After Amazon, Google, and Apple Parler went offline following the deadly US Capitol uprising, the social networking company made an online comeback on Sunday.
The social media website popular with supporters of President Donald Trump has not regained its full functionality, but Parler's CEO John Matze is reportedly "confident" that it will be fully back online by the end of January.
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"Our return is inevitable due to hard work and persistence despite all odds," said a post by Matze on the Parler website.
"Despite the threats and harassment, not a single Parler employee has resigned. We are getting closer and stronger as a team."
The social networking website went dark when Amazon stopped providing cloud hosting services after it was revealed that the platform was used to organize the Jan 6th Capitol Hill attack that killed five people. Amazon's actions followed the steps taken by Apple and Google to ban the Parler mobile app from their respective stores. The Parler app, which is more popular with its users, is still unavailable.
Questions have been raised about how Parler got back online after being banned from the internet. The Parler domain is registered with Epik according to the WHOIS domain name database. However, a statement released by Epik on Monday said the company "had no contact or discussion with Parler in any form about our becoming their registrar or hosting provider."
In a Reuters report, citing an infrastructure expert, it was stated that the IP address used belongs to Epic DDos-Guard, which "is controlled by two Russian men and provides services including protection against distributed denial-of-service attacks". The company that owns DDos-Guard is called Cognitive Cloud LP, according to the report.
Parler CEO John Matze did not immediately respond to a CNET request for comment.
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