The end of verygoodsoftwarenotvirus.ru
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82 points by verygoodsoftwarenotvirus
A fun old Google story: many years ago, the team that identified malware had some piece that rolled up domains, so if e.g. foo.bar.com and foo2.bar.com had enough pages and other subdomains with malware it would mark the parent bar.com as malware. They found it tried to roll up .ru as malware as a whole and maybe had to fix it to not mark tlds.
unfortunately this is the price you pay when you get ccTLDs in other countries, you're subject to their whim
Nervously looks at URL bar.
Yeah it's probably a good idea to have a backup domain if Serbia decides to tighten their rules.
luckily, we have https://lobsters.dev (https://lobste.rs/about#trivia), and so far Serbia appears to be friendly to domainhacking
Yes, but another thing that comes to mind is all the brits who lost their .eu domains (also a ccTLD) when the UK left the EU and they were no longer eligible.
And yet many do it: Notion was making me rage not too long ago with its seemingly botched .so migration. I wonder if they still have anything running primarily on their .so domain.
I remember hearing/reading about companies with .ly domains that ran afoul of Libyan law and got taken down.
All great stories, but nothing will ever top that time the queer.af mastodon instance got shut down by the Taliban: https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/12/24071036/queer-af-mastodon-taliban-shut-down-afghanistan
I hope.
Some good Samaritan in Russia should rescue this domain for him. I know someone must be reading this from Russia right now, it could be you!
I got partway through this feeling happy for you and then started properly laughing to myself in the pub. This is brilliant shithousery of the highest order.
I also encountered struggles with maintaining my Russian domain, but I found a way out. Feel free to DM me if you want to know the details!
Sorry, I have grown up visiting way too many .ru websites and I'm not sure if I got the joke fully. Is it somehow related to Russian hackers?
yeah, if you grew up or lived in Russia, this was just our regular tld. I am only realising now that to people in the US/elsewhere, it must have showed up primarily when they saw weird traffic.
I was hoping for the Russian Joke (TM) version along the lines of:
"In the West, you hack the domain, but in Russia the domain hacks you"
When the registration lapses in December, the domain stops being mine, and so does the evidence that it ever was. Somebody will pick it up and probably put scam ads for boner pills on it. Sorry in advance.
Kind of a beautiful end. verygoodsoftwarenotvirus.ru will, at last, become a sketchy site distributing malware.
There’s something appropriately on-brand about a story bracketed by two machine-generated records. A whois entry at one end and a Wayback capture at the other.
Extremely. I love that.