The infamous neo-Nazi site Daily Stormer is back online again, but maybe not for very long.

The saga of The Daily Stormer is well into its second week. Earlier this month, a white supremacist allegedly rammed his car into a crowd of counter-protestors in Charlottesville, killing protestor Heather Heyer. Stormer editor Andrew Anglin responded with a vulgar post attacking Heyer. Then anti-racism activists started lobbying technology companies to stop doing business with the site in an effort to drive the Stormer off the Internet.

The campaign worked. Over the last week, the site has cycled through a sequence of domains—dailystormer.com, dailystormer.wang, dailystormer.ru, and then dailystormer.lol—as one domain registrar after another succumbed to activist pressure to take the site down. On Wednesday, the site appeared online again at punishedstormer.com.

"We stopped registering random names because just going on and off was stupid and pointless," Anglin wrote on Thursday morning. "We think that DreamHost, where Punished Stormer is, will hold."

DreamHost is a popular Web hosting provider known for hosting controversial content. "We will host any website as long as its content is legal in the United States of America," a DreamHost spokesperson told Ars in an e-mail last week. And DreamHost provides domain registration services as well as Web hosting. That's significant because getting a reliable domain name has been The Daily Stormer's biggest challenge so far.

At the same time, DreamHost has been defending the privacy rights of customers at the opposite end of the political spectrum. The Trump administration tried to force DreamHost to turn over logs of the 1.3 million IP addresses that visited an anti-Trump protest site hosted by DreamHost. DreamHost fought that request in court, and the Trump administration backed down this week.

On Thursday, within hours of the new Daily Stormer site going online, someone launched an attack targeting DreamHost's name servers. "Our engineers have identified the cause of the DNS degradation as a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack," the company reported.

DreamHost could pay a serious price for its commitment to its policies. The DDoS attack has disrupted service to other DreamHost customers, and some of them have taken to Twitter, blaming The Daily Stormer and DreamHost—not the attackers—for the outage.

Last week, DreamHost portrayed the issue as a matter of principle, writing that its policy of hosting all legal content is a "longstanding policy, one that has been in place since we began in 1997."

Update (August 24, 10pm): Dreamhost has canceled the Daily Stormer's account. They e-mailed Ars a statement explaining the decision: