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Re:Amazon threatens to suspend Signal's AWS account over cen... by Matt3o12_ on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @01:42AM (#16974370)
Except that amazon is not the one paying, it is quad.com (or some other domain they’re piggybacking on) who has to pay for the DNS traffic. If my $3 side project suddenly became a $1000 side project I’d be pissed too. I like what signal is doing but that should not be making others pay for it. Ideally amazon would help them do that but that don’t.
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Re:Amazon threatens to suspend Signal's AWS account over cen... by ForHackernews on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @04:43AM (#16975082)
> Except that amazon is not the one paying, it is quad.com

It's souq.com, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Amazon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Souq.com It's an e-commerce site targeted at the middle east that Amazon bought as their play for that market.

Signal deliberately chose it because it's an Amazon domain, so governments would be reluctant to block it.

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Re:Amazon threatens to suspend Signal's AWS account over cen... by edaemon on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @02:55AM (#16974727)
That may be true but Signal is purposely using high-profile domains, not someone's small side project.
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