Enlarge / Demonstrators protest outside of a speech by white nationalist Richard Spencer, who popularized the term “alt-right,” at Michigan State University on March 5, 2018. (credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Domain registrar GoDaddy has stopped providing domain-registration service to altright.com, knocking the hate site offline. The site was the brainchild of Richard Spencer, the white supremacist who coined the term “alt right” to describe white nationalist beliefs. GoDaddy made the decision last Thursday, days after the Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights sent GoDaddy a letter asking for the site to be shut down.

“Altright.com is in clear violation of GoDaddy’s terms of service as it includes content actively inciting violence, particularly against racial and ethnic minorities,” the group wrote in a late April letter.

The group cited GoDaddy’s 2017 decision to blacklist the neo-Nazi site the Daily Stormer as a precedent. GoDaddy banned the Stormer after its editor wrote a vulgar post mocking Heather Heyer, a woman who was killed during last year’s white supremacist protests in Charlottesville, Virginia.