here's the story: these guys met on reddit jody williams got onboard in 2016 and 2017. they got together and hatched a plan to get off reddit jody registered the domain, the rest took care of servers and back-end jody said somehow public found out he was the owner of the domain. his family was threatened. then he allegedly said something to rest of mods that upset them. called them racist or something. jody rage-quit and stopped paying for bills. (they started at 200-300/mo and now were 1000/mo.) after jody left, they asked him for the domain he only trusted one person in the group and, in particular, didnt trust one of the mods in the group reasons he cited for not liking a mod: the person didnt trust epik [which i think is what gab uses] (told them to F--- Off) and he also complains that one particular mod controls everything. he said it was too powerful of a mod. too centralized to give him the domain and he'd rather have other people keep it away from him. and another guy doesnt even live in the country. he thought .win should be owned by an american. the guy he wanted to give it to, wouldn't take it. he publically stated "there is a foreign guy who owns all the code and back-end on the domain" and so he made a public offer: "If that guy gives the back-end to the team, then he would transfer the domain." [apparently, the back-end is owned by somebody overseas and they don't have access to it.] At least two other mods did not go for that plan. Instead got together and hatched a redirect plan allegedly formed a trust and registered patriots.win so that not a single person would be able to control it. From the whois it is not clear who actually owns it, as that info is set to private. so today they started forwarding all traffic to patriots.win jody caught wind of takeover, and took thedonald.win down an hour later. it is not clear how many mods went with the takeover plan. at any rate. things seem to be back to normal and even jody himself, suspects it will remain the same for now.