Internet sanctions don't seem rational

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Internet sanctions don't seem rational
by Shorts
08-Aug-2009
 

Unfortunately in the past few days the American company "cPanel" which distributes control panel software for websites and servers has started a new round of action against websites and servers either connected to Iranian users, or currently hosting Iranian accounts. They have started to revoke their licenses and cease providing any services to such users and this has created numerous problems for ordinary Iranian web service providers who are almost all non-governmental.

One such incident of three days ago consisted of revoking the license of one server that was hosting over 500 Iranians sites and weblogs including at least 150 which are directly owned by reformists in Iran, and all are currently unable to get any work done. These sites include Nowrooz, Kalameh (as of this writing), Kalameh Sabz, Moje sevom, etc... they generally include weblogs fof well known reformist figures. The main IP of this server is 75.125.160.162 but because up to now there has been an effort to hide this server's information from the establishment, its better that it be considered now so that more problems aren't created for these sites from the inside.

It's crucial to mention that over 75% of control panels of websites and blogs of Iran (and the world) are from cPanel, and as mentioned before, this company has a history of closing Iranian websites with the excuse of sanctions against Iran, and for a few years now, no Iranian hosting service has succeeded in using the services of a known North American data center for longer than a year. These hosting services were forced to constantly change their physical location and use faked identifications.

Because the majority of the sites belonging to the Iranian government situated in Iran use internal software, continuing this kind of behavior doesn't seem rational and this trend will cause huge problems in the process of information dissemination from non-governmental sites in Iran.

With Respect

H.M.


متاسفانه طی چند روز گذشته شرکت cPanel آمریکا (cpanel.net) که ارائه دهنده نرم‌افزارهای کنترل پنل سایت و سرور است در دور تازه‌ای از اقدامات خود علیه وب سایت‌ها و سرورهایی که منتصب به کاربران ایرانی هستند و یا از آنها میزبانی می‌کنند شروع به حذف لایسنس و قطع خدمات خود به این نوع کاربران کرده است که مشکلات فراوانی را برای خدمات دهندگان وب، سایتهای عادی و اطلاع رسانی که تقریبا همه آنها غیر دولتی هستند ایجاد کرده است.

 در یکی از این اقدام‌ها سه روز قبل با حذف لایسنس سروری که میزبان بیش از500 سایت و وبلاگ ایرانی است که حداقل 150 عدد از آنها مستقیما متعلق به اصلاح طلبان ایران هستند آنها در آستانه از کار افتادن کامل قرار گرفته‌اند از جمله سایتهای نوروز، کلمه (تا زمان کار)، کلمه سبز، موج سوم و ... و اکثر وبلاگ‌های چهره‌های شاخص اصلاح طلب. IPاصلی این سرور 75.125.160.162 است اما چون تا به حال سعی شده است اطلاعات این سرور از حاکمیت مخفی بماند بهتر است این موضوع مد نظر قرارگیرد تا مشکلات بیشتری از سمت داخل برای این سایتها ایجاد نشود.

لازم به ذکراست بیش از 75 درصد کنترل‌پنل‌های وب سایت‌ها و وبلاگهای ایرانی (و دنیا) متعلق به شرکت cPanel است و همانطور که اشاره شد این شرکت به بهانه تحریم ایران سابقه بدی در بستن سایت‌ها و سرورهای ایرانی دارد به طوری که در چند سال اخیرهیچ میزبان ایرانی موفق نشده است بیش از یک سال از خدمات یک دیتاسنتر مشخص در آمریکای شمالی استفاده کند و به طور دائم مجبور به تغییر مکان فیزیکی و مجازی به طور مخفیانه و با هویت‌های جعلی بوده‌اند.

چون اکثر وب سایت‌های متعلق به دولت و حکومت ایران در داخل ایران میزبانی و از نرم‌افزارهای داخلی استفاده می‌کنند ادامه این نوع برخودها با کاربران ایرانی چندان منطقی به نظر نمی‌رسد و ادامه این روند مشکلات زیادی را در روند اطلاع رسانی وب سایتهای غیردولتی ایرانی ایجاد خواهد کرد.

با احترام

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Also thank you AK for the contact info.

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We should all convey our feelings on this matter to the company directly.

cPanel Inc
PO Box 307
White Haven PA 18661-0307
United States of America

Phone: +1-570-606-4795
Fax: +1-570-443-9600

//www.cpanel.net/contact.html

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by Jahanshah Javid on

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If anything, the democracy movement in Iran owes its vitality and endurance to the Internet. Taking it away would be the greatest service to the Islamic Republic.


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