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Is my site blocked in Denmark?
After Danish court rulings, internet providers block illegal gambling and pirate sites in their DNS (the internet's address book, which turns a domain name into a server address) and show a block page instead. In March 2012 a police error put about 8,000 legitimate domains, Google and Facebook among them, on the child-abuse filter of two smaller providers for several hours. Teleindustrien, the telecom industry association, publishes its copyright, gambling, EU-sanctions and other block lists as searchable plain files; the child-abuse filter list is not among them.
Sources: Danish Gambling Authority, 19 August 2026 · Teleindustrien, copyright blocking, accessed November 2026 · EDRi, 14 March 2012 · EFF, 7 March 2012 · Teleindustrien, block lists, November 2026
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Who can get a site blocked in Denmark?
The Danish Gambling Authority (Spillemyndigheden) can, through the courts. When it finds a site offering illegal gambling to Danes, it first asks the operator to stop. If that does not work, it asks the telecom providers to block the site. The providers want a court ruling that the site is illegal, so the authority goes to court, which takes time. On 8 July 2026 the court at Frederiksberg ruled that Danish providers must block 98 gambling sites; as of August 2026, 870 gambling sites had been blocked since 2012. The block sits in the DNS of each visitor's provider, and visitors see a page saying the site is illegal and blocked by the Gambling Authority.
Source: Danish Gambling Authority, 19 August 2026
In 2025 the authority obtained court orders to block 334 websites. Its report on that year, published on 9 July 2026, describes a new cooperation agreement with Teleindustrien. Once a court has ruled a site's content illegal, a mirror site (a copy under a new address) can be blocked without a prior court order.
Source: Danish Gambling Authority, 9 July 2026
For piracy, rights holders ask a court to order a block, for example through the Rights Alliance (Rettighedsalliancen). In June 2025 it asked the courts to make Danish providers block the 10 most popular illegal IPTV services (subscriptions that stream TV, such as football matches, over the internet). It acted on behalf of Danish league football (Divisionsforeningen and Superligaen A/S).
Source: Rights Alliance, 11 June 2025
Under Teleindustrien's code of conduct with the Rights Alliance, when a court orders one provider to block a site, all Teleindustrien members block it too. They include YouSee, Telmore, TDC, Telenor, 3, Norlys, Fibia/Waoo and Hiper. The block page points to sharewithcare.dk, an overview of legal content services. Since 2014 the code has let a block follow a site to a new address without a new court ruling, if the rights holder shows it is the same site. The Rights Alliance finds such addresses and passes them to the providers.
Sources: Teleindustrien, copyright blocking, accessed November 2026 · Teleindustrien, members, November 2026 · Teleindustrien, code of conduct, 24 September 2014 (Danish) · Rights Alliance, 22 May 2020 (Danish)
Does Denmark block sites under EU sanctions?
Yes. EU sanctions on Russia oblige Danish providers to block a number of websites. Teleindustrien keeps the list of domains, which includes rt.com and sputniknews.com, and recommends that providers block them. In March 2022 it asked the Ministry of Culture which sites were meant. Since 31 March 2025 it has updated the list from public lists by the Finnish regulator Traficom and the Austrian regulator RTR. The suggested block text begins "Denne hjemmeside er blokeret" (this website is blocked).
Sources: Teleindustrien, block lists, November 2026 · Teleindustrien, sanctions list, May 2025
How did a police list block Google in 2012?
In an undated post, Teleindustrien describes an industry agreement with the National Police (Rigspolitiet) and Save the Children Denmark (Red Barnet) to block child sexual abuse material without court orders. In 2012 the police supplied the list of domains, and the providers loaded it into their DNS servers automatically.
Sources: Teleindustrien, undated post on terror propaganda and the child-abuse filter · EDRi, 14 March 2012
On the morning of 1 March 2012, a police officer investigating websites accidentally copied a list of about 8,000 legitimate domains, Google and Facebook among them, into the folder used to update the filter. For several hours, customers of Siminn Denmark and Tele Greenland who opened those sites got the filter's STOP page instead. It warned that they were trying to reach child abuse material, which is illegal even to view in Denmark. Only these two smaller providers were hit, because they loaded that day's update first; EDRi noted it could just as well have been TDC, the largest. Siminn's support staff alerted the police at once, the list went no further, and the police promised extra checks. Nothing had changed on the blocked sites' own servers: the block lived in two providers' DNS.
Sources: EDRi, 14 March 2012 · EFF, 7 March 2012
If a court-ordered block catches your site by mistake, Teleindustrien's page says the block can be lifted once a court cancels the blocking order.
Source: Teleindustrien, block lists, November 2026
Where can I look up Denmark's block lists?
Search the lists. Teleindustrien's blocking page links plain files with one domain per line for copyright, gambling, EU sanctions and sites blocked under the Administration of Justice Act (the Danish law on court procedure), among others. The files carry no dates, so they show whether a domain is listed, not since when. The Gambling Authority's news item on the 98 sites links a PDF list of blocked websites.
Sources: Teleindustrien, block lists, November 2026 · Danish Gambling Authority, 19 August 2026
Each provider puts the blocks into its own DNS. Under the piracy code, Teleindustrien's members apply a ruling within 7 working days of being notified. So a site that opens on one Danish provider can still be blocked on another. OONI Explorer shows volunteers' tests from Danish connections, as recent as 11 November 2026, of the sites on OONI's test lists. Uptime monitors check from datacenters, not from Danish home or mobile lines, so they do not see blocks like these; our note explains why.
Sources: Teleindustrien, copyright blocking, accessed November 2026 · OONI measurement data (raw), 11 November 2026 · OONI, test lists, accessed November 2026
We do not measure Denmark yet; demand decides the order in which we add countries. A check there would have to cover the copyright, gambling and EU-sanctions lists that Teleindustrien publishes, provider by provider. Today linkspect is open in early access in Germany, Poland and Norway.
Facts checked on 11 November 2026.