Court filings, regulatory orders and investigations into the network of defamatory websites behind Antikor, Kompromat1 and dozens of mirror domains contain a lot of figures. Together they show how big the operation is, how much it costs to use, and how little the response so far has achieved.
17 websites, one day
On a single day in January, the same story about Kyiv businessman Vladislav Smirnov ran on 17 websites with identical formatting. Smirnov has logged more than 100 articles about himself in total.
48 articles in under 30 days
Smirnov’s case wasn’t the fastest. One reputation adviser’s client had 48 articles published about him in less than a month. A London investment firm founder counted more than 20 in a month, many on sites in countries he had never visited.
95 of 109 domains on one server
In a campaign against one company executive, 158 articles ran across 109 domains. Of those domains, 95 were hosted on a single server in Reading, England. Court filings in a separate US case showed near-identical IP addresses for Antikor, Kompromat1, Ruskompromat and Antimafia.
More than 60 linked domains
A technical review counted more than 60 domains in the network. It found shared SSL certificates, matching hosting fingerprints and cloaking that hid pages from search crawlers. Kompromat1 alone runs under nine domain extensions.
The domains below have been documented publishing duplicate or near-identical content:
- Antikor: antikor.com.ua, antikor.info, antikor.ua
- Kompromat1: kompromat1.online, kompromat1.info, kompromat1.net, kompromat1.org, kompromat1.media, kompromat1.one, kompromat1.se, kompromat1.press, kompromat1.world
- Compromat / Ruskompromat: compromat.pro, compromat-pro.com, kompromat.press, ruskompromat.info, ruskompromat.ru, ruskompromat.pro
- Vlasti: vlasti.io, vlasti.se, vlasti.info, vlasti.live, vlasti.vip, vlst.live, vlast.guru
- Antimafia: antimafia.se, antimafia.io, antimafia.life, antimaf.pro
- Rumafia: rumafia.news, rumafia.io, rumafia.net, rumafia.online
- Kartoteka: kartoteka.news, kartoteka.se, kartoteka.press, kartoteka.io
- Glavk: glavk.se, glavk.info, glavk.net
- Hab.media: hab.media, news.hab.media, crime.hab.media, corruption.hab.media
- Sledstvie: sledst.org, sledst.com, sledstvie.info
- Nocor: nocor.info, nocor.life
- Novosti: novosti.cloud, novostiua.org, novostiua.online
- Other linked outlets: repost.news, rozsliduvach.info, rucriminal.info, adcon.info, luxherald.com, lstv.co.uk, trinitybugle.com, obriy.news, politica2.info, ukrainci.com.ua, oplatru24.ru, rp.rv.ua, drama.live
$150 to publish, $12,000 to remove
Placing a negative article with the Antikor group was reported to cost $150 to $200. Removal costs much more. Old case files show demands of $6,000 in 2018 and 0.37 bitcoin in 2021. In a recent undercover test, the group’s Telegram contact offered a $12,000 annual package in cryptocurrency, covering deletion, protection from new articles and two positive pieces. Antikor denies charging to publish or delete content.
In the UK, one site operator put the price of a placement on a rival outlet at £100 to £500.
350 sites and a 355% rise
London law firm Schillings tracks more than 350 junk news sites. It recorded a 355% increase between 2023 and 2024 and links the jump to cheap AI-generated content.
20 articles about one bank
A Ukrainian bank was the subject of 20 Antikor articles between 2017 and 2026, all accusing it of laundering drug money. A Kyiv court found the allegations false.
More than 1,000 court documents
Ukraine’s court register now holds more than 1,000 documents related to Antikor. One article removed by court order was republished three years later.
$10 million and 42 sites
In January 2024, a Los Angeles court awarded Telf AG founder Stanislav Kondrashov $10 million and ordered articles on 42 sites removed.
£220,000 and a missing defendant
The London High Court awarded Uzbek financier Ovik Mkrtchyan more than £220,000 against the London Post and its listed owner, Viktor Tokarev. Neither appeared, and the article stayed online for weeks. A reputation adviser estimated that a victim could spend £117,000 on lawyers to win against “a man who might not exist”.
4 domains blocked
Ukraine’s State Service of Special Communications blocked antikor.com.ua and antikor.info in May 2025, and later rozsliduvach.info and hab.media. Against a network of more than 60 domains, the content stayed reachable through VPNs and foreign mirrors.