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Is my site blocked in Italy?
Several authorities can order Italian internet providers to block sites, among them the communications regulator AGCOM, whose Piracy Shield platform sends providers domain names and IP addresses (the numeric addresses of servers) to block, and the customs and monopolies agency ADM, which lists unlicensed gambling sites. In February 2024 one blocked Cloudflare address cut off tens of thousands of sites, according to Cloudflare; sharing an IP address with a pirate stream is how a legitimate site most often gets caught. You can check one domain or address at a time in AGCOM's lookup tool, and search ADM's downloadable list for gambling blocks.
Sources: Il Post, 21 October 2024 · TorrentFreak, 21 March 2024 · RIPE Labs, 29 September 2025 · ADM, updated 10 November 2026
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What is Piracy Shield, and why does it hit innocent sites?
Piracy Shield has run since 1 February 2024 under the anti-piracy law 93/2023. It started with live sport; since 15 September 2025 it also covers other live broadcasts and first-run films, series and music. Staff of rights holders such as Sky or DAZN upload a report with an IP address or a full domain name, subdomain included (for example live.example.com rather than example.com). The rest is almost fully automated: providers have 30 minutes to make the target unreachable and cannot refuse, even when they think it is a mistake. In January 2026 AGCOM said Piracy Shield had blocked more than 65,000 domain names and about 14,000 IP addresses since February 2024.
Sources: AGCOM, Piracy Shield platform, November 2026 · IRPA, 1 February 2026 · Il Post, 21 October 2024 · TorrentFreak, 21 March 2024 · ANSA, 8 January 2026
Many unrelated sites can share one IP address, for example on a CDN (a shared network, such as Cloudflare's, that serves many sites from the same addresses). Since October 2024 the law allows blocking IP addresses intended "prevalentemente" (mainly) for illegal activity, where it used to say "univocamente" (unambiguously). So an address no longer has to serve illegal activity alone to be blocked.
Sources: RIPE Labs, 29 September 2025 · Gazzetta Ufficiale, 8 October 2024 · Normattiva, Law 93/2023 of 14 July 2023, article 2
On Saturday 24 February 2024 a report blocked the Cloudflare address 188.114.97.7, and AGCOM's president later conceded "critical operational issues". On the evening of Saturday 19 October 2024 Piracy Shield blocked drive.usercontent.google.com by mistake, and Google Drive downloads failed in Italy for several hours. In September 2025 researchers at the University of Twente and colleagues reported on RIPE Labs that more than 500 blocked websites had nothing to do with streaming.
Sources: TorrentFreak, 21 March 2024 · Il Post, 21 October 2024 · RIPE Labs, 29 September 2025
Do public DNS services and VPNs have to block too?
Some visitors use a public DNS service such as Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 (DNS is the internet's address book: it turns a domain name into a server address), or a VPN, a service that routes their traffic through its own servers. Since October 2024 Italian law makes these services carry out Piracy Shield orders too, "wherever resident and wherever located", so even when the company is based abroad. On 23 May 2025 AGCOM tested this with Google's public DNS during two Serie A football matches, and the orders were carried out.
Sources: Gazzetta Ufficiale, 8 October 2024 (Law 143/2024) · AGCOM, 10 June 2025
At the end of 2025 AGCOM fined Cloudflare €14,247,698.56 for not applying a February 2025 order to block more than 15,000 domains and IP addresses; the regulator said 1.1.1.1 let Italian users get around existing blocks. In a judgment published on 17 July 2026, the regional administrative court of Lazio dismissed Cloudflare's appeals against the order and the fine; Cloudflare announced a further appeal to the Council of State. So a visitor who changed DNS settings may still hit a domain block, and an IP block by the provider does not depend on DNS at all.
Sources: heise online, 10 January 2026 · Diritto.it, 10 September 2026 · Hardware Upgrade, 20 July 2026 · IlSoftware, 11 June 2025
What is the ADM gambling blacklist?
ADM (Agenzia delle Dogane e dei Monopoli) publishes the list of unlicensed gambling sites that are blocked in Italy. Visitors to a listed domain are sent to an ADM notice page instead of the site. Since April 2026 that page has been sito-inibito-giochi.adm.gov.it, which replaces the fixed IP address 217.175.53.72; as of 11 November 2026, ADM keeps both active. If visitors in Italy who type your address see this ADM page, your domain is on the list. The list comes as a PDF and as a plain text file with one domain per line, plus a checksum file (to verify the download), so you can check it automatically.
Source: ADM, updated 10 November 2026
ADM's order of 10 November 2026 added 86 domains and gave providers until 25 November 2026 to block them, bringing the list to 13,163 domains, according to the gaming news agency Agimeg.
Sources: ADM, updated 10 November 2026 · Agimeg, 10 November 2026
Beyond piracy and gambling, AGCOM has providers block adult sites that do not check visitors' age (first orders in March 2026), and the financial regulator CONSOB has ordered 1,878 sites of unauthorised investment and crypto firms blacked out since July 2019 (as of 5 November 2026).
Sources: ANSA, 26 March 2026 · Teleborsa, 5 November 2026
Are children's SIM cards filtered?
Yes, when the SIM card is registered to a minor or uses an offer for minors. Since 21 November 2023, AGCOM rules require providers to switch on a free parental-control filter on those lines. The filter covers adult content, gambling and betting, weapons, violence and self-harm, hate and discrimination, practices harmful to health, online anonymity tools, and magic or esoteric practices. Only an adult account holder or a parent can turn it off. If your site fits one of these categories, some young visitors may not be able to open it.
Sources: AGCOM, updated 24 October 2024 · MondoMobileWeb, 21 November 2023
How do I look up a Piracy Shield block and ask AGCOM to lift it?
The Piracy Shield list is not public. Two lookup tools check one IP address or domain at a time: AGCOM's own at blocchips.agcom.it, and one run by the Italian provider Infotech at piracyshield.iperv.it, which only matches complete names and addresses. Check your domain and the IP addresses your site runs on (your hosting company or CDN can tell you which), because a block on a shared address affects every site on it. For gambling, search the ADM text file for your domain.
Sources: RIPE Labs, 29 September 2025 · Infotech, PiracyShield Search, November 2026
If your site was blocked by mistake, you can ask AGCOM to lift the block. Since October 2024 the law lets anyone who can show a direct interest make this request, with documents showing that the block does not meet, or no longer meets, the legal conditions. Domain names and IP addresses blocked for at least six months, and not found in illegal use, are also meant to be restored periodically. In practice, researchers found that blocks stay in place almost indefinitely. More on shared-address blocks in Spain, Italy and Austria: Collateral blocking in Europe.
Sources: Gazzetta Ufficiale, 8 October 2024 · RIPE Labs, 29 September 2025
Does linkspect measure Italy?
We do not measure Italy yet; demand decides the order in which we add countries. Today linkspect is open in early access in Germany, Poland and Norway.
Facts checked on 11 November 2026.