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Operation “Hydra slay” ongoing
It seems dmca moguls performing their largest domain shutdown operation ever in recorded internet history. Unlimited geographic reach granted to aim at and eradicate so called “pirate hydra”.
More info: https://torrentfreak.com/mass-pirate-site-domain-suspensions-aim-to-slay-the-streaming-hydra-251008/
Take a look at domain provider list. Mostly namecheap.
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Use shit extensions, get serverHold...
What domains are safe from this shit?
This precedent shows that there is no safe domains or safe registrars at all. At current situation India legal system was utilized to obtain unlimited geographical reach injunction to block multiple domains and do it very fast (within few days). Of course there is thousands of "hydra" domains, but eventually with such universal injunctions and ISP + registrars lenient view on injunctions, "hydra" will loose all their heads.
Whack-a-mole getting tight, but still resistance to dmca moguls continue.
Interesting that they all use Cloudflare nameservers. The blocking is done at ISP level, do they block just the DNS lookups for that name? If you have encrypted DNS lookups, does it go through? Do they block all traffic to IP address where the website is hosted?
I still think it wouldn't be hard to get around it because India can't seize the domains, only block access if they know what's being requested. When all the traffic is encrypted they can't do much.
Edit: ran the PDF through claude and got this:
Total distinct IPs: 362 (from 467 total entries)
IP addresses show concentration on Cloudflare infrastructure (104.21.x.x and 172.67.x.x ranges)
Domain Name Registrars - Domain Count
Total: 23 registrars managing 196 domains
Interestingly there is one .st domain: hdmovie2.st