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'HostingAnime' or 'Hosting Anime' was a free web hosting service which was supposedly based in Westchester, California. The company rented webspace from a Houston, Texas-based server known as Everyones Internet. Despite the name, it had nothing to do with Japanese anime.
The company has raised some controversy amongst some Internet-users for hosting many suspected al-Qaeda-run websites which advocate jihad against the United States and other US-led occupation forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.
HostingAnime has been the internet service provider for the websites which show the beheading images and video of Paul Johnson, Kim Sun-il, Eugene Armstrong and Jack Hensley. The company cites "free speech" as a justification for hosting such content.
In 2004, the website won a court victory declaring it perfectly legal for them to host such content, even though the Federal Bureau of Investigation and U.S. Department of Justice have knowledge of the sites being hosted. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has stated that the company is allowed to host such sites because the U.S. Constitution protects freedom of speech.
HostingAnime was registered under a false address and owner name.
Reynalds reported that the contact address provided for HostingAnime is 8939 S. Sepulveda Blvd. Westchester, California 90045. According to the building manager at that location, HostingAnime was not a tenant but a web-hosting company known as Namecheap, HostingAnime's domain name registrar, does maintain offices there.
As of November 16 2004, HostingAnime suspended all militant-linked webpages on its servers. This was due to the purchase of HostingAnime by new owners.
As of May 18 2006, HostingAnime appears to be down, returning a 404 error for trying to access the site. Free-webhosts.com has since removed HostingAnime from its list of available free web hosts [1].
★ HostingAnime's Change of Heart
★ Article on HostingAnime's False Registration
★ Article on HostingAnime
The company has raised some controversy amongst some Internet-users for hosting many suspected al-Qaeda-run websites which advocate jihad against the United States and other US-led occupation forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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| al-Qaeda webhost |
| False information |
| Downtime |
| External links |
al-Qaeda webhost
HostingAnime has been the internet service provider for the websites which show the beheading images and video of Paul Johnson, Kim Sun-il, Eugene Armstrong and Jack Hensley. The company cites "free speech" as a justification for hosting such content.
In 2004, the website won a court victory declaring it perfectly legal for them to host such content, even though the Federal Bureau of Investigation and U.S. Department of Justice have knowledge of the sites being hosted. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has stated that the company is allowed to host such sites because the U.S. Constitution protects freedom of speech.
False information
HostingAnime was registered under a false address and owner name.
Reynalds reported that the contact address provided for HostingAnime is 8939 S. Sepulveda Blvd. Westchester, California 90045. According to the building manager at that location, HostingAnime was not a tenant but a web-hosting company known as Namecheap, HostingAnime's domain name registrar, does maintain offices there.
As of November 16 2004, HostingAnime suspended all militant-linked webpages on its servers. This was due to the purchase of HostingAnime by new owners.
Downtime
As of May 18 2006, HostingAnime appears to be down, returning a 404 error for trying to access the site. Free-webhosts.com has since removed HostingAnime from its list of available free web hosts [1].
External links
★ HostingAnime's Change of Heart
★ Article on HostingAnime's False Registration
★ Article on HostingAnime
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