Why did Columbus Nova register websites aimed at young white supremacists?
CASEY MICHEL at Think Progress
https://thinkprogress.org/columbus-nova-and-the-alt-right-af5b5471d8cf/
SNIP..........
Stormy Daniels’ attorney Michael Avenatti revealed Tuesday that Columbus Nova, a company based in New York, had funneled some $500,000 to Donald Trump’s longtime lawyer Michael Cohen. Avenatti suggested that the money may have helped cover the $130,000 spent on keeping Daniels quiet about her alleged affair with Trump.
While Columbus Nova claims it has never been “owned by any foreign entity,” it was recently listed as a subsidiary of Renova — a Russia-based conglomerate run by sanctioned oligarch Viktor Vekselberg.
However, the revelations aren’t limited solely to news about a Russia-linked company sending substantial sums to the president’s lawyer. As NBC reported Wednesday morning, Columbus Nova also spent 2016 and 2017 registering a number of websites aimed at young white supremacists, or members of the so-called “alt-right.”
Among the URLs registered were domains like Alt-Right.co, Altrights.co, Alternate-rt.com, and Alt-rite.com. Some of the domains, like Alt-Right.com and Altrights.co, were registered in late August 2016 — just a few months before the American election — while others, like Alt-rite.com, were created in August 2017.
...........SNIP