw-redirect" title="Dan Keen">Dan Keen</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:9-19">[19]</a> Registered agents act as official points of contact for companies, allowing business owners to maintain privacy.<a href="#cite_note-:9-19">[19]</a><a href="#cite_note-:13-20">[20]</a><a href="#cite_note-30">[30]</a><a href="#cite_note-31">[31]</a> The sale was finalized in January 2024 after ICANN approved the transfer.<a href="#cite_note-32">[32]</a> Epik made changes to its terms of service during the ICANN review that saw the company remove violators and “problematic clients” from its platform.<a href="#cite_note-:18-3">[3]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Governance">Governance</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Epik&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Governance">edit</a>]</div> Epik board members have included Braden Pollock and Tal Moore.<a href="#cite_note-HuffPost-20181212-33">[33]</a><a href="#cite_note-:4-34">[34]</a>Rob Davis serves as senior vice president for strategy and communications.<a href="#cite_note-:32-35">[35]</a> Moore left the board in December 2018, over the company's choice to host Gab.<a href="#cite_note-HuffPost-20181212-33">[33]</a> Peterson left the company in 2019, and said that he left shortly after Monster began a company staff meeting by asking employees to watch the video of the Christchurch mosque shootings, which he said would prove to them that the attack had been faked.<a href="#cite_note-:32-35">[35]</a> Pollock had also resigned by Summer 2020, citing ideological differences.<a href="#cite_note-:4-34">[34]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Acquisitions">Acquisitions</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Epik&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Acquisitions">edit</a>]</div> In February 2019, it was announced that Epik had acquired BitMitigate, an American <a href="/wiki/Computer_security" title="Computer security">cybersecurity</a> company based in <a href="/wiki/Vancouver,_Washington" title="Vancouver, Washington">Vancouver</a>, Washington. BitMitigate protects websites against potential threats including <a href="/wiki/Denial_of_Service_attack" class="mw-redirect" title="Denial of Service attack">distributed denial-of-service</a> (DDoS) attacks. The company continues to operate as a division of Epik, and BitMitigate's founder <a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Lim_(entrepreneur)" title="Nicholas Lim (entrepreneur)">Nicholas Lim</a> briefly served as Epik's <a href="/wiki/Chief_technology_officer" title="Chief technology officer">chief technology officer</a>.<a href="#cite_note-BuysVancouver-8">[8]</a> Epik acquired web hosting company Sibyl Systems Ltd. in 2019.<a href="#cite_note-36">[36]</a><a href="#cite_note-37">[37]</a><a href="#cite_note-38">[38]</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTRS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTRS">better source needed</a>] Sibyl was founded in 2018, and according to the <a href="/wiki/Southern_Poverty_Law_Center" title="Southern Poverty Law Center">Southern Poverty Law Center</a> (SPLC) was possibly based in Norway or in England.<a href="#cite_note-splc_2019-01-24-39">[39]</a><a href="#cite_note-:26-40">[40]</a> Sibyl was known for providing hosting services to Gab, following its termination by its previous web host due to the service's use by the perpetrator of the <a href="/wiki/Pittsburgh_synagogue_shooting" title="Pittsburgh synagogue shooting">Pittsburgh synagogue shooting</a>. In February 2019, the SPLC as a "shadowy operation with little transparency... a murky history of ownership and no fixed base of operations".<a href="#cite_note-:26-40">[40]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Termination_of_services">Termination of services</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Epik&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Termination of services">edit</a>]</div> When Epik began providing services to 8chan in August 2019, after the imageboard was taken offline by its host when it was discovered that the perpetrator of the <a href="/wiki/2019_El_Paso_shooting" class="mw-redirect" title="2019 El Paso shooting">2019 El Paso shooting</a> allegedly posted his manifesto on the site, several service providers stopped providing services to Epik. In August 2019, web services company Voxility banned Epik after determining it was hosting 8chan.<a href="#cite_note-:4u-41">[41]</a> That same week, <a href="/wiki/Amazon_(company)" title="Amazon (company)">Amazon</a> said it was "trying to find out whether any Amazon Web Services infrastructure is indirectly supporting 8chan through Epik," as 8chan's content violated Amazon's Acceptable Use Policy.<a href="#cite_note-:14-42">[42]</a> Epik reported it would no longer provide web hosting services for 8chan due to "the concern of inadequate enforcement and the elevated possibility of violent radicalization on the platform."<a href="#cite_note-:14-42">[42]</a> On August 9, cloud hosting provider <a href="/wiki/Linode" title="Linode">Linode</a> informed Epik they would be terminating services to the company.<a href="#cite_note-:14-42">[42]</a> In October 2020, financial services provider <a href="/wiki/PayPal" title="PayPal">PayPal</a> terminated service for Epik due to financial risk concerns.<a href="#cite_note-:1-43">[43]</a> The company didn't define the risks, but <a href="/wiki/Mashable" title="Mashable">Mashable</a> alleged that PayPal's concerns were related to Epic's Masterbucks <a href="/wiki/Alternative_currency" class="mw-redirect" title="Alternative currency">alternative currency</a>, and that PayPal terminated service because Epik allegedly had not taken the proper legal steps to offer it.<a href="#cite_note-:1-43">[43]</a> Mashable also reported that the termination was partly due to concerns by PayPal that the site was encouraging <a href="/wiki/Tax_evasion" title="Tax evasion">tax evasion</a> by advertising the "tax advantages" of using Masterbucks.<a href="#cite_note-:1-43">[43]</a><a href="#cite_note-:0-44">[44]</a> Epik subsequently published what <a href="/wiki/Mashable" title="Mashable">Mashable</a> described as "a series of unhinged open letters" targeting "PayPal, <a href="/wiki/Hunter_Biden" title="Hunter Biden">Hunter Biden</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bloomberg_News" title="Bloomberg News">Bloomberg News</a>, and several <a href="/wiki/Avengers_(comics)" title="Avengers (comics)">Avengers</a>" and accusing PayPal of terminating service because they were biased against conservatives.<a href="#cite_note-:0-44">[44]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Data_breach">Data breach</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Epik&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Data breach">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/2021_Epik_data_breach" title="2021 Epik data breach">2021 Epik data breach</a></div> On September 13, 2021, hackers identifying as part of the <a href="/wiki/Anonymous_(hacker_group)" title="Anonymous (hacker group)">Anonymous</a> <a href="/wiki/Hacktivism" title="Hacktivism">hacktivist</a> group announced they had obtained access to what they called "a decade's worth" of personal data, including all domains ever registered or hosting with the company, account credentials (including approximately 15 million email addresses scraped from <a href="/wiki/WHOIS" title="WHOIS">WHOIS</a> records),<a href="#cite_note-:10-45">[45]</a> employee emails and unidentified <a href="/wiki/Public-key_cryptography" title="Public-key cryptography">private keys</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:3-16">[16]</a><a href="#cite_note-46">[46]</a> The 180 <a href="/wiki/Gigabyte" title="Gigabyte">gigabytes</a> of data was curated by the <a href="/wiki/Distributed_Denial_of_Secrets" title="Distributed Denial of Secrets">Distributed Denial of Secrets</a> group,<a href="#cite_note-:7-47">[47]</a> and included 15 million unique email addresses (of customers and non-customers), scraped from WHOIS records.<a href="#cite_note-:3-16">[16]</a><a href="#cite_note-:6-48">[48]</a><a href="#cite_note-:5-49">[49]</a>Journalists and security researchers subsequently confirmed the veracity of the hack and the types of data that had been exposed.<a href="#cite_note-:6-48">[48]</a><a href="#cite_note-:8-17">[17]</a><a href="#cite_note-:11-21">[21]</a> Epik initially denied knowledge of the breach (one engineer described them as being “fully compromised end-to-end.. maybe the worst I've ever seen in my 20-year career" to <a href="/wiki/The_Daily_Dot" title="The Daily Dot">The Daily Dot</a>),<a href="#cite_note-:5-49">[49]</a><a href="#cite_note-50">[50]</a> leading to the attackers vandalizing Epik’s support website.<a href="#cite_note-:8-17">[17]</a> On September 15, the company sent an email notifying customers of an incident,<a href="#cite_note-:7-47">[47]</a> which was confirmed as a hack by Rob Monster via a public video conference the next day, which <a href="/wiki/Le_Monde" title="Le Monde">Le Monde</a> characterized as "possibly one of the strangest responses to a computer security incident in history".