Quick facts about Bluelight
by Catch-22 and johnboy
Why does Bluelight's address have a "ru" at the end? What does "ru" mean?
Some countries have their own domain suffix (.uk is the UK and .au is Australia). "ru" is for Russia.
correct, they are in Holland.xxl said:I see. But it doesn't mean the servers or the data are kept in Russia. Because I wouldn't trust Russia to be very respectful of privacy.
Infinite Jest said:e.g. kmart has bluelight.com.
Kmart became known for its "Blue Light Specials." They occurred at surprise moments when a store worker would light up a mobile police light and offer a discount in a specific department of the store. The phrase "attention Kmart shoppers" also entered into the American pop psyche.
I'm not very up to date regarding domain attributions. I thought the last extension in a URL always indicated a country of one of the "accepted" domaines like .com and .edufelix said:we weren't based in Niue either when we were on the .nu domain...
Infinite Jest said:I think .nu just got weird (too expensive or too insecure or something) but I wasn't here at the time.
I Found the Domain name Registration in the site http://www.tucktail.com/This may seem a naive question but ".ru" means Russia. Now as I understand BL is hosted in the Netherlands.
I think .nu just got weird (too expensive or too insecure or something) but I wasn't here at the time.
i heard c-22 left and the next day BL got hacked and that's why we all had to change our passwords, and that's how some people lost their accounts.
heard about some other strange happenings in relation to those two events, but then again, this site seems to generate some sort of iFolk-lore or something so who knows what's true.