Members of the Ku Klux Klan faced counterprotesters while rallying in support of Confederate monuments in Charlottesville, Virginia, in July. Reuters/Jonathan Ernst

The white supremacist website Stormfront.org is struggling to get back online.

Its founder, former Ku Klux Klan chief Don Black, has complained that the website is down after the domain registrar Network Solutions yanked the domain and that he's also unable to transfer the domain to another provider.

The website has been offline since Friday.

Via his radio show on Monday, Black said Network Solutions had "taken it upon themselves to censor anybody they want." He added: "Late Friday, without any notice, they didn't even send me an email — they decided that Stormfront was politically incorrect and therefore they could close it down.

"Not only did they close the domain name — I can't even transfer it. I can't even try to transfer it to another registrar because they can do whatever they want."

Black added that he was trying to get his lawyers to "go after these idiots." And while he has numerous other domains registered with other providers, he specifically wants to bring Stormfront.org back online.

The Knoxville News Sentinel first reported on Friday that Network Solutions had suspended the Stormfront.org domain.

Network Solutions hasn't commented on its actions, and its parent firm Web.com has not responded to a request for comment.

The domain suspension may be linked to pressure from the civil-rights group Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, which wrote to Web.com earlier this month to accuse Stormfront of violating the company's "acceptable user policy" — specifically because of the site's "racist" content and "bigotry." Black attributed Stormfront's shutdown to the group.

A domain search on Stormfront.org shows that the domain is "on hold," a status normally assigned to sites that are involved in legal disputes or nonpayment or that are about to be deleted.

Stormfront is a forum-style site first registered online, according to Black, in January 1995. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Stormfront was the first major white supremacist website, and its members have been disproportionately responsible for mass killings. Norwegian terrorist Anders Breivik, who killed 77 people, posted on the site.

Stormfront's suspension follows a wider US crackdown on hate websites. Multiple domain hosts pulled support for another neo-Nazi site, The Daily Stormer, while payment and fundraising firms including Apple and GoFundMe have refused to support white supremacist websites.