<a href="#cite_note-51">[51]</a><a href="#cite_note-:11-21">[21]</a> The company confirmed the breach the following day, and on the 19th, began informing customers.<a href="#cite_note-:10-45">[45]</a> Anonymous would release additional data on September 29 and October 4, 2021, including 300 gigabytes of bootable <a href="/wiki/Disk_image" title="Disk image">disk images</a> and <a href="/wiki/API_key" title="API key">API keys</a> for third-party services used by Epik, and disk images and data belonging to the <a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_of_Texas" title="Republican Party of Texas">Republican Party of Texas</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:42-52">[52]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Services_to_far-right_websites">Services to far-right websites</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Epik&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Services to far-right websites">edit</a>]</div> Epik is known for providing services to websites with far-right content, such as the social network <a href="/wiki/Gab_(social_network)" title="Gab (social network)">Gab</a>, video hosting service <a href="/wiki/BitChute" title="BitChute">BitChute</a>, and conspiracy theory website <a href="/wiki/InfoWars" class="mw-redirect" title="InfoWars">InfoWars</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Makuch-4">[4]</a><a href="#cite_note-Hayden-9">[9]</a><a href="#cite_note-CriesFoul-53">[53]</a> It was described in 2019 by <a href="/wiki/Vice_(magazine)" title="Vice (magazine)">Vice</a> as "a safehaven for the extreme right" and in 2021 by <a href="/wiki/The_Seattle_Times" title="The Seattle Times">The Seattle Times</a> as "a home for far-right websites" because of its willingness to host far-right websites that have been denied service by other <a href="/wiki/Internet_service_provider" title="Internet service provider">Internet service providers</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Makuch-4">[4]</a><a href="#cite_note-54">[54]</a><a href="#cite_note-55">[55]</a> In 2021, <a href="/wiki/The_Daily_Telegraph" title="The Daily Telegraph">The Daily Telegraph</a> wrote that Epik was "a safe harbour for websites said to be enabling the spread far-right extremism and carrying Neo-Nazi content";<a href="#cite_note-:4-34">[34]</a> the same year, Fortune called the company the "right wing's best friend online".<a href="#cite_note-:2-12">[12]</a> <a href="/wiki/NPR" title="NPR">NPR</a> reported in February 2021 that "when websites flooded with hate speech or harmful disinformation become too radioactive for the Internet, the sites often turn to [Epik] for a lifeline."<a href="#cite_note-Allyn-NPR-25">[25]</a> Epik has provided services for websites, platforms, and groups including <a href="/wiki/Parler" title="Parler">Parler</a>, <a href="/wiki/8chan" title="8chan">8chan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gab_(social_network)" title="Gab (social network)">Gab</a>, <a href="/wiki/BitChute" title="BitChute">BitChute</a>, <a href="/wiki/Patriots.win" class="mw-redirect" title="Patriots.win">Patriots.win</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Daily_Stormer" title="The Daily Stormer">The Daily Stormer</a>, InfoWars, <a href="/wiki/One_America_News_Network" title="One America News Network">One America News Network</a>, <a href="/wiki/AR15.com" title="AR15.com">AR15.com</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kiwi_Farms" title="Kiwi Farms">Kiwi Farms</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Proud_Boys" title="Proud Boys">Proud Boys</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Oath_Keepers" title="Oath Keepers">Oath Keepers</a>.<a href="#cite_note-clients-list-11">[11]</a> Bobby Allyn writing for NPR has described the websites Epik services: "Spend a few minutes on these sites, <a href="/wiki/Attempts_to_overturn_the_2020_United_States_presidential_election" title="Attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election">conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vaccine_hesitancy" title="Vaccine hesitancy">vaccines</a> and mass shootings are not hard to find, not to mention a steady stream of bigoted content about Jews, women and people of color."<a href="#cite_note-Allyn-NPR-25">[25]</a> Epik describes itself as a protector of <a href="/wiki/Freedom_of_speech" title="Freedom of speech">free speech</a>, and its past CEO Rob Monster defended its decisions to host extremist content as being a part of Epik's commitment to "welcome all views, without bias or preference".