Graf has decided to move off of Njalla and also try to get Poast ICANN-accredited, somehow:
If you're using Njalla at this point, you must be utterly oblivious to what is going on around you. The only point is if you are mortally afraid of being doxed, and willing to sacrifice actual ownership of your domain, while paying more money for the privilege to a bunch of lunatics that may seize your domain at any moment with no recourse. There is a legal entity called "Poast, LLC" (apparently) that can act as the registrant, why does he need a service like Njalla?
He uses Incognet (or at least his Gentoo mirror does
https://bugs.gentoo.org/917619) and they have a very similar service to Njalla
https://incognet.io/anonymous-domains so why didn't he use that?
So what domain did he decide would be an excellent idea to host with a tranny loving self-described communist? Oh nothing big, only poast.org
Code:
Domain Name: poast.org
<snip>
Registrant Organization: 1337 Services LLC
Has graf bothered to even initiate the process of moving his domain to another provider? Nope!
Code:
Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
(Domain registrars refer to this as a transfer lock. Disabling it is step 1 of moving and usually takes a few minutes with any competent registrar.)
He has been playing with the idea of becoming ICANN-accredited for some time, but you need to demonstrate you have money in the bank (or the ability to raise it via loans) by having a working capital of USD $70,000.
https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/financials-55-2012-02-25-en
Does he have this kind of money on hand? I think this was doable a couple years ago when interest rates were lower and before he burned all his bridges. The donation bar at patron.poa.st and give.poast.org shows
It's better than I thought and would definitely cover server costs, but if he also has to live off of this then it becomes more of a challenge, and you have to consider this is pre-tax income. What bank would commit themselves to lending him enough money to satisfy the accreditation? Does he even have enough scratch kicking around to comfortably pay the USD $3,500 application fee?
When he says he's talking to his ISP, he's probably talking about Incognet and is likely trying to convince them to seek ICANN-accreditation so he can resell their service and have a "WE DID IT REDDIT" moment without putting in any work himself.
There are far easier things graf can do to frustrate deplatforming attempts that he hasn't bothered with. Such as
- Get an ASN (~$8,000 USD for a /24 https://auctions.ipv4.global/ and RIR yearly fees are sub $1,000 for small allocations)
- Stop using Cloudflare (poa.st is delegated to jeff.ns.cloudflare.com. and stephane.ns.cloudflare.com. and uses their layer 7 proxying)
- Transfer domains away from hostile wannabe registrars
If you ever wanted proof that poa.st is a dead gay website, just consider that he can host it like a personal blog and suffer no inconvenience.
