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Name: Multi ultimate Description: Ultimate Sweeper - Strictly cleans the Internet and protects your privacy! Blocks Ads, Affiliate, Tracking (+Referral), Metrics, Telemetry, Phishing, Malware, Scam, Free Hoster, Fake, Coins and other "Crap". License : MIT license A raw URL which our system can fetch from periodically in order to build the list: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hagezi/dns-blocklists/main/domains/ultimate.txt You can find more of his List [Even some that dont block so hard here: https://github.com/hagezi/dns-blocklists#ultimate

I have been facing a predicament for months, which is that Steam thinks i'm a bot and doesn't let me play any multiplayer games in.. multiplayer, and I can't turn my VPN off to use all 5 ports on it to host numerous servers. The problem is, there isn't a way to IP or domain whitelist Steam, since I don't know any of the ip's it uses to connect, and they change alot. This is where app-based tunneling would shine though, and here is why 1. App based tunelling would most likely save you guys alot of bandwidth, now people can tell the VPN to send web browser connections through their actual internet, and then you won't have alot of traffic taken up by YouTube streams 2. This defeats the need to switch to other clients, which is clunky and complicated. 3. It lets you do everything in one app (Eddie), which is extremely convenient and simple for newcomers to use, probably bringing more subscribers to the VPN too since split-tunneling is a useful feature 4. It straight up lets you split tunnel some stuff in the first place, such as Steam i've already mentioned, which uses a variety of ip's and domains i don't know, and i'm not about to spend a few hours in wireshark getting all the ip's/domains and adding them. So please, 4 good reasons on why app split-tunneling should be added to Eddie. P.S. another thing I noticed was that the split-tunneling already in Eddie didn't seem to work until I reconnected the VPN, is this a limitation, a bug, or just something that isn't added? - Thanks, a pleading CS2 player and server hoster

I expect an apology from both of you for baseless slander.

The site has been under a DDOS attack for a while and the owner blacklisted heavy usage servers as one of a series of countermeasures. He apologised for some innocent victims of this but the site seemed to be working fine this morning, so hopefully it is back to normal now..

Why do AirVPN DNS servers hate the website usps.com so much? At first, I couldn’t figure out why I could load usps.com on my FreeBSD machine but not on my Android smartphone. Then I realized that, on FreeBSD, the DNS fallback mechanism configured in /etc/resolv.conf was causing a DNS leak: usps.com would load in Chromium because my ISP’s DNS servers were being used. I had to make sure that resolv.conf was automatically configured to use AirVPN DNS first and, from now on, to fall back to Cloudflare DNS or Google DNS instead of my ISP’s DNS. But I’m curious: why can’t AirVPN DNS resolve usps.com?

just make sure it's not your own exit IP (whether real IP or VPN exit IP) 🤣 there have been sightings of oddball servers that would mirror the exact traffic back to you. purpose: unknown. this would look really like your counterpart with the same port tried to connect to you. Try to write down IPs to see if a pattern emerges. Is it a small range of addresses (first half of IPv6, entire address for IPv4 accounting) or a broad range? Do they belong to the same ISP or hosting? relax, stop over reacting, stop micromanaging and get used to it, because that's how the internet is supposed to work on a technical level 1. IPv4 and IPv6 are separate and independent networks. Your client is correct to treat them as if one doesn't know about the other 2. IPv6 hosts (peers) will often have at least two addresses assigned through no fault of their own. Your client is correct again to treat them separately as if they were independent but equal. The above is correct on a technical level. The world won't get better if you start handing out manual bans to more fairly redistribute the upload bandwidth. The world will get better if more people contribute to uploading with more bandwidth. You wanted an answer, right? The answer is: the bittorrent client could try to deduplicate peers across different logical networks only for the limited upload speed to be more fairly distributed across currently connected peers. Why isn't it being done? It's impossible and/or very hard and/or unnecessary. How many CPU cycles does a program need to dedicate to scanning all details between all peers for deduplication to avoid the bandwidth advantage of (Number IP addresses * 1/number total peer connections)? The difference is 1/n in most cases. While it's apparent to you that a peer is the same over multiple addresses, to a program it is not. How do you avoid banning all of a real peer's addresses, when the remaining one drops completely for example? Like IPv4+IPv6 were working and connected, IPv4 was banned by you. But then the peer drops out, because IPv6 stopped working on their end. Do you lift the ban by retrying (wasting packets, CPU cycles and energy?). The solution asks for heuristics and for a computer and programmer it's muddy waters. Why spend time and effort to begin with? I have spent more effort than necessary by explaining this, but I wouldn't convince you otherwise, because you act on emotion of righteousness... understandable. unless you understand how futile your manual effort is. I don't mean to sound condescending, but the protocol works the way it does. It is what it is. And the person on the other end is not evil or responsible for how it works. At the planetary scale the solution is more seeding. Just keep seeding when you can. That's all, folks!

