Security News > 2021 > January > DDoS-Guard To Forfeit Internet Space Occupied by Parler

Now it appears DDoS-Guard is about to be relieved of more than two-thirds of the Internet address space the company leases to clients - including the Internet addresses currently occupied by Parler.

Much like Internet infrastructure firm CloudFlare, DDoS-Guard typically doesn't host sites directly but instead acts as a go-between to simultaneously keep the real Internet addresses of its clients confidential and to protect them from crippling Distributed Denial-of-Service attacks.

In studying the more than 11,000 Internet addresses assigned to those two companies, Guilmette found that approximately 66 percent of them were doled out to the Belize entity by LACNIC, the regional Internet registry for the Latin American and Caribbean regions.

The notice on its site says the Internet addresses are set to be revoked on Feb. 24.

In October, KrebsOnSecurity covered another revelation by Guilmette about the same group of QAnon and 8chan-related sites that moved to DDoS-Guard: The companies that provided the Internet address space used by the sites were defunct businesses in the eyes of their respective U.S. state regulators.

In other words, the American Registry for Internet Numbers - the non-profit which administers IP addresses for entities based in North America - was well within its contract rights to revoke the IP space.

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https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/01/ddos-guard-to-forfeit-internet-space-occupied-by-parler/