Another right wing good Christian spreading the word of Jesus with jack boots, racism, and a young flat earth story. What a guy.
Epik.com has been for years the go-to domain registrar for websites that other companies refuse to do business with. Sites dedicated to white nationalism, QAnon conspiracy theories, and harassing transgender people were all welcomed by Epik. Now, it appears that Epik’s new owner may abandon the extremist fringe and shift its customer base toward companies seeking to operate in the shadows.
Rob Monster, a born-again Christian who founded Epik in 2009, had been key in keeping many of the most extreme websites online. He often went to great lengths to personally defend the sites and extolled the virtues of free speech. Epik was sold to new ownership last year after the company unraveled amid allegations of gross financial mismanagement.
What a case of nominative determinism
The founder of Epik’s name is Rob… Monster? Really?
He is Dutch and the surname Monster is not especially strange there.
Added: it may be related to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster,_South_Holland
There is a great deal of uncertainty over the origin of the name “Monster”. It is probably derived from the Latin monasterium, meaning monastery. The name was also used for the ground that belonged to a monastery. Another explanation was that Monster was derived from the old-Dutch word monster, which meant amongst others “big church” (from Latin: monstrum), which is supported by the fact that Monster had in those days one of the largest churches in the area
I’m sure the Congo agrees
Question is, is he robbing monsters, or is he a monster that robs?
He can’t be robbing the undead, or Rob Zombie could sue. He is probably stealing from the poor, so Rob Lowe might have a case here.
Epik, once valued by an investor at around $150 million was sold for around $5 million dollars in June 2023, according to a purchase agreement released as an exhibit in the Adkisson lawsuit. Much of the $5 million purchase price was allocated to paying off some of Epik’s debts.
“Go woke go broke” though right? lmaoooooo
Rob Monster, a born-again Christian who founded Epik in 2009, had been key in keeping many of the most extreme websites online.
Can’t make this up.
Rob Monster
You can almost hear the mournful cries of the grifters. It is such a sweet song.
It’s situations like these that remind that’s it’s better to build your own server and self-host your website from there.
This is a domain registrar. You can’t do that on your home system.
They might have also done some server hosting, but the main business is the domain registrar.
True. If you don’t mind me asking, why bother with a domain registrar anyways?
You wanna tell people an IP address?
Never thought of it like that.
How did you think of it?
Not everyone thinks of the intricacies of how things they use daily work. Not everyone owns a domain already and I want to see Lemmy be a place where people can be curious and learn.
It’s too bad you’re getting downvoted. This is how we learn.
