Matze and representatives of DDoS-Guard did not reply to Reuters' requests for comment. Advertisement On Wednesday, January 13, Matze told Reuters the company was in talks with multiple service providers, but declined to elaborate. Matze has since said he's "confident" Parler will be fully operational by the end of January, and that the platform managed to retrieve its data from Amazon. Evgeniy Marchenko, one of DDoS-Guard's two founders and owners, told The Guardian that the company is a global information security service, and said it hosted "thousands of websites." This includes Russian government sites and neo-Nazi site the Daily Stormer. Advertisement