The cases of adding CloudFlare CDN-service internet addresses to the unified registry of prohibited information have become more frequent. This is related to the active use of the above service by sites which violate Russian law. During attempts to ascertain the hosting provider of these websites, whois reveals ip addresses belonging to CloudFlare, hiding information about the whereabouts of the hosting provider of the actual site.
This makes cooperation of the ROSKOMNADZOR[1] with the actual hosting provider difficult and basically eliminates the possibility of removing illegal information in order to restore access to blocked resources.
CloudFlare representatives refuse to cooperate and do not respond to official notifications by ROSKOMNADZOR.
As a result of CloudFlare's lack of response, many conscientious internet resources using this CDN-service are falling under[2] blocking restrictions by ISPs on Russian Federation territory.
To avoid similar problems, we recommend hosting websites using the facilities of domestic hosting providers, which comply with Russian legislation in good faith and restrict access, in a timely manner, to internet resources containing information whose dissemination in the Russian Federation is banned.
[1] Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass Communications (ROSKOMNADZOR)
[2] Unclear from the text whether this already happened or will happen
The cases of adding CloudFlare CDN-service internet addresses to the unified registry of prohibited information have become more frequent. This is related to the active use of the above service by sites which violate Russian law. During attempts to ascertain the hosting provider of these websites, whois reveals ip addresses belonging to CloudFlare, hiding information about the whereabouts of the hosting provider of the actual site.
This makes cooperation of the ROSKOMNADZOR[1] with the actual hosting provider difficult and basically eliminates the possibility of removing illegal information in order to restore access to blocked resources.
CloudFlare representatives refuse to cooperate and do not respond to official notifications by ROSKOMNADZOR.
As a result of CloudFlare's lack of response, many conscientious internet resources using this CDN-service are falling under[2] blocking restrictions by ISPs on Russian Federation territory.
To avoid similar problems, we recommend hosting websites using the facilities of domestic hosting providers, which comply with Russian legislation in good faith and restrict access, in a timely manner, to internet resources containing information whose dissemination in the Russian Federation is banned.
[1] Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass Communications (ROSKOMNADZOR)
[2] Unclear from the text whether this already happened or will happen