Dramatica

On April 14, 2011, the original URL of the site was redirected to a new website named "Oh Internet" that bore little resemblance to Encyclopedia Dramatica. Parts of the ED community harshly criticized the changes.[18] On the night of the Encyclopedia Dramatica shutdown, regular ED visitors bombarded the 'Oh Internet' Facebook wall with hate messages.[19] The Web Ecology Project published a downloadable archive of Encyclopedia Dramatica content's the next day.[20][21] Besides this archive, fan-made torrents and several mirrors of the original site were subsequently generated.[22] Based on these archives, the site has repeatedly gone offline and come back under new domain names, with the website currently being hosted at encyclopediadramatica.online. Between 2013 and 2019, the website was hosted under various top level domains: .rs, .ch, .es, and .se,[23] with each domain bearing the second-level domain "encyclopediadramatica".[24][25]

Dramatica

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On April 14, 2011, the URL encyclopediadramatica.com was redirected to "Oh Internet",[18] an entirely different safe-for-work website that DeGrippo had created.[18][51] The name "Oh Internet" is meant to convey "Oh, Internet, you are so crazy!"[48] DeGrippo stated that "Shock for shock's sake is old at this point [...] ." Some regular users of Encyclopedia Dramatica were displeased by the change and attacked the website's official Facebook fan page[19] with "hate messages and pornography".[18]

From April 2011,[55] Ryan Cleary hosted a fork of Encyclopedia Dramatica at encyclopediadramatica.ch.[24][56] Members of this project gathered text and images from Google's web cache and other backups, and a script was created to upload cached information.[24] On June 21, 2011, Scotland Yard arrested Ryan Cleary based on alleged connections to online attacks on Sony.[57][58] The arrest temporarily disrupted operation of the wiki, but other members were able to resume Cleary's duties.[24]

On March 19, 2012, encyclopediadramatica.ch was shut down for a short time due to a "DNS block". On March 21, 2012, the site moved to a Swedish domain name, at encyclopediadramatica.se, instead of a domain in Switzerland as before. The site's Facebook account later addressed the block, stating that it was because "we didn't keep up our end of the nic.ch user agreement contract stating that we had to keep a mailing address and phone number in Switzerland."[60]

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