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Is my site blocked in Greece?

Greek internet providers must block every site on the Hellenic Gaming Commission's list of unlicensed gambling operators, and a copyright committee, EDPPI, orders blocks by domain name or IP address (the numeric address of a server). The Commission's list can catch a site that is legal elsewhere but offers gambling to players in Greece without a Greek licence, and an EDPPI block on a pirate stream can also hit a site that shares its server address. To find out, search the Commission's list and EDPPI's recent decisions, and ask a visitor in Greece whether the site loads.

Sources: Taxheaven, Law 4002/2011 article 51, November 2026 · Hellenic Copyright Organisation, Law 2121/1993 article 66E (Greek text), November 2026 · EDPPI, decisions, November 2026

What is the Hellenic Gaming Commission's blacklist?

The Hellenic Gaming Commission (ΕΕΕΠ in Greek) keeps a list of unlicensed gambling operators under Article 48 of Law 4002/2011. By law, putting the list on its website is enough to count as official notice. In early October 2026 the list held 14,977 web addresses. A newer version, the 54th, came out on 30 October 2026 as an Excel file you can download. Under the Commission's rules, an unlicensed gambling site can be listed simply because people in Greece can open it.

Sources: Hellenic Gaming Commission, blacklist, 30 October 2026 · Taxheaven, Law 4002/2011 article 48, November 2026 · Eleftheros Typos, 6 October 2026

Every fixed-line and mobile internet provider registered with EETT, the telecoms regulator, must block listed sites promptly or face a fine. A June 2026 amendment (Law 5313/2026) sets out how. The Commission puts listed domain names on a block list on its own DNS server (DNS is the internet's address book, which turns names into server addresses). That server updates the DNS servers of internet providers in Greece, which then block access. The list can also hold IP addresses and mobile apps.

Sources: Taxheaven, Law 4002/2011 article 51, November 2026 · Taxheaven, Law 4002/2011 article 48, November 2026 · e-nomothesia, Law 5313/2026 (ΦΕΚ Α' 102/25.06.2026), article 63 · Skai, Gaming Commission Q&A, 8 July 2026

Can my .gr domain be switched off?

Yes, if the Commission links it to unlicensed gambling. Under the same amendment, EETT must send the Commission .gr and .ελ domain names every week (.ελ is the ending in Greek letters). The Commission keeps a list of gambling keywords and checks whether a name, or its site's content, points to unlicensed gambling. If so, it orders EETT to deactivate the domain for two months and then delete it from the registry. The domain name then stops working everywhere, not only in Greece. The law leaves it to a Commission decision to set how a holder can prove the name is not used for unlicensed gambling.

Sources: Taxheaven, Law 4002/2011 article 48, November 2026 · Skai, Gaming Commission Q&A, 8 July 2026

Who orders copyright blocks, and how fast?

EDPPI (in Greek ΕΔΠΠΙ) is a three-member committee: the president of the Hellenic Copyright Organisation and delegates of EETT and the data protection authority. Rights holders apply to it without going to court. If the content is on servers outside Greece, the committee tells internet providers to block it, and they must do so within 3 working days of receiving the decision. Each day they fail to comply can bring a fine of 500 to 1,000 euros.

Sources: Hellenic Copyright Organisation, Law 2121/1993 article 66E (Greek text), November 2026 · TorrentFreak, 19 February 2022

For a live event with a national or international audience, or for video works about to be broadcast or offered on demand, the committee can order web addresses, IP addresses or domain names blocked for at least 15 days. It must decide at least 24 hours before the broadcast. During the broadcast, the rights holder can send new addresses to EETT, which orders internet providers to block them. Providers with more than 20,000 subscribers must do so within 30 minutes of the order. An order can cover a whole domain, such as example.com, even when the stream is reached through a subdomain, such as live.example.com.

Source: Hellenic Copyright Organisation, Law 2121/1993 article 66E paragraph 10A (Greek text), November 2026

If your domain name or IP address is named in a live-event decision, you can appeal to the Administrative Court of Appeal of Athens within 10 days of being notified. Appealing does not pause the block. Other committee decisions can be appealed to the same court within 60 days of notification.

Sources: Hellenic Copyright Organisation, Law 2121/1993 article 66E (Greek text), November 2026 · EDPPI, frequently asked questions, November 2026

Can an EDPPI order against a pirate stream also block my site?

Yes, if your site shares the blocked address. In 2024 the committee issued 124 blocking decisions, which targeted 810 IP addresses and only 49 domain names. On a CDN (a network that serves many sites from shared addresses) or shared hosting, a block on one IP address hits every site that uses it. The whole-domain rule matters too if your platform gives users their own subdomains. For cases in Spain and Italy, see Collateral blocking in Europe.

Source: TorrentFreak, 21 February 2025

How do I find out if my site is blocked in Greece?

Search the Commission's blacklist for your domains. EDPPI publishes its decisions and two PDF block lists, one for ordinary decisions and one for live events. When we checked on 11 November 2026, both lists were out of date. The first had no entries after March 2025 and still included blocks that had ended. The second held only about 110 IP addresses, with no domain names or dates. A site missing from both lists can still be blocked, so also check recent decisions for your domains and your server's IP address, which your hosting provider or CDN can tell you.

Sources: EDPPI, decisions, November 2026 · EDPPI, block list for ordinary decisions, November 2026 · EDPPI, block list for live events, November 2026

Then ask an affected visitor what they see. The Gaming Commission's notice, in Greek and English, says the visitor tried to reach a site offering unlicensed gambling services. The copyright notice is in Greek only and begins "Η πρόσβαση στη σελίδα που προσπάθησες να επισκεφθείς έχει διακοπεί με απόφαση της ΕΔΠΠΙ" (access to the page you tried to visit has been cut off by an EDPPI decision). If they see one of these notices, or a block page from their own internet provider, your site is blocked, not down. But some blocks show no notice at all: a block on an IP address can simply make the page fail to load.

Sources: Hellenic Gaming Commission, notice page, November 2026 · Hellenic Copyright Organisation, EDPPI notice page, November 2026 · OONI, FAQ, November 2026

In OONI Explorer, a public archive of network tests run by OONI Probe users, look up your domain in tests from Greece. OONI confirms a block when it sees a known block page. For Greece these include the Gaming Commission's notice and http://1.2.3.50/ups/no_access, an address a provider in Greece sends blocked visitors to. Other warnings can be real blocks or false alarms, and no result usually means nobody in Greece has tested your site.

Sources: OONI, FAQ, November 2026 · OONI, blocking fingerprints, November 2026

We do not measure Greece yet; demand decides the order in which we add countries. A check there would have to cover both the Gaming Commission's DNS block list and the blocks added during a live broadcast, which providers with more than 20,000 subscribers must apply within 30 minutes. As of 11 November 2026, linkspect is open in early access in Germany, Poland and Norway.

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Facts checked on 11 November 2026.