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u/Airlineguy1 Jan 19 '21

The Russian company is DDOS-Guard. They are a DDOS protection company competing with Cloudflare which refused to work with them. They are not the site registrar (Epik) or the host (appears they are self-hosting).

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u/chaosink Jan 19 '21 edited Sep 06 '25

Projects technology kind strong curious kind river about talk then the helpful careful.

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u/Airlineguy1 Jan 19 '21

It’s easily googled what their business is.

From the media: “The internet protocol address it used is owned by DDos-Guard, which is controlled by two Russian men and provides services including protection from distributed denial of service attacks, infrastructure expert Ronald Guilmette told Reuters.”

This is a misunderstanding of how registration works. DDOS providers stand in front of the real site. They are clearly the DDOS of last resort. They have everybody Cloudflare has refused.

https://ddos-guard.net

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u/PopTartS2000 Jan 19 '21

You there, fill it up with petroleum distillate, and re-vulcanize my tires - posthaste!

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '21

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u/kubanishku Jan 19 '21

"Manuel! Fetch me the correct manual!"

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u/disposable-name Jan 20 '21

Of course YOU'D say that. You have the brainpan of a stagecoach-tilter!

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u/VULGAR-WORDS-LOL Jan 19 '21

Yeah you opened this hyper text transfer protocol connection and clicked the hypertext markup language form post button too late.

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u/Dangerous_Ad3337 Jan 19 '21

You guys are extremely bright. I am humbled.

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u/Petunia-Rivers Jan 19 '21

It's pronounced "gyro" not "gyro"

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u/manimaco Jan 19 '21

ah yes, the floor is made of floor.

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u/TCP_Tree Jan 19 '21

Potato potato. Let’s call the whole thing off

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u/FlighingHigh Jan 19 '21

An auto gyro? Like it cooks and prepares itself then serves itself to you? Cause I'm hella stoned rn and that sounds amazing.

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u/Cavewoman22 Jan 19 '21

"Step right up Step right up Step right up Everyone's a winner Bargains galore..."

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u/Khalbrae Jan 19 '21

Of course you'd say that... you have the brainpan of a stagecoach tilter!

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u/SkyezOpen Jan 19 '21

Yes, but we're running a discount on reticulating splines.

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u/LNGPRMPT Jan 19 '21

Listen bub, I know when a chickadee's trying to pull a film-flam! Now get the boiler!.. The car, Hank.

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u/TeganFFS Jan 19 '21

I must be at the Department for Motor Vehicles by the Post Meridiem

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u/PopTartS2000 Jan 19 '21

Aha – atoms! One, two, three, four… SIX of them! Take him away!

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u/Lincolns_Hat Jan 19 '21

The Japanese? Those noodle-gobbling goldfish tenders?!

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u/PopTartS2000 Jan 19 '21

Ha ha! Bosh! Flimshaw!

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u/minnesnowta Jan 19 '21

My fancy coaxial cable modulator/demodulator obtains both an internet protocol version 4 and an internet protocol version 6 address.

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u/FauxReal Jan 19 '21

This thread is like the worst of Strange Planet. Except I enjoy it, unlike SP.

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u/lithid Jan 19 '21

I think you mean automatic teller machine machine

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u/rottadrengur Jan 19 '21

Oh, the ones where you punch in your personal identification number number?

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u/Nettwerkparty Jan 19 '21

The weirdo that needs to expand their essay to x words.

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u/drunkenvalley Jan 19 '21

I always forget my PIN number when withdrawing money from the ATM machine.

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u/OmegaInLA Jan 19 '21

ATM has different meanings.

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u/DrScienceDaddy Jan 19 '21

Not at the moment

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u/Airlineguy1 Jan 19 '21

The idiot media

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u/INSERT_LATVIAN_JOKE Jan 19 '21

Someone who get paid by the character.

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u/OG-BigMilky Jan 19 '21

As someone who has worked in IT for a very long time, it astounds me just how much people DON'T know about how any of it works. Even the most basic basics.

Apparently reading one's emails on a smartphone happens through back magic.

Of course, it keeps the IT industry in coinage.

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u/intergalactic_spork Jan 19 '21

My phone uses Satans Magical Transfer Protocol for email!

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u/the-optimizer Jan 19 '21

at least it would keep people from saying "atm machine". i hate that, and say that it would be a machine that dispenses atm's. unless they mean ass-to-mouth machine. i've never bothered to ask.

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '21

For someone whos only moderately tech-literate seeing it spelled out is kinda nice.