Belarusian authorities took away Euroradio’s domain
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The Lukashenka regime has taken away Euroradio’s domain — even though it wasn’t registered in Belarus.
One of our “mirror” sites — euroradio.by — stopped working last week. Nothing changed on our side, and the domain was fully paid for. As it turned out, it was simply taken from us.
According to WHOIS data, the site now belongs to the Belarusian organization “Adkryty Kantakt” (“Open Contact”), which handles domain registrations. The domain remains paid, which ironically means that, as an “extremist formation,” we are now indirectly funding a state organization.
The Australian company Europe Registry, through which Euroradio registered this mirror years ago, didn’t consider it necessary to warn us about the change — or even to respond to our inquiries over the past week.
At the end of 2023 and beginning of 2024, official Minsk stripped a number of independent media outlets and initiatives of their .by domains. But at that time, the AOC’s reach extended only to domains registered inside Belarus.
