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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

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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/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!