One last vestige of the media frenzy that surrounded Lewiston last year is scheduled to go on the auction block in January.

The Internet registration for savelewiston.com, a Web site posted by white supremacists last year, expired on Oct. 25. The site featured anti-Somali cartoons and posted links to the National Alliance, a national white-pride organization.

City officials and organizers of anti-racist rallies said Friday they had no plans to try and claim the name.

“I don’t think it has positive implications,” said Phil Nadeau, assistant city administrator. “I don’t think Lewiston really needs saving. I think we’re doing pretty well now.”

Kate Brennan, a member of the Many and One Coalition, said it could be a sign that neo-Nazis are not as interested in Lewiston as they once were.

“It could mean they never had much going on in Lewiston,” Brennan said. “Or it could mean that the Web site was not their most effective organizing tool.”

The savelewiston.com domain was owned by an Alaskan group, “Uncle Whitey’s Records.” The Web site appeared almost a month after Mayor Larry Raymond’s letter to the Somalis asking them to stem their migration to Lewiston.

The National Alliance was one of two white supremacist groups that targeted Lewiston after the letter. Another, the World Church of the Creator, held a Jan. 11 rally in Lewiston.

The Web pages for the savelewiston.com Web site disappeared in September. The Oct. 25 registration date passed without the group reclaiming the name.

The original owners have until Dec. 10 to re-register with directNIC, a domain-name registration company. If they do, registration will cost $15.

Between December and Jan. 10, the price to register goes up to $185. Uncle Whitey’s Records loses all claims to the name after Jan. 15.

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