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by davidito 2400 days ago
Good luck with your project, it sounds interesting.

FYI, your domain is blocked by Cisco Umbrella (OpenDNS) as "This site is blocked due to a security threat that was discovered by the Cisco Umbrella security researchers." Not sure why, you might want to contact them.

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Thanks for the heads up. That's fascinating. Has anyone else ran into this before?
I ran into it this as well and the response from the folks running our block list said it triggered a "newly seen across all of OpenDNS" heuristic. This matches other similar blocks I've seen for newly registered gTLD domains.

Seems that this is the relevant documentation: https://support.umbrella.com/hc/en-us/articles/235911828-New...

Complete wild guess, but maybe it's because it matches an aggressive regex meant to match the pirate bay and derivatives.
Random cisco employee I annoedon IRC blocked my domain once, I complained to another cisco employee on another IRC and the block was promptly removed.

I don’t think they have much oversight over this stuff.

Probably just a tainted IP from Digital Ocean.