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This infrastructure ensures the Stormer, the most read hate site in the world, attracts and maintains website readers and protects it from malicious attacks. But in a hectic 24 hours, Andrew Anglin, the website鈥檚 founder, took to Gab.com on Tuesday and told his readers the Stormer was down, and then somehow found an alternate way to keep the site going on the dark web.

The Stormer has lost its main access because it hasn鈥檛 paid for the service that allows audiences to view the content, Rob Monster, founder and CEO of Epik.com, told Hatewatch in an email. Epik.com runs BitMitigate, a content delivery network, or CDN, that ensures a site鈥檚 content becomes visible online.

鈥淎s for Stormer, they actually never paid us a penny,鈥� Monster wrote. 鈥淚n August we discontinued the free plans. Stormer, like any other client, had the opportunity to secure a paid plan. They chose to overlook those opportunities which were proactively presented with ample opportunity.鈥�

Anglin could not be reached for comment. But on Gab.com, he made a desperate plea for support and noted that the Stormer website might not survive. He wrote he鈥檚 seeking $11,000 in donations to fund continued access to BitMitigate.

鈥淲e're searching for a new CDN 鈥� Bitmitigate is no longer willing to put up with the level of attacks we bring on a budget we can afford. Daily Stormer is now under an unprecedented level of pressure and we'll have trouble staying online for the future.鈥�

Anglin apparently was referring to web-based attacks that can make the site inaccessible.

He noted that the Stormer is still accessible through the Tor browser, a free program that routes users鈥� internet traffic through a system of servers as a means of offering increased anonymity. Tor is one of the easiest ways to access the dark web, where many extremist sites have set up shop after they鈥檝e found increasing difficulty in staying on the open web.

Since its inception in July 2013, the Daily Stormer has built its reputation in the white power world by publishing shocking, vulgar displays of misogyny, antisemitism and racism under the guise of comedy. In 2017, the site overtook Stormfront.org as the most-read hate site in the world.

For years, the Stormer was able to stay online, thanks in part to tech companies that seemed indifferent to the extremist content their services enabled. Cloudflare, another company that provides services that help websites stay online, 聽removing the 聽from its list of clients, even as concerns mounted about 聽deployed by those sites鈥� users.

That nonchalance changed in the aftermath of the deadly 2017 鈥淯nite the Right鈥� rally. Anglin used the Stormer to praise the , and as a result, several tech companies, including , blocked Stormer traffic from their platforms. Perhaps most importantly, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince 聽to suspend Stormer鈥檚 access to his company鈥檚 services.

The Daily Stormer quickly , another web infrastructure company that also touts its commitment to absolute 鈥渇ree speech.鈥� Even with access to BitMitigate鈥檚 services, Stormer has struggled with intermittent outages, sometimes lasting days or hours. Anglin鈥檚 Gab account contains updates about the Stormer鈥檚 status, including a March 12 post that noted the site 鈥渋s down for about 90% of the world on the normieweb right now.鈥�

BitMitigate has drawn criticism for its willingness to provide services to the Stormer and to 8chan, a notorious web forum where manifestos related to 聽have been shared.

BitMitigate caters to sites trafficking in extremist content, such as Infowars.com and video-sharing service BitChute. Gab.com, where Anglin made his post announcing the Stormer鈥檚 disappearance from the open web, .

Anglin鈥檚 posts come amid a series of legal judgments against the Daily Stormer and a messy feud among the white nationalist community that has left the site isolated as it struggles to stay online.

In June, a federal judge 聽filed by comedian Dean Obeidallah, whom Anglin accused of being responsible for the bombing of a 2017 concert in Manchester, England. Anglin was ordered to pay $4.1 million in restitution.

More recently, two other 聽in separate lawsuits. The first, filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center on behalf of Tanya Gersh, a Montana real estate agent, resulted in a $14 million judgment.

The second, a $725,000 judgment, was the result of a 鈥渢roll storm,鈥� or harassment campaign 聽against the first African American female student body president of American University.

It is unlikely that Anglin and the Stormer possess the funds to pay off these judgments in full, though the site has in the past 聽such as Bitcoin and Monero.

Brad Griffin聽of the Occidental Dissent blog noted the Stormer鈥檚 extensive use of cryptocurrency as part of an ongoing feud among online white nationalists over the Stormer鈥檚 webmaster Andrew 鈥渨eev鈥� Auernheimer.

Referring to a Twitter account that tracks extremist bitcoin wallets, which , Griffin alleged that the Daily Stormer has been paid in cryptocurrency to stoke feuds among white nationalists in the aftermath of 鈥淯nite the Right.鈥�

John Bambenek runs the Twitter account @neonaziwallets, which tracks the bitcoin transactions of prominent members of the hate movement. He told Hatewatch that Anglin is still receiving cryptocurrency and noted that he received $1,700 by midday Wednesday 鈥� one day after his plea on Gab to raise money.

鈥淒aily Stormer has recently gotten several large transactions but for the time being, besides paying weev, [Anglin] seems to be holding on to the funds in other wallets I鈥檓 tracking,鈥� Bambenek, a researcher for the cybersecurity and intelligence group ThreatStop, told Hatewatch. 鈥淩ight now, [it鈥檚] wait and see for him to decide what he plans to do with his bitcoin while judgments pile up against him.鈥�

Michael Edison Hayden contributed to this report.

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