As someone on the Wikipediocracy forums pointed out, basemetrika.ru does not exist. I get an NXDomain response trying to resolve it. The plot thickens.
As someone on the Wikipediocracy forums pointed out, basemetrika.ru does not exist. I get an NXDomain response trying to resolve it. The plot thickens.
Yeah, basemetrika.ru is free now. Should we occupy it? ;)
I registered it about 40 minutes ago, but it seems the DNS has been cached by everyone as a result of the wikipedia hack & not even the NS is propagating. Can't get an SSL certificate .
nice work
I had looked into its availability too just out of curiosity itself before reading your comment on a provider, Then I read your comment. Atleast its taken in from the hackernews community and not a malicious actor.
Do keep us updated on the whole situation if any relevant situation can happen from your POV perhaps.
I'd suggest to give the domain to wikipedia team as they might know what could be the best use case of it if possible.
This community has no malicious actors? :)
I'm not malicious at least :)
Pretty public with who I am https://duti.dev/
Not quite sure which channels I should reach out via but I've put my email on the page so they can contact me.
Based on timings, it seems that Wikipedia wasn't really at risk from the domain being bought as everything was resolved before NS records could propagate. I got 1 hit from the URL which would've loaded up the script and nothing since.
Namecheap won’t sell it which is great because it made me pause and wonder whether it's legal for an American to send Russians money for a TLD.
Namecheap is Ukrainian, of course they won't sell you a .ru domain.
Is it? Wikipedia says:
> Namecheap is a U.S. based domain name registrar and web hosting service company headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona.
and in 2025 they were purchased by:
> CVC Capital Partners plc is a Jersey-based private equity and investment advisory firm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30504812
Top comment is from the CEO and explains: "We have people on the ground in Ukraine being bombarded now non stop."
I'm not questioning whether or not they have Ukrainian employees, I'm questioning the statement "Namecheap is Ukrainian". That post+comment does not address that. McDonalds has employees in Vietnam but McDonalds is not Vietnamese.
I remember that in 2022 a sizeable part of their workforce was located in Ukraine. Too lazy to search for proof, sorry!
It is. Just punch it's name in the search box down below.
Pretty sure it is, however, the reverse is actually illegal (for US citizens to provide professional services to anyone residing in Russia) as of like 2022-ish
I'm half-tempted to try and claim it myself for fun and profit, but I think I'll leave it for someone else.
What should we put there, anyway?
A JavaScript call to window.alert to pause the JavaScript VM.
Looks like someone other from the hackernews community has bought the domain https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47263323#47265499
Go old school and have the script inject the "how did this get here im not good with computers" cat onto random pages
I'd log requests and echo them back in the page
The antinuke
It means giving money to the Russian government, so no.
If anyone from the Russian government is reading this, get the fuck out of Ukraine. Thank you.
Well done, it's finally over
"In 2023, the United States imported U3O8 and equivalents primarily from Canada, Australia, Russia, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan. The origin of U3O8 used in U.S. nuclear reactors could change in the coming years. In May 2024, the United States banned imports of uranium products from Russia beginning in August, although companies may apply for waivers through January 1, 2028."
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=64444
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If anyone is genuinely curious about this, they were indeed letting Russian gas through and stopped in 2025:
> On 1 January 2025, Ukraine terminated all Russian gas transit through its territory, after the contract between Gazprom and Naftohaz signed in 2019 expired. [...] It is estimated that Russia will lose around €5bn a year as a result.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia%E2%80%93Ukraine_gas_dis...
You must be fun at parties
They're a ... gas.
More fun than GP lol
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I don't think voting with your wallet constitutes virtue signaling, especially at a time when end user boycotting is one of the universally known methods of protest.
I am a pragmatist so maybe I will never understand this line of thinking. But in my mind, there are no perfect options, including doing nothing.
By doing nothing, you are allowing a malicious actor to buy the domain. In fact I am sure they would love for everyone else to be paralyzed by purity tests for a $1 domain.
All things being equal, yeah don’t buy a .ru domain. But they are not equal.