By Catherine A. Fitzpatrick

I had meant to publish this before but set it aside when so many people discouraged me, but now that Konstantin Rykov is being discussed again for his Facebook "revelations," I'll put this out there.

There's this thread:https://www.facebook.com/konstantin.rykov/posts/10210621124674610

(THREAD) This is the most stunning revelation in the Trump/Russia investigation yet. My brother Brian @krassenstein predicted something like this was coming very soon, just days ago & here it is! Konstantin Rykov who is known as a Kremlin Propagandist with close ties to Putin (1)

— Ed Krassenstein (@EdKrassen) November 25, 2017

FWIW, I don't think it's the most stunning revelation, but a problem with all the Trump/Russia stuff is that there are such masses of stuff that it is hard to get the whole picture. Of course, I trust Mueller to get this whole picture more than I do Twitter sleuths. We'll see.

These notes are from November 2, 2016. I showed this to three different techies, they all dismissed it with varying degrees of scorn as such people always do. This was done in the course of researching this four-part series of articles in which we went through all of Trump's Russia connections — and we were hardly the only journalists to do this. The story of his connection to the Agalarovs, although some are just discovering this on Twitter now, has been known for years.

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Look up Trump2016.ru to see what it's IP address is in numerical terms.

So here:

http://ru.whatmyip.co/info/whois/87.242.78.131/k/3679097392/website/trump2016.ru

2. That gives you 87.242.78.131

So look up 87.242.78.131 to see what else it might host.

3. Go here: 

http://hostingcompass.com/

Then plug in 87.242.78.131

And you get this:

So if Rykov.ru has 87.242.78.131 AND Trump2016.ru turns out ALSO to be hosted on 87.242.78.131, they are likely related.

Why? Because he's likely to use the same hosting company. 

To be sure, if there were 10 or 100 things on that same server, all kinds of shopping sites and such, you could say, oh, that may only be a coincidence since all of those sites are using the same service to mask their identities.

Except read what Hosting Compass says — rykov.ru and rykov.media are ATTACHED to 87.242.78.131 — exactly.

The dozen shopping sites are only in the RANGE close to that number.

So let's say Rykov has gone to the trouble to contract a web host. According to this site, he could create sub-domains on his main domain. Whether or not it's a good practice it's still something he could do.

https://www.thesitewizard.com/domain/multiple-websites-one-domain.shtml

In any event, the question to ask is whether it is possible for 87.242.78.131, the Trump site, to also be the same IP address for other completely unrelated sites.

And given that Hosting Compass tells us no, it's only two Rykov sites, that suggests they are related.

Yes, I totally realize that one server could host multiple things. For example, in Second Life, where I rent servers, this is a big annoyance. They have dynamically rotating servers. So you never know if some days you are sharing a server, say, with a furry club, with a shoutcast stream and 40 avatars lagging the server then. There were even some nerds who published this information about your "secret sharers" so that you could complain to the company if you got stuck with a club. 

But in this case, if Hosting Compass repeatedly shows only 2 other sites attached to that address that we know to be the Trump2016 address, it seems likely it's Rykov.

The other site has a trail like that as well, only a bit more complicated, leading to NOD.