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Re:Update to Microsoft Takedown – Domains Fully Restored by dublinben on Tuesday July 08, 2014 @10:21AM (#8004623)
Good point. I just figured they might have preferred to run their own DDNS service, or use p2p, since as we've seen, a service as large as No-IP can be completely shut down in a situation like this.
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Re:Update to Microsoft Takedown – Domains Fully Restored by nucleardog on Wednesday July 09, 2014 @09:20PM (#8013108)
It can be shutdown, but with a lot more difficulty than just getting some random server somewhere used only for the botnet pulled offline, which was probably the point, really.

If I were a malware author I would never have assumed anyone could have gotten a court order to take an entire service offline.

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