[stevenicr]

not sure if I was clear enough for the downvoters to get it, ddos the ips and have DO charge the spammers / hackers a fee is the point..

Not that I advocate for ddos - I think it's a terrible thing, and I've been through it a few times.

DO and OVH are my most blocked ip blocks on several servers. I also get some hetzner and aws and microsoft blocks a lot among others sure.

Interesting that I just launched a brand new WP on a brand new domain, and in less than 24 hours half of the hack attempts are from DO ips.

You could lecture me about reporting and blah blah. I've been down those roads spending literal months doing that. With DO's cheap boxes and rotating IPs it's not worth it, I just block the entire CIDR every time, today it's 157.245.0.0/16 and 174.138.0.0/17

If DO was serious about stopping these abuses they would offer a WP plugin or opt-in setting that could check data from wordfence and similar and easily see which of their boxes are being used to hack into sites, all this could be automatic, without the form filling and delays that are required.