Russia has suffered one of its largest Internet outages as sites with the .ru domain were unavailable for hours on the evening of January 30. Hundreds of Russian websites and mobile applications, including those belonging to the largest bank, social-media company, news portal, and e-commerce firm, were down for several hours, local agencies reported. People all over Russia were impacted. Russia's digital ministry said the failure was caused by a technical problem related to a set of DNS protocol extensions. Russia may be in the process of fulfilling plans to transfer all Internet users inside the country to the national DNS server, experts said. To read the original story by RFE/RL's Russian Service, click here.
