I've noticed a massive uptick in the last 24-hours in orders from Russia. Hopefully it's related to this and not a fraud ring.

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And finally...yeah, at times when I admin'd web hosting, I did block some countries because I knew that (a) no one from China, Russia, etc. had any legitimate interest, and (b) I'd get 50+ hack attem

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Well, the RKN here in Russia has a poor reputation of overpowered organization run by extremely incompetent and shortsighted people. They are famous for trying to block localhost (that is, entire 127/

How Russia government decides which data center ranges to ban?

In before, Russnet, Russia only internet.

The Russians do also ignore the real problems and live in some double standard world; on the RIPE mailing list first - days before the ban - move of RIPE to eg. Moscow as it would be "way che

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Tested: my VPS from Veesp.com in Russia can still connect to Online successfully. Maybe @veesp could provide some special offer on this great marketing opportunity.

Russia really is shooting themselves in the foot.

Why do you say this? I definitely don't support what Russia and China do, but I think there is a naive (mis)understanding in the West about the social contract that binds Russians and Chinese to their

"Russia isn't a communist country, we watch Netflix, YouTube just like America"

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