Talk:McColo

A fact from McColo appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 30 November 2008, and was viewed approximately 3,800 times (disclaimer) (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that internet service provider McColo, taken down in November 2008, hosted the world's biggest botnet and was responsible for at least half of all email spam?

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Anybody know who owns McColo? Or who was/is behind it? And where are these guys located? And where was the ISP located? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.129.128.26 (talk • contribs) 18:41, 27 November 2008

The person itself was Russian man Nikolay. He is famous for being killed in a car crash accident by his friend carder Jax in a street race in Moscow. Jax was the driver and he was drunk. He tried to chase Cayenne in his BMW 760. Here you can see related discussions in Russian http://forum.searchengines.ru/showthread.php?t=163356&page=3, http://www.bmwclub.ru/vb/showthread.php?t=150083, http://community.livejournal.com/ru_auto/7816235.html?thread=180090155#t180090155, http://crutop.nu/Vbulletin/showthread.php?t=73915 (tread is deleted), the car before crach http://www.bmwclub.ru/vb/showthread.php?t=149165 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.103.66.177 (talk) 07:34, 14 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Its office appears to be located in Newark, Delaware, while the data center appears to be located in Market Post Tower, in San Jose, California. The Delaware address (found in whois and company mailing address) does not appear to be an "office", but rather a house (maybe a home-office?). --Voidvector (talk) 08:24, 1 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]