Cock.li links donated e-mail domain 'hitler.rocks' to two intelligence agencies, permanently removes it from registration
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Cock.li's administration team has identified connections between the registration and addition to cock.li of the domain hitler.rocks and two intelligence agencies who directly benefited from its association to the service. The administration team is declining to name the agencies or individuals.
Cock.li has provided free e-mail service to Internet users since 2013. Its assortment of shock domains has provided immeasurable comedic value to e-mail users worldwide, much to the shagrin of people with no funny bones. The domain itself has never ever mattered, what's always mattered is whether it could make us laugh when we imagine a friend receiving an e-mail and reading the domain aloud.
Case in point: The domain horsefucker.org was added before anyone remotely associated with cock.li realized its origins are from a community that watches My Little Pony porn. We've carried that clop for all these years because even after realizing its true origins, the story of this domain only got funnier.
The story of hitler.rocks did not get funnier when we uncovered its origins. After a thorough investigation which has taken place over the last several years, we've concluded it is extremely likely that hitler.rocks was originally offered to cock.li as a poison fruit intended to destabilize the service. And we are certain that the same agencies who were in a position to execute such an operation took every advantage of its association to cock.li, including threatening to associate the domain with unrelated parties in order to convince them to antagonize our service in various acts of cowardice.
In addition to threats, these same agencies are connected to actual attacks against the service. One individual associated with hitler.rocks and later connected to the identified agencies admitted to signing cock.li's abuse mailbox up for thousands of mailing lists, resulting in millions of spam e-mails and a measurable and permanent decrease in our efficiency in processing abuse reports.
We've long known that domains like hitler.rocks can lead to confusion of our values and have the potential for misuse. Clarifying those values would be like explaining the joke, so if you are still confused why we found the domain funny enough to host e-mail on, maybe you could understand that cock.li was never supposed to get so big that you would see it in the first place. We also don't give a shit what you find funny or not.
As a result of our investigation, we've decided that tainted domains like hitler.rocks which we conclude were offered to the service maliciously will never be available for registration again, and may be subject to a future sunset period and service closure. Most of the other domains which disappeared from registration at the same time are either not funny enough to re-add, or are still subject to their own investigation.
Any complaints about not naming the intelligence agencies responsible are valid. The investigation and disclosure could have been quicker, too. Sorry.
One of the best domains on cock.li, nigge.rs, was wrongly subjected to this same treatment and has been closed for registration for several years. Cock.li stands no longer for the baseless discrimination of this strong and independent domain. So, it is our pleasure to announce that nigge.rs is available for immediate public registration once again.
It's our hope by making this announcement you will be better informed of one of the mechanisms that shape the course of speech online. Anyone intending to disrupt cock.li in the future should be warned we will patiently dig at the roots of your operation until we uncover its most basic attacks on human rights. But as of now we at cock.li should hopefully have the closure we need to heal from this mess and move forward with our work on the service.
—Cock.li Administration Team