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		udev4096 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M... On a separate note, why was cloudflare given the ownership of 1.1.1.1?

rs_rs_rs_rs_rs 9 months ago [–]

It is explained in that blogpost from Cloudflare

'We offered Cloudflare's network to receive and study the garbage traffic in exchange for being able to offer a DNS resolver on the memorable IPs'

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