Bom dia Yuri,

I just sent you 5 million – good luck!

Kind regards,
-Michael
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Michael J. Oghia
Founder, Oghia Advising
Belgrade, Serbia (CEST) | LinkedIn <https://linkedin.com/in/mikeoghia>

On Wed, Aug 5, 2026 at 6:26 AM Yuri <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am the technical operator of a licensed online gaming platform in Brazil
> and I would like to request RIPE Atlas credits for a DNS measurement.
>
> Context: our domain (vixe.bet) was included in a DNS blocking list issued
> by a Brazilian federal authority and enforced by Anatel, the national
> telecom regulator, starting 25 July 2026. The inclusion was later
> determined to be an error — we hold a valid state licence — and on 29 July
> 2026 the same authority formally instructed Anatel to unblock the domain.
>
> What I need to verify is whether that unblocking has actually propagated
> to the recursive resolvers of the major Brazilian ISPs. Since the blocking
> is implemented at DNS resolver level by each operator individually, I
> cannot observe it from outside their networks. Residential proxies do not
> work for this, as the DNS resolution happens at the proxy gateway rather
> than on the end device.
>
> Proposed measurement: one-off DNS lookups (type A) for our domain, plus
> one control domain still on the blocking list and one unaffected domain,
> from probes in BR filtered by ASN — primarily Vivo, Claro, TIM and Oi, plus
> regional providers where probes are available. Roughly 200 probes, three
> queries each.
>
> By my calculation this costs around 12,000 credits per run. I would like
> to repeat it a few times over the coming weeks to confirm the result is
> stable, so I am requesting 50,000 credits.
>
> My RIPE Atlas account e-mail is: [email protected]
>
> I am also in the process of setting up a software probe on our own
> infrastructure, which is in a Brazilian ASN.
>
> Thank you very much,
>
> Yuri
> CEO, Playzen Gaming LTDA
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