Here is a copy of the message on the current happenings.

(Edited on April 23) Just as a note, since the first days of April the situation with VPNs in Russia is going into the real Cheburnet phase: Spyware VPN detectors will be inserted into all the major commercial mobile apps (Max, VK, Yandex, banks, phone carriers, etc.), every detected endpoint IP will most likely go into the country-wide blacklist The increase of the cross-border backbone bandwidth has already been vetoed because it has grown over the top in the last year due to the VPNs Because of that there are rumors that more than 15 GB/month of cross-border traffic will have added cost for every end user (proven but action currently delayed due to the technical difficulties in detecting the cross-border traffic at the ISP level) VPN software will be detected on every in-country VPS hosting provider to prevent using them as bridges (it is already a common practice to circumvent white list blocks) Recently there were wired Internet shutdowns looking very much like tests of white list blocks (before that only mobile Internet had white lists) By the way, it's very hard to find any AirVPN server which is not yet blocked. But I can still find some (mostly in Netherlands) by automated scanning. AmneziaWG is necessary, of course

Hello! We do agree and we are planning to implement on our software per app traffic splitting on Windows too. Currently you can enjoy per app traffic splitting on Linux (AirVPN Suite) and Android (Eddie Android edition). If the machine you use for Steam is based on Linux you can already have per app traffic splitting with our software. If you run Windows, in the meantime you can consider WireSock, which offers traffic splitting and reverse traffic splitting (on an application basis) and is fully compatible with our WireGuard servers. The Configuration Generator will generate the profiles you wish. Kind regards

Hii, i have a question about what servers to use, is it safe to use the American servers for better speed without worrying about my ISP dinging me or sending me any letters? I do have AirVPN bound to qBittorrent properly, at least im pretty sure i do. ;_; (settings>advanced>network interface set to Eddie) Thank you very much for any answers ❤️

Hey, see this guide on how to bind your Qbittorrent client. It uses the example of proton VPN, but it is almost the same for AirVPN. Binding is super important. https://protonvpn.com/support/bittorrent-vpn#how-to-bind-the-client-to-the-proton-vpn-interface

Tysm!!! I haven't used any torrent clients since i was like 10 and very ill informed. I want to be as safe as possible so thank you again for your answer!!!

Your ISP can't see any more when you use servers in USA than they can if you use servers outside USA. But that's all assuming your setup doesn't leak as you've tried to prevent by binding qbit to the VPN interface. If you do leak, your ISP will ding you no matter what server you use. Nothing magical about using servers outside USA.

And very well they work too, nice to have servers near to home - Thanks!

Hello! AMule uses both TCP and UDP protocols for different functions. TCP is primarily used for client-to-client transfers and connections to eDonkey servers, while UDP is used for extended protocol features, according to Wikipedia. For your account you have forwarded a few UDP only ports. Please change them to "TCP and UDP" and test again. Furthermore, if your system is Windows, make sure that the Windows Firewall (or Defender etc.) allows incoming packets for aMule on both private and public networks: if the VPN is considered a public network (check it out) by default incoming packets will be rejected or dropped. Kind regards

I remember you were based in China. Could it be your own ISP IP address there? Nah, that's not how it works. If you're subscribed to your ISP's gigabit line for instance, you don't get one IPv4 gigabit line and one IPv6 gigabit line which then add up to be two gigabits – the same gigabit line is just reachable by two different address schemes, v6 preferred, but the quicker gets the traffic. No need to ban anything there. At least for that reason – at the end of the day I think it's still taking two upload slots. Wondering how you know it's the same peer, though.

I tried many script found in this forum, but seems all not work for me 1. I connected to a random server by using AirVPN UI 2. Start the "ROTATING Script" 3. I use what is my IP to check my public IP, every 24 hours, no change. Anything I did wrong ? How to make my AprVPN rotating server every 15 mins ? Please help !

Servers blocked right now includes: Nash, Matar, Talitha, ... but Orion works today!

