Nitter.net has disappeared

<i>someone filed a complaint to Njalla about unconsensual nudity being hosted on nitter.net, with a link that actually came from another instance.</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;zedeus&#x2F;nitter&#x2F;issues&#x2F;1150#issuecomment-1890851760">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;zedeus&#x2F;nitter&#x2F;issues&#x2F;1150#issuecomment-18...</a><p>Extremely not-encouraging.<p><i>I didn&#x27;t think much of it when I got an email with the subject &quot;Njalla: New Message&quot;, and the body just being a link, while traveling.</i><p>This is not what I would call professional behavior by Njalla. Apparently everything they send you, including &quot;hey try our new iOS app in the app store!&quot;, comes in the form of &quot;Njalla: New Message &lt;hyperlink&gt;&quot;. So you have to click-login-read every one of those &quot;new app in the app store!&quot; spams in order to not miss the &quot;hey we might suspend your domain&quot; messages. And of course you can&#x27;t write spam filtering rules for any of this since it&#x27;s all forced through a browser flow instead of your mail client. Great.<p>And this login-to-read-the-link is with the credentials that control transfers of your domain -- heaven forbid you might not want to keep those on every machine from which you read email...

<i>nitter.net is unavailable because Njalla (domain vendor) suspended my account. I&#x27;m waiting for them to respond.</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;zedeus&#x2F;nitter&#x2F;issues&#x2F;1150#issuecomment-1890812835">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;zedeus&#x2F;nitter&#x2F;issues&#x2F;1150#issuecomment-18...</a><p>That is extremely disturbing. Njalla is the owner-of-record (i.e. nominee) for all domains registered through them, rather than merely the registrar. If they run off with your domain you have significantly fewer options for dealing with it than with any other registrar.<p>I expected better than &quot;shoot first ask questions later&quot; from them. At least shoot while asking the questions; the owner should&#x27;ve had an explanation for the suspension waiting in their inbox.

Wow, really surprising that Njal.la is the registrar and suspended zedeus, given they advertise themselves as resilient to government requests (not as trigger-happy when it comes to legal threats as other hosters). Their about page says:<p>&gt; The idea behind Njalla is to make sure that your visibility to the public is minimised if you need it to be. We&#x27;re not going to give your customer data out easily. <i>However, we will help if there are legal merits to any formal government requests to our system.</i> If you use our service in a way that affects anyones health or safety, we reserve the right to suspend your service.<p>Does this mean Twitter gave a very valid legal threat? Or worse, is there some Twitter content that is being mirrored that is unsavory and triggered an immediate suspension from Njalla? This is unfortunately very common for Nitter in particular [0] [1].<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;zedeus&#x2F;nitter&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;DMCA-templates">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;zedeus&#x2F;nitter&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;DMCA-templates</a> [1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;zedeus&#x2F;nitter&#x2F;issues&#x2F;482">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;zedeus&#x2F;nitter&#x2F;issues&#x2F;482</a>

A list of Nitter mirrors and their uptime status for those looking for alternatives: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;status.d420.de&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;status.d420.de&#x2F;</a>

&gt;add 185.246.188.57 nitter.net to your hosts file<p>Good workaround, but not so helpful for iOS.

This so called Njalla&#x27;s website screams scam. No contacts, no people. Just a mention of some 1337 LLC in the depths of pages and a lot of attention to &quot;what Njalla means ... From the dictionary ... &#x2F;ˈɲalla&#x2F; (Sami)&quot; on every page as if someone gives a shit. And, of course, it&#x27;s overpriced, too. No wonder, the account has been suspended.

&quot;Felt a bit shitty to have my domain taken down over something I&#x27;m not responsible for. The content is only available through Nitter because Twitter makes it available.&quot;<p>He totally is responsible, the argument &quot;i only serve it because twitter serves it&quot; is bad in my opinion, he&#x27;s still serving it, just because Twitter does it too doesn&#x27;t absolve him of all responsibility

Tangential, but Firefox&#x27;s error message &quot;Hmm. We’re having trouble finding that site. An error occurred during a connection to nitter.net.&quot; is so user-friendly it is useless.<p>Is the certificate invalid? Is the DNS record missing? Was the IP address found, but is returning malformed answers? Is it returning nothing at all? Can I even reach any DNS servers, or is my connection to the internet itself dead?<p>The browser isn&#x27;t telling, not even behind a &quot;show details&quot; button. There&#x27;s only &quot;trouble&quot; and &quot;an error&quot;, and some patronizing anthropomorphism with the &quot;Hmm.&quot;

njal.la restored nitter.net, and replied with their reasons: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;zedeus&#x2F;nitter&#x2F;issues&#x2F;1150#issuecomment-1891049573">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;zedeus&#x2F;nitter&#x2F;issues&#x2F;1150#issuecomment-18...</a><p>tbh I can totally understand why they acted this way.

How would you know any nudity on twitter was unconsensual? How would you prove it to the service you are asking to block it? Do they just assume it is if anything nude shows up?

Could this be Twitter paying or forcing Njalla to shut down Nitter?

So what are the alternatives to Njalla?

I hope that&#x27;s the last straw needed to switch away from this unprofessional registrar run from a basement.