# The Daily Stormer Neo-Nazi website founded by [[Andrew Anglin]] on July 4, 2013. Named after the Nazi-era German tabloid *Der Sturmer*. Combined Nazi ideology with internet memes from [[4chan]] to recruit young audiences through provocative, meme-heavy content promoting white supremacy, fascism, antisemitism, and Holocaust denial. ## Domain Seizure Cascade (2017) After Anglin posted content mocking Heather Heyer, killed at the [[Unite the Right]] rally in Charlottesville (August 2017), the site was expelled by domain registrar after domain registrar: - GoDaddy → Google Domains → Cloudflare all dropped the site - Briefly registered .ru ([[Russia]]), .al (Albania), .top, .cat, .name domains — each seized within days - Hosted briefly on the dark web via Tor - Registered on British territory of Anguilla (.ai domain) - Eventually settled on Icelandic .is domain via ISNIC - Went through at least 15 domains and hosting providers between 2017-2022 ## Legal Consequences - August 2019: Federal judge ordered Anglin to pay $14 million to Tanya Gersh of Whitefish, Montana, for organizing a targeted harassment campaign against her - Anglin has remained a fugitive, believed to be hiding overseas ## 2026 Closure In March 2026, Anglin announced the site would be shutting down, writing: "This is the way of things. The world goes to war. The Daily Stormer shuts down." ## Significance The Daily Stormer represented the convergence of chan culture and organized white supremacy — a template for how extremist ideology could be packaged in ironic, meme-driven formats to radicalize young internet users. Its domain seizure saga became a landmark case in debates over free speech, platform responsibility, and deplatforming effectiveness. ## See Also - [[StoneToss]] — the visual-meme counterpart to Anglin's text-based ironic neo-Nazism