Anonymous Floridian Registers ‘NAZIS.US’ and Redirects It to Homeland Security Website — DHS Tries and Fails to Block

Sarah RumpfJan 15th, 2026, 7:02 pm

Screenshot via dhs.gov / Photo by Bundesarchiv, Bild 102-10460 / Hoffmann, Heinrich / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 DE, via Wikimedia Commons

An anonymous person in Florida has registered the domain nazis.us and redirected it to the Department of Homeland Security’s website in an apparent protest of the Trump administration.

As of Thursday evening, the URL that sounds like it would be the homepage for U.S.-based Nazis does still redirect to dhs.gov when entered into a web browser.

According to GoDaddy’s WHOIS database records, nazis.us was registered on Jan. 13 by someone with a mailing address in Florida. Mediaite reached out to the registrant through the contact form on Wednesday but has not received a reply.

TMZ reported on the website prank and shared a short video showing the redirect in action on a mobile phone screen.

“[F]or now, nobody seems to know why it is happening,” noted TMZ’s report, but “anyone purchasing a web domain can redirect the URL to any other site on the internet if they so choose.”

“We’ve successfully blocked the redirect,” DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin claimed when TMZ reached out for comment, but the redirect was still operational when Mediaite tested it, and for numerous other commentators online.

For months, DHS has been posting content that has been heavily criticized for bearing a strong resemblance to images and slogans used by the Nazis and other white supremacists, including misappropriating Norman Rockwell’s paintings to pair with its propaganda — drawing a sharp rebuke from the famous artist’s family.

The registration of nazis.us came amid escalating protests against the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, especially in the aftermath of the fatal shooting of Renee Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis.

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Sarah Rumpf - Contributing Editor

Sarah Rumpf joined Mediaite in 2020 and is a Contributing Editor focusing on politics, law, and the media. A native Floridian, Sarah attended the University of Florida, graduating with a double major in Political Science and German, and earned her Juris Doctor, cum laude, from the UF College of Law. Sarah's writing has been featured at National Review, The Daily Beast, Reason, Law&Crime, Independent Journal Review, Texas Monthly, The Capitolist, Breitbart Texas, Townhall, RedState, The Orlando Sentinel, and the Austin-American Statesman, and her political commentary has led to appearances on television, radio, and podcast programs across the globe. Follow Sarah on Threads, Twitter, and Bluesky.