Hello! Thank for your choice! The infrastructure servers are updated periodically and rebooted on a scheduled, slow rotation to avoid excessive disruptions, except when an urgent update is absolutely necessary. On the 1st of May, an urgent update became essential to address a paramount, critical vulnerability affecting all Linux kernels. Therefore, after having verified that no exploit was attempted on the servers, and after applying a temporary patch preventing the exploit, we proceeded at a rapid pace to update all kernels and reboot the servers in large batches to complete all updates within 24 hours. Kind regards

Hello! Roughly 30% to 50% of peers in a typical Linux distro swarm have working IPv6 connectivity. However, BitTorrent clients or systems may prefer IPv4 and the perceived percentage of IPv6 peers can be dramatically lower. Kind regards

Got this message today on Tahoe. I know it could be a while before they shut down Rosetta but this message may alarm some Mac users.

Hi All, With the permission from the staff here, I'm releasing a project I've been working on these past few months, for myself, named AirBL. Fully hosted on GitHub for all to run via their preferred container deployment method, e.g. Docker, OrbStack, etc. The companion will help you with: Smart Gluetun Integration: Bypasses Gluetun's static logic by feeding it a dynamic servers.json, monitoring for DroneBL blocks and forcibly restart Gluetun if the server IP gets flagged (customizable behavior). WireGuard Generation: Automatically generates perfected wg0.conf files (per the user choice, prioritizing speed, clean servers or both). It pulls data from internal speed tests and TCP verifiers to lock in clean IPs. AUTO Entry Resolution: Use the "AUTO" setting to let AirBL analyze its local SQLite database and automatically map your configuration to the fastest historical route. Multi-Day Discovery Engine: Cycles through different ports (1637, 47107, 51820) and Entry points, over several days to eliminate "fluke" speed tests and lock in proven performance, discovering the best possible route. Dynamic Identity Ingestion: Just drop one AirVPN .conf file into the directory. AirBL extracts your keys and dynamically generates hundreds of optimized variants on the fly. Abuse & Performance Filtering: Automatically bans servers that drop below your Mbps floor, keeping your server list healthy. And more! Come check it out here https://github.com/xEsurient/AirBL | https://xesurient.github.io/AirBL/ Feedback and commits on the project are welcome, e.g. if there's things that you think could be done better such as abandoning the N*Speedtests logic via speedtest-cli for something more robust or indicative of the network's performance. Disclosures: Wiki is AI fixed with references and proof checked after changes (to ensure the information is understandable and complete), README.md is completely AI generated based on the project itself, minus a few tweaks and fact checking changes, Index.html is a standard template (commonly used by whatever AI choice) that has been modified slightly (based on Jinja2). Disclosures: Wiki is AI fixed with references and proof checked after changes (to ensure the information is understandable and complete), README.md is completely AI generated based on the project itself, minus a few tweaks and fact checking changes, Index.html is a standard template (commonly used by whatever AI choice) that has been modified slightly (based on Jinja2).

This happened to me, but that was eons ago and on Windows host. Eddie typically backs up the current system DNS configuration on startup and replaces it with AirVPN’s DNS servers for the duration of the VPN session. Under normal conditions, the original DNS settings are restored when the session ends. However, if the client or system shuts down unexpectedly, this restoration step may not complete. As a result, the system can be left using AirVPN DNS servers. On subsequent launches, Eddie may then back up this already-modified state instead of the original configuration, effectively losing the previous (likely DHCP-assigned) DNS settings. To resolve the issue, reset your DNS configuration [while Eddie is not running, Staff]. Go to your network settings and set IPv4 DNS to Automatic (DHCP). This will restore your system’s default DNS behavior. Regards Viktor23596

Hello! We're very glad to inform you that Eddie Android edition 4.0.1 is now available. This is a patch release to fix a bug affecting AmneziaWG and WireGuard profile generation by Eddie. When generating a profile for WireGuard or AmneziaWG, Eddie 4.0.0 omits the MTU option and the IPv6 address space (even when it's necessary) in AllowedIPs option arguments. We strongly recommend that you upgrade immediately. Eddie Android edition 4.0.1 is available on our web site and the Google Play Store. Any other feature is described by the 4.0.0 version announcement, available here: https://airvpn.org/forums/topic/79743-eddie-android-edition-400-available/ Kind regards & datalove AirVPN Staff

WireGuard all the way. OpenVPN only when you must bypass an outbound firewall, via TCP 443 for example.

Hello! We already implemented it in 2021. Any domain which must be blocked includes all of its subdomains too. Besides, different matching methods are available for your additions and exceptions: Exact (exact FQDN), Domain (domain and its subdomains), Wildcard (with * and ? as wildcards), Contain, Start with, End with. Kind regards

Hello, I just did read about Proton VPN increasing it efficiency on blocking ads and trackers Is this something you can implement also?

