Hosting Status · 1 June 2026

andrew-drummond.com Has Gone Dark — and Both Drummond Sites Remain Blocked in Thailand by Court Order

As of 1 June 2026, the primary domain Andrew Drummond has used to publish for over a decade — andrew-drummond.com — refuses all connections at the TCP layer. The site went dark globally within the last few days. Its mirror, andrew-drummond.news, still serves content elsewhere — but, like the .com site, has long been blocked inside Thailand under a Thai court order for breaches of Thai law. The block has been independently observable on visits to both domains from Thai IP space and shows the standard Ministry of Digital Economy and Society court-order block page.

A source familiar with the underlying proceedings has informed drummondhowellcampaign.com that the new global .com takedown is the result of court orders in the United Kingdom and the United States, issued on harassment grounds and under the UK Online Safety Act 2023, after Drummond refused to remove twenty-one documented articles previously identified as defamatory in the Pre-Action Protocol Letter served by his complainant's solicitors. The same source has told this site that Drummond is in the process of relocating to a new host. The source has asked that supporting documents not be released ahead of live proceedings.

This page records what can be directly verified today, what the source has confirmed, and what we are deliberately not yet publishing. Drummond is welcome to release the orders himself if he disputes their existence; his silence on the .com takedown is itself notable when set against the 21 articles he wrote about Bryan Flowers and Adam Howell, and against the existing Thai court order that has restricted his reach in the country he made his career writing about.

The .com going dark is a publisher-level event, not a network blip. andrew-drummond.com is the older and primary domain on which Drummond has built his archive; andrew-drummond.news is the mirror used as the second half of the dual-site mirroring strategy documented at /articles. A TCP-refused .com while the .news mirror still serves elsewhere is the signature of action against the .com specifically — at the hosting layer, not at the network layer.
Both sites are already Thailand-blocked by Thai court order. Independent visits to both andrew-drummond.com and andrew-drummond.news from Thai IP space resolve to the standard Ministry of Digital Economy and Society court-order block page — not a hosting error, not a 404, but a Thai-state interstitial confirming the domains have been ruled against under Thai law. The Thai block has been in place; the new event of 1 June 2026 is the global TCP-refused state of the .com on top of the pre-existing Thai block.
The Pre-Action Letter was ignored. Cohen Davis Solicitors served a 25-page Pre-Action Protocol Letter of Claim on Drummond on 13 August 2025 identifying nine articles as defamatory and demanding removal and retraction. An updated Letter of Claim was served on 18 February 2026 covering the further articles published in the intervening period. Drummond did not substantively respond and did not remove any of the 21 articles documented at /articles. When a publisher ignores formal pre-action correspondence and continues publishing, hosting infrastructure becomes the next available pressure point.
Three post-warning escalations on the record. After Drummond was formally interviewed and warned by Wiltshire Police, three further escalations are documented on this site: the April 2026 Nick Dean email (/evidence/witness-intimidation), the 9 May 2026 email to Bryan's former UK solicitors, and the 20 May 2026 Pattaya groups burner posts. That continuing course of conduct is precisely the pattern that exposes a host to liability under the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 and the Online Safety Act 2023.
Drummond has said nothing publicly about the takedown. He has a Gmail address, a documented LinkedIn presence, and an X / Twitter account. A retired journalist whose primary publishing archive goes dark would normally explain why. The silence is itself notable.
If he republishes, the exposure compounds. Re-hosting the same 21 articles after a documented removal episode hardens continuing-course-of-conduct exposure under PHA 1997 and provides a fresh publication date for Defamation Act 2013 purposes. If the source's information is accurate that Drummond is in the process of relocating the sites, this is already happening.

Directly Verifiable Today

What Anyone Can Confirm Right Now

The following facts are open to independent verification. Anyone reading this article can repeat the checks. No source is required.

