Overview
- DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin told TMZ the agency had blocked the redirect, but Mediaite and Newsweek each tested the link and still reached dhs.gov.
- Mark Davis, a congressional candidate in Florida, said on Threads that he bought nazis.us and pointed it to DHS as a form of protest.
- GoDaddy WHOIS records show the domain was registered on January 13 with a Florida mailing address and no publicly identifiable owner.
- The episode underscores that any registrant can configure a domain to forward to another website without that site's consent.
- The redirect gained traction on Reddit and in media coverage during heightened scrutiny of DHS and ICE following the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis.