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Re:Kiwi Farms is down across all domains as DDoS-Guard termi... by _dain_ on Monday September 05, 2022 @05:03PM (#32729445)
CF outright blocked the KF domain, they didn't just rescind DDoS protection.

and deliberately not protecting a paying customer as they are attacked by DDoSing criminals is just censorship by another name. it's a critical piece of infrastructure; large sites just can't survive on the modern internet without it. it's like if the police and fire services announced they wouldn't protect a specific house from roving packs of arsonists.

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Re:Kiwi Farms is down across all domains as DDoS-Guard termi... by ce4 on Monday September 05, 2022 @05:31PM (#32729745)
Well, no, that's not how it works. They stopped business with KF by not forwarding traffic to the protected/secret origin anymore, thats how reverse proxies work. The owner of the domain is free to update their DNS records and point it to another CDN or even the unprotected origin
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Re:Kiwi Farms is down across all domains as DDoS-Guard termi... by e2le on Monday September 05, 2022 @06:27PM (#32730246)
> CF outright blocked the KF domain

They might be referring to CF also being the domain registrar for KF.

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