There are hundreds of those protocols. Neither of them works as well as AmneziaWG.

Dark mode pretty please!! Keep up the good work! Thanks

Shadow libraries never were subject to AirVPN funding, and probably never will. Scientific papers for example are behind paywalls and that can be defined as a barrier, but that's probably because research costs money. And then there's AA's Spotify publication which heavily leans on classic piracy instead of tearing down barriers to information. Openly funding a service engaged in piracy is not a good thing for AirVPN. Looking at the list on the Mission page one may spot that funding goes to (h)activistic endeavours, which Anna's Archive is definitely not part of.

Hello! We're very glad to inform you that six new 10 Gbit/s full duplex servers located in Manchester and London (UK) are available: Amansinaya, Arber, Baiduri (London), Bubup, Cebo, Caophraya (Manchester). The first three mentioned servers are located in London, the other ones in Manchester. This addition replaces any previous UK 1 Gbit/s server in order to upgrade the whole UK infrastructure to 10 Gbit/s only servers, with per server 10 Gbit/s dedicated lines and ports, and modern hardware as announced here: https://airvpn.org/forums/topic/79154-uk-infrastructure-upgrade-to-10-gbits-full-duplex/ The AirVPN client will show automatically the new servers; if you use any other OpenVPN or WireGuard client you can generate all the files to access them through our configuration/certificates/key generator (menu "Client Area"->"Config generator"). The servers accept connections on ports 53, 80, 443, 1194, 2018 UDP and TCP for OpenVPN and ports 1637, 47107 and 51820 UDP for WireGuard. They support OpenVPN over SSL and OpenVPN over SSH, TLS 1.3, OpenVPN tls-crypt and WireGuard. Full IPv6 support is included as well. As usual no traffic limits, no logs, no discrimination on protocols and hardened security against various attacks with separate entry and exit-IP addresses. You can check the status as usual in our real time servers monitor . Click a server name to display specific server stats. Do not hesitate to contact us for any information or issue. Kind regards & datalove AirVPN Staff

Loving these new speedy servers! Would love to see some upgrades to the 2 overworked connections in Montreal.

Random question that I was always curious about, does anyone know why most of the servers in Sweden have such low utilization? Doesn't seem to happen for any other country.

I deliberately avoid the Uppsala servers when using Sweden because they perform so poorly. They are extremely slow in the same way the decommissioned Stockholm server Ain was, which got thankfully replaced by Segin. Screenshots from Speedtest to show the vast difference. First two of the Stockholm servers. Segin Lupus Then two of the Uppsala servers. Albali Benetnasch

What would be the interface from which the users can vote? Client area? Eddie? API? All of those? Don't know about the practicality of such a rating, though, it's highly subjective whether a server works for you or not, doesn't incorporate the setups of users (Access tech? Specific problematic ISPs?)…

Perhaps a result of some benchmark could be factored in the scoring function. I assume a server with better hardware would be able handle more connections. On a second thought, this would probably require quite some work (unless this data already exists), and a change in the API because AFAIK it only returns bandwidth utilization of the server in the current version.

Would it be a good idea to also add scoring from users? Maybe there could be some score where it is averaged from user ratings. This would seem like a good way for staff to know how servers perform for most users as well.

I checked Eddie on Linux and Android in parallel, thrice, with some delay between them. Star ratings from Linux with Speed rule. #1, Subra seems like the better one due to latency. Linux: Subra 13ms 62% 119u (3-star) Android: Taiyi 26 ms 65% 112u (0-star) #2 Diphda seems slightly better due to latency and load. Linux: Diphda 12ms 48% 128u (3-star) Android: Taiyi 18ms 65% 112u (0-star) #3 After a ~15min delay. Very similar results, but Linux chose again marginally better. Linux: Garnet 13ms 56% 121u (3-star) Android: Taiyi 13ms 58% 124u (0-star) Android's fixation on Taiyi is interesting, but not a bad choice in all cases. #1 UK. Comparable. None is better than the other. Linux: Chow 26ms 29% 104u Android: Naos 24ms 35% 99u #2 Sweden. All are bad choices, even if Linux chose marginally better. The Kustbandet servers are somehow ignored completely, there are no load and no users on them. Linux: Norma 24ms 79% 167u Android: Copernicus 25ms 86% 162u #3 Japan. Iskandar is a slightly better choice. Linux: Iskandar 234ms 52% 76u Android: Albaldah 236ms 76% 85u In regards to the scoring rules, an idea. A math formula incorporating clients, load and latency, times a modifier for the scoring rule. Something that maybe rates clients, load and latency = 0 best, so one can use the lowest result. I'm not a math whiz, frankly, but maybe use a function where y grows exponentially. The parabola comes to mind, f(x) = x^2, where f(0) = 0. Drawing a bit in a graphical calculator, something like 0.0001 * x^2 * (modifier) * x looks promising. Calculate this for all three, sum the result, lowest is best server. Gives some flexibility in that it's easy to add further data points to the calculation, or a broader selection of modifiers. I think it would even enable users to set the modifiers themselves because all scores will be based on this parabola function. Modifier can also be in front, (mod*0.0001) * x^2. Then you'd set it as integer (default 1), and rising modifiers cause the curve to steepen quicker.

