Who owns the Domain Antifa.com?
The domain name “antifa.com” caused a flurry in September 2020 when it redirected and took visitors to Joe Biden’s presidential campaign website instead. One day after Biden was sworn in as the 46th president, the domain began pulling up the White House’s official website, whitehouse.gov, causing yet another stir. Who owns the Domain Antifa.com? Joe…
The domain name “antifa.com” caused a flurry in September 2020 when it redirected and took visitors to Joe Biden’s presidential campaign website instead. One day after Biden was sworn in as the 46th president, the domain began pulling up the White House’s official website, whitehouse.gov, causing yet another stir.
Who owns the Domain Antifa.com?
Joe Biden has been the target of the redirected URL since he secured the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020. If you go to antifa.com right now, you’ll find that the URL now takes you to the White House’s official .gov website.
According to the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, the antifa.com domain name started forwarding to Joe Biden’s official transition website, BuildBackBetter.gov sometime earlier this month. Then, on January 20, antifa.com began redirecting to WhiteHouse.gov.
Could Joe Biden or someone connected to the 46th president own the domain? Sure, it’s possible. Could the domain be owned by a troll or someone looking to create easily generate some sort of controversy? Also, possible. It’s not clear at this moment who owns the domain “antifa.com.”
The owner uses privacy protection to obfuscate their contact information in the domain’s whois results. Due to this, the owner of the domain is listed as WhoisGuard, a company run by the U.S.-based domain registrar, Namecheap.
