nicklim_trump_ddos.mp4
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Ah yes, vanwanet. Why do we hear so much of vanwanet lately?
Lets break this down. What happened when 8chan got kicked off cloudflare and needed ddos protection? They moved to alternative ddos mitigation service Bitmitigate, of course! But when 8chan had enough clout for Bitmitigates upstreams to kick them off and nearly destroy their business (), what were they to do?
Well, this really friendly fellow "Nicholas Lim" who founded (but no longer owns) Bitmitigate has started a new ddos protection service, vanwanet. However, after months of jumping around unreliable and slow russian hosting services (VDSina & DDOS-GUARD [VDSina being a subsidiary of ddos guard]), he realised in order to deliver his promise of bulletproof DDOS protection, he had to get his own hosting and network infrastructure.
With no publicity, no advertisement and a questionable track record, Nick spent thousands of dollars registering a ASN (AS398088), getting a /24 IPv4 allocation and buying high end servers. With 256 IPs at his disposal, and servers in a single facility with 1 peer (https://bgp.he.net/AS398088), while claiming to have infrastructure in "Over 200 Countries and Territories" (https://archive.is/GfUiD#selection-163.0-167.34), Nick had everything he needed.
Given the circumstances and the cost, why would Nick do this in the first place? Sounds like a good business opportunity to me. Ask yourself, who has a lot of money to invest, a need for DDOS protection, and an understanding of network and internet infrastructure? Did somebody say Jim Watkins? The owner of a dying 8chan? Remember, this is around October 2019. Meet customer No. 0
As the months went on, wouldn't it be a coincidence that a deplatforming campaign was started by the totally real "Esther M. Aronowitz" , when is is known from leaked slack logs that Jim uses stereotypical names and personas? https://archive.is/maMl9 https://archive.is/OtNiV
And wouldn't it just be a coincidence that 8kun, 8chan.moe, and other customers of vanwanet don't have to deal with the same spam, the same attacks, the same trash that has popped up and plagued the webring ever since it ripped the imageboard community out of the stranglehold that was a cucked late state 8chan? After all, one of Nick's most famous stunts to get business for bitmitigate was to record a video of himself DDOS'ing trump.com and suggesting trump subscribe to his protection service.
Why is vanwanet is shilled so hard, that Nick works so closely with Jim and that the webring has suffered relentless attacks ever since 8chan started to slip? So let me ask again, why do we hear so much of vanwanet lately? Who could be trying to profit from all this?