Parler, the social community standard with Trump supporters, is trickling again to life.

The social community went offline final week after Amazon booted it from its pc servers for not constantly eradicating violent posts, an accusation that Parler denied. However after every week during which Parler executives sued Amazon and predicted that their web site may by no means return, they’re forecasting it will likely be again up and working by the month’s finish.

That turnabout is thanks, partially, to a Russian firm.

Parler has entered into enterprise with DDoS-Guard, a Russian agency that routes web visitors and protects web sites from cyberattacks. With its assist, guests to Parler.com now discover a fundamental webpage with a promise from Parler’s chief govt, John Matze, that “our return is inevitable.”

However the usage of a Russian firm is worrying some researchers who examine the web and Russia. If Parler routes its internet visitors by DDoS-Guard when its full web site returns, the specialists mentioned, Russian regulation might allow the Russian authorities to surveil Parler’s customers.

Alina Polyakova, head of the Heart for European Coverage Evaluation, a international coverage suppose tank in Washington, mentioned Russia required many web corporations within the nation to set up expertise that feeds the federal government a replica of a lot of the info that passes by their pc servers.

The surveillance system, often called the System for Operative Investigative Actions, “mainly permits the Russian authorities to intercept any knowledge on Russian territory and supply that knowledge to the F.S.B.,” Russia’s home intelligence company, mentioned Ms. Polyakova, who has studied Russia’s management over the web. She added that it was unclear if DDoS-Guard could be topic to such surveillance.

The Russian Embassy in Washington and DDoS-Guard didn’t reply to requests for remark. In an e mail to CNN, DDoS-Guard mentioned it “doesn’t present any buyer data or every other knowledge to the federal government authorities, excluding instances explicitly acknowledged within the regulation.”

Jeffrey Wernick, Parler’s chief working officer, mentioned in an interview that the issues have been overblown as a result of DDoS-Guard supported solely a brief webpage for Parler. He mentioned Parler would attempt to discover different corporations to function its full social community.

“Our desire is to have an American agency,” he mentioned. “Folks mustn’t make conclusions that it’ll be this firm. Folks extrapolate an excessive amount of and with restricted data. They conclude what they need to conclude. I name that spreading misinformation.”

However discovering prepared companions has been a problem for Parler because the Capitol riot on Jan. 6.

After supporters of President Trump stormed the Capitol, Twitter and Fb barred Mr. Trump from their providers. That despatched a flood of recent individuals to Parler, pushing it previous 15 million customers. Then Apple and Google eliminated Parler’s app from their app shops and Amazon stopped internet hosting Parler’s web site on its servers as a result of, they mentioned, Parler was not constantly eradicating violent posts. As well as to denying these claims, Parler accused the businesses of collusion.

Since then, different corporations have rebuffed Parler. Mr. Matze mentioned in a courtroom submitting on Monday that “at the least six extraordinarily massive potential suppliers” refused to take Parler’s enterprise as a result of they feared cyberattacks or believed Parler hosted incitements to violence.

“Parler is an web firm that can’t get on the web,” Parler’s lawyer, David Groesbeck, mentioned in a separate submitting on Monday. “And the longer Parler lies useless, the tougher it will likely be to resuscitate.”

But in statements to the press, Parler executives are predicting a full return by the top of January. Mr. Wernick declined to say how Parler would do this, however he attributed the boldness to a “herculean effort” by his crew.

“We’re not sleeping,” he mentioned. “We’re working day and night time, and each day. There isn’t any weekend for us.”

For Parler, the perfect resolution could be returning to Amazon’s servers. The community has accused Amazon of violating antitrust regulation and requested a federal decide to drive it to host Parler. After a listening to final week, the businesses at the moment are awaiting a ruling.

Many on-line observers and journalists have speculated that Parler will ultimately be hosted by Epik, an organization that has supported different web sites that tech corporations have rejected, together with Gab, one other social community standard in right-wing circles.

However Robert Davis, Epik’s senior vp, mentioned in an interview that Epik had solely helped register Parler’s area title, a fundamental operate of the web. Whereas Epik would really like to assist, he mentioned, Parler’s wants are too massive.

“I might anticipate Parler to be a tremendous drive for good sooner or later,” he mentioned. “I might see them simply hitting 100 million members or extra in 2021 alone.”

Mr. Davis mentioned he believed that Parler was attempting to construct its personal infrastructure. On Monday, Mr. Matze appeared to help that notion in an interview on Fox Information, saying, “We actually want to construct our personal infrastructure and our personal expertise.”