After growing increasingly isolated, Emil Kacperski earlier this week said he was severing all ties with Esthost, which he said was responsible for 25 percent to 50 percent of Intercage's revenue. He also pledged to overhaul his abuse reporting system so employees could more quickly disconnect customers engaging in malicious activity. Security professionals have remained skeptical, as the Global Crossing move would suggest.
But it's questionable exactly how effective this method of ostracization is. Within hours of being dumped by Intercage, Esthost, and its sister company, Estdomains, were back online through a patchwork of different hosts that have changed over time. At time of writing, Esthost appeared to be sitting in Cernel.net IP space, based on trace route results and border gateway protocol table information.
What's more, a trace route of Estdomains shows the registrar is now using the services of Petersberg Transit Telecom and ReTN net. That's right, Global Crossing, and a variety of other big name providers, are accepting Estdomains and Esthost IP allocation prefixes.
