[lefstathiou]

This happened to me and I found this tool super helpful to get my site unblocked: https://dnsblacklist.org/

I purchased a valuable premium domain to host a personal art collection (of anime cels). For some bizarre reason, the site was inaccessible from my work computer and it was de-listed from Google even if I typed the url itself into search.

I hired a square space specialist to figure out why, to no avail. I then begged our company’s CISO to investigate and it turns out we had some firewall setting on UniFi that blocked the domain because it appeared on a list. Once I checked way back, it turns out that it was as an anime porn aggregator years back. I personally reached out to all the web filters out there (Google, Symantec, bing) and one by one filed tickets for them to mark it as art instead of pornography and it worked. I am now properly crawled on Google but still MIA on Bing, search console is giving me some BS error that’s incomprehensible, typical of MSFT.

[a_t48]

I'd be somewhat interested in seeing the cels. :)

[lefstathiou]

https://www.neotokyo.com

I have a +100 cel backlog that I need to catalog and photograph. Was planning to do it this holiday season so check back in.

[Dalewyn]

I... actually remember that address floating around and it indeed was hentai.

We're talking like 20 years back. Holy shit, my brain is getting jostled by this sudden tsunami of forgotten memories.

EDIT: Digging around on Wayback Machine (obviously NSFW, for the curious), apparently it was actually still around until somewhere between 2018 and '19 when it finally died. The snapshots from around 2007 are peak Web 1.5 design with stuff like affiliate buttons and table layouts. Man I miss that era.

[317070]

It is also blocked by the UK ISP porn filter.

[hggigg]

Does that still exist? I got a decent ISP (Zen) so they don't block anything.

[amy-petrik-214]

Ah great! Such nostalgia for that site, they had the -best- porn back in the old days, one of my favorite pron sites.

[postcert]

You have some awesome cells, thanks for sharing them online. Had completely forgotten about Robot Carnival and neat to see you have a few pieces from some of the shorts(episodes?)

Also the resources->galleries was useful, found some new but actually old sites to check out.

[lefstathiou]

I love RC and many of my wishlist items are from it. I regret I was relatively late into collecting it. Glad you appreciate the old galleries, many are internet relics which I love.

[your_challenger]

Great domain name! I can see why you went through the effort of contacting all the web filters.

[internet101010]

Did you get anything from the Heritage auction last week? They had a ton of good stuff.

[lefstathiou]

I watched closely and bid on a few but didn’t pull trigger. I am eyeing a few private pieces and saving my budget.

[Citizen_Lame]

Where does one buy cells, apart from ebay?

[postcert]

There's actually a page on their site under resources for that: https://www.neotokyo.com/anime-cel-dealers-and-resources

Yahoo Auctions is more popular over there and proxy services (I use Buyee) make it pretty simple bid/buy and not too much more expensive if you wait for their (Buyee) coupons.

[ruthmarx]

> I hired a square space specialist

I had no idea such a thing existed.

If you can set up your own domain why would you need someone that specializes in a super limited non technical frontend for customizing prebuilt web templates?

[lefstathiou]

In hindsight I didn’t need him. I am pretty technical but I couldn’t figure out what happened so I hired some squarespace seo guy to make sure I had everything configured properly. It was the first and only time I heard of this happening.

[veunes]

It’s wild how these past associations can stick and haunt a domain, even after it’s changed hands entirely.