<a href="#cite_note-Hayden-9">[9]</a><a href="#cite_note-Makuch-4">[4]</a> Monster has said he is repudiating "<a href="/wiki/Cancel_culture" title="Cancel culture">cancel culture</a>" and <a href="/wiki/Big_Tech" title="Big Tech">Big Tech</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Allyn-NPR-25">[25]</a> In May 2019, the <a href="/wiki/Counter_Extremism_Project" title="Counter Extremism Project">Counter Extremism Project</a>'s Joshua Fisher-Birch criticized Epik for this stance, saying that, "while Epik portrays this as a noble exercise in anti-censorship, they're making a business decision to continue to amplify voices calling for violence."<a href="#cite_note-Makuch-4">[4]</a> In February 2021, Michael Edison Hayden of the SPLC said that although hate speech can be found throughout the internet, including on mainstream social networks like Facebook and Twitter, "The difference is there are people with terroristic ambitions plotting out in the open, producing propaganda that they seek to use to kind of encourage violence. And those are the kind of websites Rob Monster is willing to pick up."<a href="#cite_note-Allyn-NPR-25">[25]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Parler">Parler</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Epik&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Parler">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Parler" title="Parler">Parler</a></div> In January 2021, the <a href="/wiki/Alt-tech" title="Alt-tech">alt-tech</a> social network <a href="/wiki/Parler" title="Parler">Parler</a> transferred its domain name registration to Epik, following the termination of its hosting and support services by other providers on account of it being "overrun" with <a href="/wiki/Death_threats" class="mw-redirect" title="Death threats">death threats</a> and celebrations of violence.<a href="#cite_note-68">[68]</a><a href="#cite_note-69">[69]</a> According to <a href="/wiki/Fortune_(magazine)" title="Fortune (magazine)">Fortune</a>, Epik provided Parler with advice on running the service, including adding moderators, improving systems to detect harmful posts, and changing their terms of service.<a href="#cite_note-:2-12">[12]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="8chan">8chan</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Epik&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: 8chan">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/8chan" title="8chan">8chan</a></div> On August 5, 2019, Epik competitor <a href="/wiki/Cloudflare" title="Cloudflare">Cloudflare</a> announced that in the wake of the <a href="/wiki/2019_El_Paso_shooting" class="mw-redirect" title="2019 El Paso shooting">2019 El Paso shooting</a> they would no longer be providing services to <a href="/wiki/8chan" title="8chan">8chan</a>, a far-right <a href="/wiki/Imageboard" title="Imageboard">imageboard</a> known as a location for hateful content and <a href="/wiki/Child_pornography" title="Child pornography">child sexual abuse material</a>,<a href="#cite_note-70">[70]</a><a href="#cite_note-71">[71]</a> which the perpetrator of the shooting had allegedly used immediately prior to the attack to post a manifesto justifying his actions.<a href="#cite_note-72">[72]</a> The same day that 8chan was removed from Cloudflare, Epik began providing hosting services, and Monster released a statement explaining their decision. Later that day, Epik's primary hardware and connectivity provider Voxility banned Epik from renting their server space.<a href="#cite_note-:4u-41">[41]</a> Voxility's vice president of business development stated, "We have made the connection that at least two or three of the latest mass shootings in the U.S. were connected with [Epik and BitMitigate]. At some point, somebody needed to make the decision on where the limit is between what is illegal and what is freedom of speech and today it had to be us."<a href="#cite_note-73">[73]</a> The Voxility ban took 8chan offline, along with The Daily Stormer and other Epik customers. On August 6, Epik reversed course and announced that they would not provide hosting services to 8chan; on August 7, <a href="/wiki/Ars_Technica" title="Ars Technica">Ars Technica</a> noted that Epik had only ceased hosting their content and was still providing 8chan with <a href="/wiki/Domain_Name_System" title="Domain Name System">DNS</a> services.