RE: Parler

[Matthias Merkel <matthias.merkel () staclar com>]

Hi Matt,

That’s not how it would be done. There is an EPP status serverHold (or, if issued by the registrar, clientHold), which 
removes a domain from DNS. This is used after arbitration or court decisions and for cases of abuse. I doubt however 
that Verisign would suspend Parler’s domain.

Matthias Merkel
Staclar, Inc.

From: NANOG <nanog-bounces+matthias.merkel=staclar.com () nanog org> On Behalf Of Matt Erculiani
Sent: Thursday, 14 January 2021 17:46
To: ahebert () pubnix net
Cc: nanog () nanog org list <nanog () nanog org>
Subject: Re: Parler

Is there a remote possibility here that Verisign might say "yeah, we're gonna glue this domain down to 0.0.0.0 and not 
allow registration"? Is there any precedent for this? Would seem like a game of whack-a-mole that anyone would want to 
avoid.

Really that would seem like the only way to ratchet up the "internet death penalty" even further at this point, barring 
any major ISPs coming out and saying they'll block it from transiting their networks. Again, more whack-a-mole, and 
arguably a more serious precedent to set as Verisign isn't the only TLD registrar.

-Matt

On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 7:24 AM Alain Hebert <ahebert () pubnix net<mailto:ahebert () pubnix net>> wrote:
    Hi,

    This is just their DNS, parler.com<http://parler.com> itself returns to 0.0.0.0 now.


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On 1/14/21 12:02 AM, Valdis Klētnieks wrote:

On Wed, 13 Jan 2021 18:41:55 -0500, Matt Corallo said:

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<http://parler.com> ns

...

parler.com<http://parler.com>.             300     IN      NS ns4.epik.com<http://ns4.epik.com>.

parler.com<http://parler.com>.             300     IN      NS ns3.epik.com<http://ns3.epik.com>.

...

ns3.epik.com<http://ns3.epik.com>.           108450  IN      A   52.55.168.70

It's quite possible that Amazon is playing this *entirely* by the book, and

the Parler crew haven't violated the terms of the nameserver hosting

agreement so Amazon hasn't cut that off.



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Matt Erculiani
ERCUL-ARIN