We should note these are not even slightly legitimate hosting companies, lest anyone worry too much about their non-KYC offshore servers. These aren't hosting companies that ask little, they are just directly front companies for Russian intelligence, owned by members of Russian intelligence, they don't do anything else, they don't provide hosting service to regular people even if you want it (I have tried).

Unlike in Germany where I lost several social media accounts because my email service provider (pissmail) went to jail because someone signed up for his service and sent spam.

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orbital-decay an hour ago | parent | next [-]

>they don't provide hosting service to regular people even if you want it (I have tried)

That doesn't sound right. I used PQ.Hosting once when I needed a quick temporary VPS, just like many other legitimate users. Yes they never asked much, but they also used to ban users left and right even for torrenting, so it wasn't bulletproof in any meaningful sense. I'm sure they were into shady stuff though, since their IP quality used to be absolute crap, but they did provide legitimate services as well.

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l23k4 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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locknitpicker an hour ago | parent [-]

> The article literally has photos of their english-language customer-facing communications.

Providing a website is hardly evidence they were a legitimate business.

	▲	l23k4 8 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		>Providing a website is hardly evidence they were a legitimate business. legitimate business? Of course they weren't. This is a bulletproof hoster specializing in offering hosting to people doing illegal stuff. That's not OPs claim. You can go on the website and rent a server for a couple of dollars in cryptocurrency right now, you don't have to work for the Russian government to do so.

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nalekberov 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Any source to back up your claims? Otherwise it seemed pretty much a conspiracy theory to me.

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consp 2 hours ago | parent [-]

The company inherited all their customers and equipment from a sanctioned company (according to the Dutch news report). Should be enough for most people.

	▲	chatmasta 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That just means the sanctioned company was selling to sanctioned entities, not that it was only selling to them.