Hello! You may be right. According to your user feeling, what is the best selection of server using quick connection mode (i.e. you do not force a white list of any type) between Eddie Desktop, Eddie Android and AirVPN Suite (if you ran two or all of them)? And what is the software that achieves the best selection inside a single forced country (when the country offers multiple servers)? Kind regards

Looking in Eddie, I can deduce a possible reason. If the scoring rule is set to Speed, which is the default, only four servers actually get a non-zero score, putting only those four into consideration of the Connect to best server function. The client count reflects that. I quick-tested a connection to Sweden on Android, and Copernicus was chosen to be the best server.. huh. Also interesting: The first three are hosted by Altushost, Segin is Netrouting, rest seems to be Kustbandet. ISP might play a role here, too.

You are making absolutely zero sense with that comparison. It's 98% of people who don't bother changing profile settings. Which also means, 98% of profiles will be hidden, as the default visibility setting of the profile is Hide for all. Now, you could, of course, change that setting for you yourself, open up to the community, and provide that info, especially to explicitly provide your gender as to foster correct referrals to your person. I sincerely believe, that's what this is all about: Reducing the risk of hurting someone in a conversation. But, let's explore this situation a little. Suppose someone wants to find out how to refer to some other poster around here. First hurdle: 98% of profiles are hidden. Means, one in fifty is open. So the profile is clicked to find out "so, do I say him, do I say them?" and, oh darn, hidden profile. Then that person answers another person, clicks the profile, oh darn, hidden again. And a third, hidden. And a fourth, hidden. That person quickly learns: "Why bother, all the profiles are hidden, anyway", and defaults to "he", "he/she" or "them". Or even "per". So even if you sincerely wanted to do so, correctly referring to another person without the chance of having the necessary info left of every post gets tedious and downright impossible to do with all the profiles being hidden. Hence why the gender info might provide the choices for many genders, but what's the point if no one can look at it? Even if one of those profiles was opened, it doesn't mean all the fields were filled. The probability of finding a correct pronoun for referral gets even lower. As I wrote, we are here for discussions around AirVPN and VPN technology in general (actually, tech support for AirVPN), with some related topics around it. It would be a first for me to find out that gender is important in discussions about VPN tech. You are right that, in the past, I mostly defaulted to the masculine form when referring to any one poster (I prepended a Mr. to every username when referring to that user) but am shifting to @ mentions instead, those are neutral and even cause notifications. That's probably the most scandalous thing in regard to genders one can accuse me of. Homophobia… just really isn't. And, please, do not start the race thing. There is a good, tangible reason to publish pronouns. There is absolutely no reason to publish race, so it's incomparable. A little bit of warning: I will move this discussion to off-topic as, while it refers to the forums software of AirVPN, it does not relate to AirVPN tech directly. Don't think anything bad about the move, it is not an attempt to silence you. Simple moderator chore: Every post to the correct subforum. I am futhermore happy to continue discussing this matter with you (and everyone may join, I might add). But, should your tone of discussion not shift to be more constructive, with less baseless slander against any one person here, I'm putting a warning point on the table. This will come with being put on moderator queue which will see all your posts being screened before publication (as is actually the case right now as you're a new poster). Thank your for your understanding in this matter, and to a good, fruitful discussion. 🍷

That's because the AirVPN team didn't write a forums software from scratch, they picked an existing software and adapted it to the special needs of their infrastructure. A gender field in users' profiles is not a special need, given that 98% of people around here don't bother changing profile settings, let alone edit their profile. IP.Board is a "generic" forums software which can be used in many environments. In some of them contact info, birthdays and genders make sense. In some of them, including airvpn.org, they don't.

