On 31st July 2019, internet users within Kazakhstan experienced a show of dismay unseen before. Suddenly, hundreds of website could not be accessed. The first report was seen to be made by Manshuq Media on Facebook where they explained the issue in a post as seen below:
The post translated from Kazakh.
This came forward when two IP address filters implemented by Kazakhstan Telecom were seen in their infrastructure. These were identified as belonging to a client-hosted with a Russian website builder named Tilda Publishing (tilda.cc).
In response, Tilda made an announcement asking their users to point their website to 194.4.58.39 which is the IP address belonging to a commercial hosting provider, namely Hoster.kz.
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Then finally on the 1st of August, the reason behind the filter blocking move was revealed. Kazakh Telecom stated that Tilda’s servers hosted a pornographic website named rainbow-spa.kz with 2 IP addresses: 185.165.123.206 and 185.165.123.36.
This was done due to the issuance of a court order to take the site down. As it can be understood, the blocking of the above IP addresses would only result in the blocking of other websites if the above 2 happened to be domain name servers rather than static IPs specifically for the rainbow site.
Hence because a variety of domains point to the same domain name servers on ..
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