spam update

as of 190729, the following IP addresses, and top-level domains are BLOCKED from my web sites, for egregious spamming behaviour:

5.104.108.0/24 – germany
5.188.210.0/24 – russia
5.226.136.0/21 – UK
23.19.0.0/19 – russia
23.82.128.0/22 – VIRGINIA, USA
31.13.191.0/24 – sweden
37.120.135.0/24 – italy
37.120.159.0/24 – UK
45.12.176.0/22 – india
45.81.0.0/22 – UK
51.15.0.0/18 – france/belgium
51.38.157.0/26 – poland
51.89.30.128/26 – denmark
77.81.105.0/24 – romania
77.81.106.0/24 – romania
80.211.253.0/24 – aruba/italy
85.25.236.0/22 – germany
85.204.49.0/24 – romania
85.204.50.0/24 – romania
85.206.165.8/29 – lithuania/canada
85.254.72.0/24 – latvia
86.109.170.0/24 – spain
88.201.208.0/20 – russia
88.247.0.0/18 – turkey
88.247.64.0/20 – turkey
89.36.224.0/25 – romania
89.44.138.0/23 – romania
89.238.128.0/18 – UK
92.101.192.0/22 – russia
93.125.99.0/24 – belarus/canada
95.37.128.0/17 – russia
95.216.0.0/15 – finland
103.39.132.0/22 – india
103.62.92.0/22 – india
103.76.22.0/23 – indonesia
103.113.3.0/24 – indonesia
103.138.238.0/24 – india
104.245.144.0/22 – canada
105.174.0.0/15 – angola
109.93.128.0/17 – serbia
109.158.0.0/16 – UK
109.175.96.0/19 – bosnia and herzegovina
109.245.80.0/21 – serbia
118.107.180.0/24 – hong kong
133.0.0.0/8 – japan (this represents 16,777,216 individual IP addresses, the largest block allocated by the IANA 🤬)
134.90.149.176/29 – norway
139.99.0.0/17 – singapore
142.59.228.0/22 – canada
150.95.104.0/21 – vietnam
151.106.10.154/31 – china/france
151.106.12.240/28 – romania
157.157.87.0/24 – iceland
168.196.0.0/22 – argentina
176.9.0.0/16 – bulgaria
177.36.246.0/24 brazil
178.17.160.0/21 – moldova
178.17.168.0/21 – moldova
178.162.208.0/21 – germany
178.162.220.0/22 – germany
178.175.128.0/18 – moldova
181.214.60.0/22 – brazil
181.215.96.0/19 – brazil (london, columbia, chicago)
182.50.128.0/19 – singapore
182.52.0.0/15 – japan/thailand
182.56.0.0/14 – india
183.80.144.0/20 – vietnam
183.89.0.0/16 – thailand
185.9.147.0/24 – russia
185.93.3.0/24 – UK
185.94.189.128/27 – romania
185.103.110.0/24 – finland
185.125.32.0/22 – turkey
185.128.27.0/24 – italy
185.156.173.0/24 – france
185.206.224.0/24 – denmark
185.220.101.0/25 – germany
185.222.58.0/24 – bangladesh
185.230.127.0/24 – germany
185.234.0.0/22 – ireland/UK
188.209.52.0/24 – macau
193.56.28.0/24 – UK
193.201.224.0/22 – ukraine
195.181.166.0/24 – UK
199.249.230.0/24 – TEXAS, USA
200.40.96.0/24 – uruguay
201.138.46.0/24 – mexico
203.113.160.0/19 – vietnam

.bid – auctions
.br – brazil
.casa – “house”
.cf – central african republic
.club – groups, organizations, assemblies, communities, general
.cn – china
.date – online dating
.direct – general
.do – dominican republic
.download – technology
.es – spain
.faith – religion and churches
.fun
.gq – equatorial guinea
.hk – hong kong
.host – network companies
.icu – entrepreneurs and business owners
.life
.live
.loan – banks and lenders
.md – moldova
.moda – “fashion”
.mp – northern mariana islands (and anyone using mailchi.mp)
.ms – montserrat
.ooo
.online
.party – nightclubs and social gatherings
.pro – professions/professionals
.racing – racing
.review – public reviews
.ru – russia
.site
.space – as a creative space
.store – stores
.stream
.top
.trade – businesses
.webcam – web cam shows and video sharing
.website
.win – games, micro$oft windoesn’t
.world
.xyz
.za – south africa

if you recognise your IP address, or if you are one of the unfortunates whose web sites have one of the preceding TLDs, i’m sorry, but it had to be done… maybe if you contacted your ISP and complained, they might do something about it. 😒