The gender is a more or less unnecessary piece of information around here. Even if you wanted to provide your pronouns, no one would be able to see this preference when replying in a thread. It's not in the quick info dialog when hovering over the poster's name, and by default profiles are inaccessable to all, so no one would be able to see that info in the first place. You could use the Location field to enter those, it's visible directly under your name, but that'd be displayed with a Location label, see the example on the left under my name (and compare it with how I formatted it in the profile). You must also be advised that this version on IP.Board comes from a different internet era altogether (~10 years ago, I believe), one that didn't have the custom of providing pronouns, or having a variety of genders to identify as. So, you may treat Not telling simply as virtually equivalent to non-binary.

Hello! You must always check your facts, before posting publicly on important matters. As far as we can see, according to web searches and AI answers: And of course they are forbidden by the ToS that every AirVPN user accepts. Kind regards

@Bohdan Kushnirchuk Hello! How to solve: To grant Terminal full disk access (except some specific critical directories) on macOS, follow these steps: Open System Settings (or System Preferences): On macOS Ventura and later, click the Apple menu at the top-left of your screen, then choose System Settings. On macOS Monterey or earlier, choose System Preferences. Go to Privacy & Security: In System Settings (Ventura and later), select Privacy & Security in the left-hand menu. In System Preferences (Monterey and earlier), click Security & Privacy, then go to the Privacy tab. Select Full Disk Access: In the Privacy & Security or Security & Privacy tab, scroll down and click Full Disk Access in the left menu. Unlock Settings: At the bottom-left of the window, you might need to click the lock icon and enter your admin password to make changes. Add Terminal: Once the lock is open, click the + button beneath the list of apps with Full Disk Access. In the file chooser window that pops up, go to Applications > Utilities, and select Terminal. Click Open to add it to the list. Restart Terminal: Close the Terminal app if it’s open, then reopen it to apply the changes. 2. Open the terminal and change ownership of the relevant files: sudo chown root /Applications/Eddie.app/Contents/MacOS/* Kind regards

Is this a French website? If it is, it's entirely possible that nginx's GeoIP2 module is being used to return a 404 for everyone not in France, though that's a nginx Plus feature. Or it's some other mechanism not based on GeoIP but something else; but still, visitors are somehow being differentiated here and it's not based on whether it's a VPN or not.

Happy 14th Birthday AirVPN. Myself I have been a User/subscriber for 12 of those 14yrs and will continue into future. The best VPN service available in my opinion.

Thank you for your services in keeping an open and free Internet possible!

Starting some time yesterday I began to see more issues on IPLeak the fallback test fails and the dns test while detecting the right thing and saying it only detected one server like it should duplicates that one result once or sometimes twice. Here's a screenshot of what I mean. As you can see the dns test only detects one server and it's the one I connected but it shows the same identical result twice or three times Instead of just the once like it's meant too. Is this happening to everyone or just me? I'm using the latest version of firefox on windows 10 21H2, is this happening in other browsers and on other OS's? Is the site under work to fix something again and that's why the issues are happening? Thanks for the help.

AIRVPN DOES NOT RECOGNIZE ANYMORE VERISIGN, AFILIAS AND ICANN AUTHORITY. OUR COMMITMENT AGAINST UNITED STATES OF AMERICA UNFAIR AND ILLEGAL DOMAIN NAMES SEIZURES. The United States of America authorities have been performing domain names seizures since the end of 2010. The seizures have been performed against perfectly legal web-sites and/or against web-sites outside US jurisdiction. Administrators of some of those web-sites had been previously acquitted of any charge by courts in the European Union. The domain name seizures affect the world wide web in its entirety since they are performed bypassing the original registrar and forcing VeriSign and Afilias (american companies which administer TLDs like .org, .net, .info and .com) to transfer the domain name to USA authorities property. No proper judicial overview is guaranteed during the seizure. Given all of the above, we repute that these acts: - are a violation of EU citizens fundamental rights, as enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights; - are an attack against the Internet infrastructure and the cyberspace; - are a strong hint which shows that decision capacities of USA Department of Justice and ICE are severely impaired; and therefore from now on AirVPN does not recognize VeriSign, Afilias and/or ICANN authority over domain names. AirVPN refuses to resolve "seized" domain names to the IP address designated by USA authorities, allowing normal access to the original servers' websites / legitimate Ip addresses. In order to fulfil the objective, we have put in place an experimental service which is already working fine. If you find anomalies, please let us know, the system will surely improve in time. Kind regards AirVPN admins