(((They))) have shutdown stormfront.org and dailystorrmer.com by pulling the domain name. There are many ways to work around this and have access when we need it.

First of all let's remember the ip address of voat. Save that image in case the voat domain name gets taken offline. If the domain gets taken offf line, you can use this to edit the hosts file on your machine, and add an entry for voat, like this:

104.20.82.63 voat.co 104.20.43.57 8ch.net 104.16.117.221 boards.4chan.org

Now you can access voat anyways, even if the domain name got taken offline. This is not a perfect solution, because it is not dynamic, if the IP address changes.

If we want to have a more dynamic solution we need to have a database backend. Namecoin might be the best solution since it has been designed to be censorship resistant and to protect free speech.

Only trouble that I see with namecoin is that it requires the user to install software, a slight inconvenience for some people. I actually have to install it and familiarize myself with it.

The best way to make it easy for everyone to get around the DNS blockage might be to use a Chrome extension. I have created a Chrome extension that replaces a youtube url with a hooktube url. With a slight modification, it could translate a domain name to an IP address and replace it in the url.

To connect the browser extension and the database, some glue would be needed, like a cgi script on a server that has a namecoin client installed. It might just be a simple cgi script that does something similar to

#!/bin/bash dig $1

This would be my plan to keep these websites accessible, if they went down. I'll probably be able to do this all myself in a couple of days or weeks (because I am slow and busy).

I think we should be discussing this more and finding good solid solutions around this censorship. Censoring domain names is not an attack that should be shutting websites down because there are really so many ways around it. We just need to find one that is suitable and then develop any tools such as browser extensions to make it easy to use.