Stormfront.org
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Type of site
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Forum |
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| Available in | English, with sub-forums in multiple languages |
| Owner | Don Black |
| Created by | Don Black |
| Slogan(s) | "White Pride World Wide" |
| Website | www |
| Alexa rank |
 6,893 (July 2017[update]) |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Required to post (except in open sub-fora) |
| Launched | November 1996 |
| Current status | Seized by Network Solutions, LLC |
Stormfront was a white nationalist,white supremacist and neo-NaziInternet forum. It was the Web's first major racial hate site.
Stormfront began as an online bulletin board system in the early 1990s before being established as a website in 1996 by former Ku Klux Klan leader and white supremacist Don Black. It received national attention in the United States in 2000 after being featured as the subject of a documentary, Hate.com. Stormfront has been the subject of controversy after being removed from French, German, and Italian Google indexes, for targeting an online Fox News poll on racial segregation, and for having political candidates as members. Its prominence has grown since the 1990s, attracting attention from watchdog organizations that oppose racism and antisemitism.
Stormfront began in 1990 as an online bulletin board for white nationalist David Duke's campaign for United States Senator of Louisiana. The name "Stormfront" was chosen for its connotations of a political or military front (such as the German Nazi stormtroopers, the Sturmabteilung or SA) and an analogy with weather fronts that invokes the idea of a tumultuous storm ending in cleansing. It was opened to the public in 1994, and the Stormfront.org website was founded in 1996 by Don Black, becoming the first website associated with white supremacy.
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