<a href="#cite_note-74">[74]</a><a href="#cite_note-Salter-ArsTechnica-56">[56]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Gab">Gab</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Epik&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Gab">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Gab_(social_network)" title="Gab (social network)">Gab (social network)</a></div> Epik received media attention in early November 2018 for registering <a href="/wiki/Gab_(social_network)" title="Gab (social network)">Gab</a>, an American alt-tech social networking service known for its far-right userbase, after it was ousted by <a href="/wiki/GoDaddy" title="GoDaddy">GoDaddy</a> for allowing "content on the site that both promotes and encourages violence against people". This came shortly after it was revealed that the perpetrator of the <a href="/wiki/Pittsburgh_synagogue_shooting" title="Pittsburgh synagogue shooting">Pittsburgh synagogue shooting</a> had used the service to post "<a href="/wiki/Hate_speech" title="Hate speech">hateful content</a>".<a href="#cite_note-HelpsFringe-5">[5]</a><a href="#cite_note-nyt_2016-11-30-57">[57]</a><a href="#cite_note-verge-75">[75]</a><a href="#cite_note-NPR_2017-05-21-76">[76]</a> Tal Moore, a member of Epik's board, resigned in December 2018 over the company's involvement with Gab.<a href="#cite_note-Schulberg-6">[6]</a> On November 7, 2018, <a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania_Attorney_General" title="Pennsylvania Attorney General">Pennsylvania Attorney General</a> <a href="/wiki/Josh_Shapiro" title="Josh Shapiro">Josh Shapiro</a> sent a <a href="/wiki/Subpoena" title="Subpoena">subpoena</a> to Epik requesting "any and all documents which are related in any way to Gab" after Gab registered its domains onto Epik.<a href="#cite_note-Blake-77">[77]</a><a href="#cite_note-CriesFoul-53">[53]</a> Gab posted screenshots of the subpoena letter in a <a href="/wiki/Twitter" title="Twitter">tweet</a> on the day the subpoena was sent, despite being asked to keep the letter confidential.<a href="#cite_note-Blake-77">[77]</a><a href="#cite_note-CriesFoul-53">[53]</a> The tweet was deleted hours later.<a href="#cite_note-Blake-77">[77]</a><a href="#cite_note-CriesFoul-53">[53]</a> In an email statement to Ars Technica, Monster stated that "the news of the subpoena was not intended for public consumption" and that "we are cooperating with their inquiry".<a href="#cite_note-CriesFoul-53">[53]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Patriots.win">Patriots.win</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Epik&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Patriots.win">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/R/The_Donald#Patriots.win" title="R/The Donald">r/The_Donald § Patriots.win</a></div> Epik provides hosting to Patriots.win, previously known as TheDonald.win, the independent far-right web forum that was created as a successor to the <a href="/wiki/R/The_Donald" title="R/The Donald">r/The_Donald</a> subreddit banned by Reddit in June 2020.<a href="#cite_note-78">[78]</a><a href="#cite_note-79">[79]</a><a href="#cite_note-FT_coverage2-13">[13]</a> The website has been labeled "a magnet for extreme discourse" by the <a href="/wiki/Financial_Times" title="Financial Times">Financial Times</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FT_coverage2-13">[13]</a> It has been likened to other clients of Epik's, <a href="/wiki/Gab_(social_network)" title="Gab (social network)">Gab</a> and <a href="/wiki/8chan" title="8chan">8chan</a>, as those sites were also created to bypass hate speech policies on more mainstream sites.<a href="#cite_note-Axios-80">[80]</a> According to a January 16, 2021 report from the <a href="/wiki/The_Wall_Street_Journal" title="The Wall Street Journal">Wall Street Journal</a>, Epik had threatened to take TheDonald.win offline over the forum failing to remove white supremacist, racist, and violent content. The Journal also reported that Jody Williams, TheDonald.win's owner, had received multiple requests from the <a href="/wiki/FBI" class="mw-redirect" title="FBI">FBI</a> for user information due to threatening posts. Williams had struggled to moderate the forum's racist, antisemitic, and violent posts over the prior months, and some of TheDonald.win's volunteer moderators had responded by thwarting Williams's efforts to take down the violent and objectionable content on the forum. Williams and his family had also received daily <a href="/wiki/Death_threat" title="Death threat">death threats</a> from the users he banned from the forum.<a href="#cite_note-:122-14">[14]</a> On January 20, 2021, due to an internal power struggle over the TheDonald.win domain between the moderators and Williams, a new forum called Patriots.win was created and TheDonald.win was shut down by Williams on January 21.