Glossary

Pay-to-delete

Extortion model: publish damaging content, sell removal for cryptocurrency.

Compromising material weaponized for pressure; here, SEO-published defamation.

Operator term for paid removal; lacks enforceability across mirror network.

Alleged upsell for ongoing protection against republication ($6k+ documented).

Sister domain republishing same content under different TLD.

Showing different content to crawlers vs humans to evade detection.

Indicator of compromise — technical fingerprint linking infrastructure.

Roskomnadzor — Russian regulator that blocked several network domains in 2023.