Parler’s website is back online after Amazon takes it off the internet

After Amazon, Google and Apple forced Parler to go offline after the deadly US Capitol uprising, the social networking company managed to make an online return on Sunday.

The social media site, which is popular with Donald Trump supporters, has not regained full operability, but Parler’s CEO, John Matze, is “confident” that the site will fully reappear in late January.

“Our return is inevitable due to hard work and persistence against all odds,” says Matze on the Parler website.

“Despite threats and harassment, no Parler employee resigned. We are becoming closer and stronger as a team.”

The social networking site went black when Amazon stopped providing cloud hosting services after it was revealed that the platform was used to help organize the January 6 attack on Capitol Hill, which left five people dead. Amazon’s actions followed Apple and Google’s initiatives to ban the Parler app from their respective stores. The Parler app, which is most popular with its user base, remains unavailable.

Questions were raised about how Parler came back online after being ejected from the Internet. The Parler domain is registered with Epik, according to the WHOIS domain name database, however, a statement from Epik published on Monday says the company “has had no contact or discussion with Parler in any way about becoming your registrar or hosting provider. “

Citing an infrastructure expert, a Reuters report indicated that the IP address used by Epic is owned by DDos-Guard, which is “controlled by two Russian men and provides services, including protection against distributed denial of service attacks”. The company that owns DDos-Guard is called Cognitive Cloud LP, according to the report.

Parler CEO John Matze did not immediately respond to a request for comment from CNET.