Russian top-level internet domain suffers massive outage

Russian citizens couldn't access the majority of websites on the country’s .ru domain for several hours on Tuesday, including the Yandex search engine, the VKontakte social media platform, the major state-owned bank Sberbank and news outlets. The outage was reportedly caused by a technical problem with the .ru domain’s global Domain Name System Security Extensions,

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