Russian site owners changing location in profile from Russia to Ukraine(linux.org.ru)

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Russian site owners changing location in profile from Russia to Ukraine

https://www.linux.org.ru/forum/talks/16804849?cid=16804989

3 comments

Russian members of Russia's Linux User Group discussing results of sanctions on sites registered in Russia or where location of owner is set to Russia region.[0]

Some users stated that just changed location in site owners profile to "Kyiv, Ukraine" to avoid bans & access blocking:

> ну ок. сменил страну в профиле на украину, а город на киев.[1]

Translation:

> ah, ok. changed in profile country to Ukraine, and city to Kyiv[1]

[0] https://www.linux.org.ru/forum/talks/16804849

[1] https://www.linux.org.ru/forum/talks/16804849?cid=16804989

sysOpOpPERAND4 anni fa

i am surprised .ru is not temporarily blocked. email providers could refuse to allow .ru addresses and that would affect those who are not complete computer savvy, for the record i have no issues with the russian people who are anti-war but, i think the message has to get across that the path that is currently going with regards to ukraine is a dead end.

i could imagine a ton of services being interrupted if .ru was banned by major/minor email providers

kweingar4 anni fa

This seems like an obvious solution to a geography-based ban. They'll have to use a VPN, but lots of people have learned to do this to watch region-locked media.

I wonder whether they'll be caught. Seems like it would be a pretty resource intensive process for a service provider to detect this without picking up a lot of false positives (i.e. people who moved out of Russia and updated their profiles after getting the initial email). Either way, this is only buying time, as these site owners will not be able to make payments easily. My guess is that many of them will migrate to Russia-based providers in the coming weeks and months, and just wanted to work around Namecheap's six day notice.