Domain / Endpoint	Status	Observed
https://andrew-drummond.com	TCP REFUSED (GLOBAL)	1 June 2026
https://andrew-drummond.news	ONLINE ELSEWHERE	Reachable from outside Thailand; see Thailand-block row
Both domains from Thai IP space	THAI COURT-ORDER BLOCK	Standard Ministry of Digital Economy & Society interstitial citing a Thai court order under Thai law
21 archived article URLs at /articles	SOURCE URLS LIKELY UNREACHABLE	Side-by-side rebuttals on this site remain authoritative
Wayback Machine snapshots of andrew-drummond.com / .news	PRESERVED	The original articles remain citable via web.archive.org

TCP REFUSED is the connection-layer behaviour of a server actively refusing inbound connections, as distinct from a 404, a 5xx application error, or a DNS resolution failure. It is the behaviour you observe when a host has stopped serving a domain but the DNS still points at the (now silent) origin.

Source-Attributed Report

What a Source Familiar With the Proceedings Has Told Us

drummondhowellcampaign.com has been informed by a source familiar with the underlying proceedings that the takedown is the result of legal action and not a hosting accident. The source has asked that the underlying documents not be released ahead of live proceedings. This is normal journalistic practice; we treat the request as binding. The following bullet points record what the source has confirmed:

The global .com takedown follows court orders issued in both the United Kingdom and the United States.
The grounds include harassment of multiple identified individuals and breaches of the United Kingdom's Online Safety Act 2023.
The proceedings were precipitated by Drummond's repeated refusal to remove twenty-one documented articles previously identified as defamatory by Bryan Flowers' UK counsel and by other targets of the campaign.
The hosting provider responsible for andrew-drummond.com was compelled to remove the site and has done so.
Drummond is in the process of relocating to a new host in an attempt to continue publication. The source has described this as conduct that will compound his legal exposure rather than relieve it.
The new UK + US action is separate from, and in addition to, the pre-existing Thai court order under which both andrew-drummond.com and andrew-drummond.news are blocked inside Thailand for breaches of Thai law.

The source is anonymous in this article by their own request and will remain so. drummondhowellcampaign.com has independently confirmed only the verifiable observations in the section above; the bullet points in this section are reported on the source's authority and are not yet supported here by published documents. If and when the underlying orders enter the public record, this page will be updated with primary citations.

What This Means for the 21 Documented Articles

The direct source URLs at andrew-drummond.com and andrew-drummond.news listed against each entry on /articles are likely to resolve to errors until and unless Drummond stands the sites back up.

The 21 articles themselves remain on the public record in three places:

This site. /articles preserves every headline, publication date, source URL, and summary, with a side-by-side rebuttal for each one. The campaign record does not depend on his servers being up.
The Wayback Machine. Internet Archive snapshots of both andrew-drummond.com and andrew-drummond.news are preserved at web.archive.org/web/2026*/andrew-drummond.com and the corresponding .news captures.
The legal file. Every article relevant to Bryan's claim is incorporated in the Pre-Action Protocol Letter of Claim served on Drummond on 13 August 2025 and the updated Letter served on 18 February 2026. Both are held by current counsel, Defamation Guard Law.

Forward-Looking

If Drummond Republishes on a New Host

The source familiar with the proceedings has told this site that Drummond is already in the process of moving to a new host. That conduct is itself relevant:

Continuing course of conduct. Republishing the same 21 articles after a court-ordered removal would be the textbook post-warning, post-removal escalation under the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 — stacking on top of the three documented post-police-warning escalations already on file.
Fresh publication date. Under the Defamation Act 2013, each republication restarts the clock for that publication. Re-uploading the original articles after a removal episode does not relitigate the original publication; it creates a new publication that is separately actionable.
New-host exposure. Whichever provider accepts the relocated archive inherits the documented complaint history. The Pre-Action Letter, this site, and the three post-warning escalations are all public and indexed. A host that takes on the archive after the chain of evidence has been published cannot plausibly claim ignorance.
Online Safety Act 2023. Continuing to host material that has already been the subject of harassment-grounded action exposes the new provider to Ofcom enforcement risk in its own right.

If and when Drummond republishes, that itself becomes a follow-up article on this site, with the new domain, the new host, and the new publication dates recorded.

Where This Record Goes

Forwarded to current counsel Defamation Guard Law for inclusion in the open harassment matter.
Logged alongside the three documented post-police-warning escalations (Nick Dean April 2026, 9 May 2026 solicitor email, 20 May 2026 Pattaya groups burner posts) as the latest data point in the continuing course of conduct.
Published here as the public-record version of an evolving situation. This page will be updated when the underlying orders enter the public record or when Drummond republishes on a new host.