The former Soviet Union’s domain traffic is driven by a botnet.
Last month, Cloudflare launched a new section in Cloudflare Radar that ranks top level domains by their “DNS Magnitude”, which is a measure of how many unique clients send queries to the TLD.
The company made the surprising filing that the Soviet Union’s legacy domain, .su, has a higher DNS Magnitude than even .com.
But looking into the data further, the top second level domains driving traffic in .su were a couple of strange domains, such as 14emeliaterracewestroxburyma02132 .su.
Well, it turns out these domains are being used in a botnet.
Cloudflare began redacting these domains from its SLD list, and they appear to have been fully removed. But the data is still showing up in its TLD lists. .Su is currently ranked #7, and the list is led by .st, which also has a domain used in the botnet.
This sounds like just another anti-Russia hit piece – anyone with their eyes open can see plenty of those around these days. IF there is one or even a few .su domains using bots, why write an article that could likely be interpreted that many/most/all .su domains are driven by bots?
Nobody cares about Russia, Rob.
That’s precisely the problem. While people switch off their brains and hence become easily brainwashed, your are being robbed via taxes to send weapons to Europe to attack another country, for which there will be huge world wide ramifications when/if a huge war results. Keeping heads in the sand has worked until now but will stop working in future.
But it’s all good. I’m just pointing out how your mind is potentially being manipulated.