Elsevier Complaint Shuts Down Sci-Hub Domain Name

Re:Elsevier Complaint Shuts Down Sci-Hub Domain Name by Fuxy on Thursday May 05, 2016 @11:17AM (#11636843)

Accessing the ip posted in the article it shows the bitcoin address posted by the OP.

I even switch over to https to make sure the request is not modified.

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Re:Elsevier Complaint Shuts Down Sci-Hub Domain Name by finnn on Thursday May 05, 2016 @11:32AM (#11636982)

>switching to https

They don't even have a valid certificate for that domain.

BUT interestingly, on a US (DO NYC) server or my house (US/Comcast):

  $ curl http://sci-hub.cc/donate
  <p>Please donate to Bitcoin: 14ghuGKDAPdEcUQN4zuzGwBUrhQgACwAyA</p>%

however, on a French (OVH) server:

  $ curl http://sci-hub.cc/donate
  <!DOCTYPE html>
  <html>
      <head>
  {cut for brevity, a fair amount of HTML here}
  <p>Please send donations to bitcoin wallet: 1K4t2vSBSS2xFjZ6PofYnbgZewjeqbG1TM</p>
  {more HTML}

DNS reports that the domain's IP is 31.184.194.81 from all tested locations. I get the HTML page with the 1K4t address over tor as well

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Re:Elsevier Complaint Shuts Down Sci-Hub Domain Name by iamnothere on Thursday May 05, 2016 @12:02PM (#11637240)

Tested from US university IP, I also get the 1K4t wallet address. Maybe a caching issue with the CDN (assuming they use one)?

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Re:Elsevier Complaint Shuts Down Sci-Hub Domain Name by finnn on Thursday May 05, 2016 @12:15PM (#11637379)

Which university? I tried from the University of Washington and got the 14gh address

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Re:Elsevier Complaint Shuts Down Sci-Hub Domain Name by niij on Thursday May 05, 2016 @10:00PM (#11641179)

I am getting the same thing. Midwest US ISP is getting 14ghu and french (free.fr) server is getting 1K4t2v

Appears to be some sort of caching issue. Archive.org shows sci-hub.org with 1K4t2v from 2015[0]

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20150810074804/http://www.sci-hu...

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