Seattle's "Outside Agitators 206" & why they want to drive a wedge between BLM and Democrats

[jeff47]

47. Most likely it always was and still is Amazon's IP address.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a massive operation hosting tens of thousands of web sites and "cloud applications". They have a lot of IPs, and will let you use one for a small monthly fee.

You literally click a checkbox on a form, and you have the IP in seconds. If you decide you don't need it anymore, you uncheck the box, and Amazon can sell the IP to someone else.

What they are doing above is showing an old DNS record for that IP. DNS is what translates between democraticunderground.com and 216.158.28.196. The new DNS record points to a different entity, a "privacy" company that hides the real name and address of the person who registered the domain.

Btw, such "privacy" listings are extremely common. I have a domain name. I use a privacy company so my home name and address is not on the DNS record. If someone were to sue me or a government were to prosecute me, the privacy company will hand over my name and address. But I don't want to hand out my home address and phone number to everyone on the Internet.