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The Severed Host: How a Single-Day, Four-Jurisdiction Takedown Erased ZServers From the Routing Table
On February 11, 2025, the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada designated the Barnaul bulletproof host ZServers on the same day while investigators seized roughly 127 servers. The same atlas query that mapped a live sanctioned network in May returns nothing here, and the absence is the entire story.
Turkmenistan routes its entire population through six autonomous systems whose only exits run through Russian and Azerbaijani transit, and cross-referenced against the world's consolidated sanctions registers the country appears just seven times, six of those for other countries' programs entirely.
The chain from a Covent Garden mail-forwarding address to AS52000 traces through a UK shell company, two Moldovan nationals, and a hosting brand called PQ Hosting, all sitting under EU sanctions for 367 days before Dutch police acted.
