Does Russia have a secret domain blocking technology?
News on 19 Oct 2018
News on 19 Oct 2018
Russia’s notoriously ban-happy telecommunications regulator Roskomnadzor is working on a new filtering technology in its fight to deny Russians access to international online gambling websites, if a recent speech by its chief, Alexander Zharov, is anything to go by.
According to the official news agency Tass, Zharov briefed a meeting of federal lawmakers on the new technology, without giving too much away but revealing that implementation is planned within the next year, and that “a completely new system of filtering and blocking content” would be a dramatic game changer in Roskomnadzor’s favour.
In the meantime the regulator will continue to purge illegal internet activity through mass domain blocking tactics, which do not thus far appear to have been effective despite 90,000 or more domains banned this year alone..
Technically, the regulator has just completed an update of its enforcement measures via a switch to Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) in an effort to improve performance of the preceding IPv4 (see previous reports).
News on 19 Oct 2018
Russia’s notoriously ban-happy telecommunications regulator Roskomnadzor is working on a new filtering technology in its fight to deny Russians access to international online gambling websites, if a recent speech by its chief, Alexander Zharov, is anything to go by.
According to the official news agency Tass, Zharov briefed a meeting of federal lawmakers on the new technology, without giving too much away but revealing that implementation is planned within the next year, and that “a completely new system of filtering and blocking content” would be a dramatic game changer in Roskomnadzor’s favour.
In the meantime the regulator will continue to purge illegal internet activity through mass domain blocking tactics, which do not thus far appear to have been effective despite 90,000 or more domains banned this year alone..
Technically, the regulator has just completed an update of its enforcement measures via a switch to Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) in an effort to improve performance of the preceding IPv4 (see previous reports).
