IPredator is moving to Njalla


Oct 30, 2020

So, we finally did it!

A bit over 12 years ago IPREDator was started. The name IPREDator was a symbolic name made up back then because of the new IPRED law. That law grants companies the right to acquire peoples private information without going through the police regarding immaterial rights violations. The VPN service was born as a fuck you to the politicians for voiding the peoples right to a fair trial. In retrospect, we should have named it something less creepy, but at the time it was very good and effective.

But just as the name has passed the expiration date the service had also become a bit stale. The team has always been very passionate but not always the most structured. So some time back it was decided that it was time to move away from the current platform and revamp it all. And we already had a structured modern infrastructure in mind, namely Njalla!

As you might know, the core of the Ipredator team also started Njalla. The idea was to bring our unique view on privacy also to domains, since we personally always had trust issues with domain privacy. And then we added virtual servers since a lot of people also asked for that. And since IPredator was a bit stale and VPN is the obvious thing Njalla was missing, we decided to add a modern VPN service to Njalla.

All the people using IPredator will be able to move their account over to Njalla. All the remaining VPN time is added to the account - plus one extra month as a welcome bonus. Those of you that already have a njalla account will get your VPN time extended. But if you want to give it to someone else, or have multiple accounts, just contact our support and we'll help you!

We're turning off the old infrastructure for IPredator in the middle of november. All the previous issues with broken VPNs and so on are memories of the past, since we're a bigger team working with Njalla, we run on newer hardware and with better infrastructure. It was really time to upgrade and it just didn't make sense to have two similar services running with two overlapping teams.

Most things from IPredator will be the same, but since we're moving from a decade old way of thinking, the world has changed a lot. In 2008 Donald Trump was a trolling TV-host instead of a trolling president. Facebook was a thing back then. (Not sure if we even had colour screens back then?) So some things will have to change. The most major things are:

  • The IPs for the public resolvers are going to be changed. Go to https://dns.njal.la/ for the new public resolver (which also supports private DNS-over-TLS/HTTPS).
  • The IRC server will be closed down. This has mostly been used for support, which is now using the njalla ticketing system.
  • The Jabber server will be closed down. It would be good for the few people still using it to find alternative jabber servers to move to. We'd suggest getting a domain name and a VPS to run your own, or better migrate to Matrix.

Any questions you might have about the transition from IPredator to Njalla can of course be asked to our support!

You can migrate your IPredator account to Njalla on njal.la/ipredator.

Bures boahtin ("welcome" in Sámi)!

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