<a href="#cite_note-:22-15">[15]</a><a href="#cite_note-81">[81]</a> As of January 21, 2021<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Epik&action=edit">[update]</a>, Epik was providing services to Patriots.win.<a href="#cite_note-:22-15">[15]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Daily_Stormer">The Daily Stormer</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Epik&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: The Daily Stormer">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/The_Daily_Stormer" title="The Daily Stormer">The Daily Stormer</a></div> In August 2019, when Epik discovered newly acquired cybersecurity company BitMitigate was hosting an American <a href="/wiki/Neo-Nazism" title="Neo-Nazism">neo-Nazi</a>, <a href="/wiki/White_supremacy" title="White supremacy">white supremacist</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Holocaust_denial" title="Holocaust denial">Holocaust denial</a> commentary and message board website, The Daily Stormer, Epik stopped providing services.<a href="#cite_note-:15-82">[82]</a><a href="#cite_note-83">[83]</a><a href="#cite_note-:16-84">[84]</a><a href="#cite_note-:17-85">[85]</a> BitMitigate had been hosting the site since GoDaddy and Cloudflare terminated services after mocking the death of Heather Heyer at the 2017 <a href="/wiki/Charlottesville_car_attack" title="Charlottesville car attack">Charlottesville car attack</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:15-82">[82]</a><a href="#cite_note-:16-84">[84]</a><a href="#cite_note-:17-85">[85]</a> In a 2021 interview with NPR, Monster said that Epik's connection to The Daily Stormer was "regrettable", and that "The greatest cost of acquiring BitMitigate was not the amount of cash that we paid to buy the technology, but the entanglement."<a href="#cite_note-Allyn-NPR-25">[25]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Kiwi_Farms">Kiwi Farms</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Epik&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Kiwi Farms">edit</a>]</div> After Cloudflare deplatformed the harassment forum Kiwi Farms in November 2022, Epik began providing the website with domain registration services.<a href="#cite_note-:12-23">[23]</a> In January 2024, the new Epik LLC discontinued its registration agreement with Kiwi Farms, citing complaints about child sexual abuse material, doxing, and other terms of service violations.<a href="#cite_note-86">[86]</a><a href="#cite_note-:9-19">[19]</a> Epik claimed on Twitter that it had suspended services to the website after receiving a United States court order, and alleged that the website had been hosting child sexual abuse material. Kiwi Farms responded by threatening Epik with a <a href="/wiki/Defamation" title="Defamation">defamation</a> lawsuit.<a href="#cite_note-:9-19">[19]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Lack_of_response_to_reports_of_alleged_illegal_activity">Lack of response to reports of alleged illegal activity</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Epik&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Lack of response to reports of alleged illegal activity">edit</a>]</div> <a href="/wiki/Wired_(magazine)" title="Wired (magazine)">Wired</a> wrote in 2018 that Epik had a history of not responding to reports of illegal activity on the websites they registered, which the magazine noted as unusual for domain registrars based in the United States.<a href="#cite_note-MartineauBack-7">[7]</a> Pharmaceutical watchdog website <a href="/wiki/LegitScript" title="LegitScript">LegitScript</a> had reported in 2018 that they alerted Epik to the sale of illegal drugs and <a href="/wiki/Counterfeit_medications" title="Counterfeit medications">counterfeit medications</a> on websites registered by Epik, and that Epik had declined to act upon the information without a court order.<a href="#cite_note-87">[87]</a> Epik's CEO at the time, Rob Monster, responded to LegitScript by pointing out that they do take action on domains when court orders are presented, that they could not reasonably assess all claims of illegality themselves, and that they could not merely take LegitScript's claim that something was illegal as the organization represents corporate pharmacy interests.<a href="#cite_note-88">[88]</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research#Primary,_secondary_and_tertiary_sources" title="Wikipedia:No original research">non-primary source needed</a>] <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Epik&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a>]</div> <style 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