Kolyma, a so-called network from Russia that buys imageboards (https://soyjak.party/suggest//res/5328.html is an example) and provides free hosting and technical support (pic1). According to their founder, they have been around since 2000 and have several imageboards in their network. But is this true?
Here is how anons review Yuri Kuznetsov, the founder of kolyma network:
“jfc i heard this kuz pedophile before can anyone spoonfeed me about this (he also had involvement in the altchan datamining)” (pic2)
“>>5403
He runs all these (actual datamining link btw)
https://bbs.kolyma.org/”
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He writes about himself on his own wiki, you can read it here:
https://info.kolyma.org/index.php/Yuri_Kuznetsov
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So, let's start from the very beginning. The domain kolyma.org was bought in 2007, but by no means by them. According to Kuznetsov the network was founded in 2005, but in webarchive this domain clearly doesn't belong to them. Moreover, the domain was sold at auction. After 2016, the domain was inactive, according to webarchive. As kolyma-network, it only became active in 2021. Kolyma-network lied about its creation date.
Proof:
https://web.archive.org/web/*/kolyma.org -- webarchive
https://web.archive.org/web/20161006223901/http://kolyma.org/ - domain on sale
https://web.archive.org/web/20161006144040/http://www.kolyma.org/ - another page, domain on sale
https://web.archive.org/web/20151017070323/http://www.kolyma.org/ - an even earlier sale offer with a link to godaddy auction (pic8 with translation)
https://ru.godaddy.com/domain-auctions/kolyma-org-158176017 -- the auction itself, finished.
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