Operators of child pornography Web sites can use computer servers in different countries around the world and set up new sites at little cost when their sites on one server are shut down.
Then a similar server was shut down in Panama, leaving only a working server in Russia.
You should also note that my friend running an IRC server was shut down by an attack from a kid in Australia.
That site, hosted on Arizona servers, was shut down by the FBI last week.
It is possible that the some of the effect might be due to Web servers being shut down over the extended holiday season when most of the measurements were made.
In my case, the addresses pointed to Excite@Home's proxy servers; once those servers were shut down and stopped handling my Web requests, the addresses in my HOSTS file were no longer valid.
For most requests, however, the fraudsters' DNS servers returned legitimate results.When the subverted DNS servers are shut down, the user's browser no longer knows where to send page requests and other internet software will be baffled as well, at least until a user employs "rootkit removal software", reinstalls Windows or reconfigures the router.
The app was eventually open sourced as the team went to work on the ill-fated Google Wave, and Etherpad's servers were shut down.
The app gained popularity during street protests in Hong Kong and other places, since users can chat using the app without the fear of its servers being shut down or interrupted by the authorities.
My one business day extended over the weekend, and on Monday when I wasn't able to produce the documentation Amazon wanted (or even get someone from the RIAA on the phone), the servers were shut down and I was locked out of the account.
A massively multiplayer online role-playing game called Dragon Ball Online was available in Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan until the servers were shut down in 2013.
