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Is my site blocked in Belgium?
Belgium's main providers, such as Proximus, Telenet and Orange, block sites in DNS (the internet's address book, which turns a domain name into a server address) and show a warning page instead of the site. They do this for pirate sites on an official blocklist based on Brussels court orders, and for sites on the national anti-phishing list, where a real business can land if it ignores federal inspectors. You can search the piracy list and the Gaming Commission's list of blocked gambling sites; an anti-phishing block shows up as the warning page your visitors see.
Sources: ITdaily, 3 January 2023 · TorrentFreak, 23 February 2026 · L'Avenir, 26 November 2025 · FPS Economy, 9 September 2025 · Gaming Commission, November 2026
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What is the Belgian Anti-Phishing Shield, and can it hit a real business?
The Belgian Anti-Phishing Shield (BAPS) is a project of the Centre for Cybersecurity Belgium (CCB). As reported in January 2023, it works with the internet providers Proximus, Telenet, Orange and Belnet. When someone opens a link, the provider's DNS server checks the domain against a list of malicious sites. If it is listed, the visitor lands on a warning page; in January 2023 the CCB's page read "Waarschuwing, kwaadaardige website" (warning, malicious website) in four languages. Some entries come from suspicious messages people forward to Safeonweb, the CCB's reporting service; the CCB analyses a reported site before adding it.
Sources: ITdaily, 3 January 2023 · European Cybersecurity Competence Centre, 28 November 2023
The FPS Economy, the federal economy department, adds sites too. If its Economic Inspection finds a website breaking the law and the company does not fix it in time, or in fraud cases, the site can be blocked behind a warning page from the FPS Economy or Safeonweb. Once the company has brought its site into line and proved it, the FPS Economy removes its name from its public warnings and, if the site was blocked, makes it reachable again. In September 2025 it said it had used the shield against 30 sites, warning nearly 25,000 people, and had taken 8 sites off its list since early January, all of which had complied.
Source: FPS Economy, 9 September 2025
Who orders piracy blocks, and which providers apply them?
Since June 2024, an anti-piracy unit of the FPS Economy has carried out blocking orders that rights holders obtain from a judge at the Brussels business court. It publishes the list of blocked domains and has mirror sites (copies of a blocked site under a new address) blocked too. On 26 November 2025 it published an order telling Proximus, Telenet, Orange Belgium, DIGI and Mobile Vikings to block more pirate sites. Rights holders may submit up to 50 new domains a week; providers get five working days per approved update. A February 2026 order tells the same five to block by DNS. Visitors see a warning page that cites the court order.
Sources: FPS Economy, 5 June 2025 · TorrentFreak, 5 December 2025 · TorrentFreak, 23 February 2026 · L'Avenir, 26 November 2025
Why did OpenDNS leave Belgium, and must Google and Cloudflare block?
Some visitors use a public DNS service instead of their provider's. In late March 2025 the sports broadcaster DAZN won an order for Belgian football, including the Jupiler Pro League. It also covers Google, Cloudflare and Cisco's OpenDNS, with a fine of €100,000 for each day they do not comply. Google and Cloudflare complied. Cisco instead switched OpenDNS off in Belgium on 11 April 2025 and brought it back in July 2025, after a Brussels court suspended the order against it. All three challenged the order; on 20 August 2026 a judge at the French-speaking business court of Brussels upheld the DNS blocking.
Sources: TorrentFreak, 16 April 2025, updated · TorrentFreak, 17 September 2026
The three services were given three months to apply the ruling. Blocks are meant to start 90 minutes before kick-off, with no warning page required. TorrentFreak reported in September 2026 that the order's blocklist had grown to 258 domains. Cisco said it would appeal and pull OpenDNS out of Belgium again; in September 2026 it said OpenDNS was still available there.
Source: TorrentFreak, 17 September 2026
Not every order reaches public DNS services: those of November 2025 and February 2026 left them out. The February one, obtained by the broadcasters RTL Belgium and RTBF against five illegal TV-streaming services, still reaches Cloudflare where Cloudflare acts as a CDN (a network that serves many sites from shared servers) or host. So Cloudflare itself has to keep Belgian visitors away from these services, whichever provider they use.
Sources: TorrentFreak, 5 December 2025 · TorrentFreak, 23 February 2026
What is on the Gaming Commission's list?
The Gaming Commission (Kansspelcommissie, Commission des jeux de hasard) publishes its "List of illegal gambling sites blocked by the GC" as a web page, not a download. Each row gives the domain, the decision date and, once published, the date it appeared in the Belgian Official Gazette. Rows start in February 2012 and are numbered up to 1,053 as of November 2026, the latest decided on 30 October 2026; many early rows have no domain. The list includes polymarket.com (decided 30 January 2025), which offers prediction markets on real events, and kalshi.com (15 October 2026). Sites that can no longer be reached are removed after at least five years, and the Commission says the list is not exhaustive.
Sources: Gaming Commission, list of blocked sites, November 2026 · Gaming Commission, Illegal games of chance, November 2026 · CDC Gaming, 3 February 2025
Which Belgian blocklists can I search myself?
Search the Gaming Commission's list of blocked gambling sites and the piracy blocklist on the FPS Economy's website. Each court order names the providers that must apply it, so results can differ by provider. For the anti-phishing shield, check the FPS Economy's public warnings, linked from its September 2025 release, and ask affected customers what they see and which provider they use. OONI Explorer shows any censorship tests volunteers have run on your site from Belgian networks. Uptime monitors that test from datacenters, rather than from Proximus or Telenet lines, miss blocks like these; our note explains why.
Sources: TorrentFreak, 5 December 2025 · L'Avenir, 26 November 2025 · FPS Economy, 9 September 2025
We do not measure Belgium yet; demand decides the order in which we add countries. A check there would have to test each provider on its own and tell the anti-phishing warning from the piracy warning. Today linkspect is open in early access in Germany, Poland and Norway.
Facts checked on 11 November 2026.