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Is my site blocked in the Netherlands?
Dutch internet providers block pirate sites named in court orders won by the anti-piracy foundation BREIN, and Russian state media under EU sanctions, mainly in their DNS (the internet's address book). In December 2025 Ziggo used a sanctions list, built by the trade group NLconnect from other countries' lists, which also held unrelated sites such as the Chinese social network Weibo. For sanctions, each provider judges new mirror sites (copies under another address) itself, so blocks can differ by provider; you can search the regulator ACM's list and Freedom Internet's list on GitHub.
Sources: BREIN, about us, checked 11 November 2026 · TorrentFreak, 5 November 2021 · ACM, 8 March 2022 · BREIN, annual report 2024 · NLconnect, 26 August 2026 · TorrentFreak, 17 December 2025 · Freedom Internet, 2 February 2026 · ACM guidance, 26 August 2026 · Freedom Internet blocklist, GitHub, checked 11 November 2026
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How do copyright blocks work in the Netherlands?
BREIN is a foundation through which makers and publishers of music, film, books and games fight piracy. BREIN and the Federatie Auteursrechtbelangen (Federation of Copyright Interests) made a covenant (a written agreement) with Delta Fiber, KPN, M7, T-Mobile (now called Odido) and Ziggo. The trade group NLconnect took part on behalf of 16 smaller providers. The covenant has been in force since 25 October 2021. When a court orders one of these providers to block a pirate site, the others block it too. BREIN keeps the block lists up to date. The covenant says BREIN must take providers to court one at a time, in alphabetical order. Recent cases: on 1 November 2024 the Rotterdam court ordered Odido to block the torrent site TorrentGalaxy, and on 30 October 2026 the same court ordered KPN to block the pirate book sites Z-Library and Oceanofpdf.
Sources: BREIN, about us, checked 11 November 2026 · Letter to the Tweede Kamer, 4 November 2021 · TorrentFreak, 5 November 2021 · Bright, 1 April 2022 · RCR Wireless, 6 September 2023 · BREIN, 12 November 2024 · BREIN, 30 October 2026
The orders also cover a blocked site's new addresses. When a blocked site moves to a new domain name, or shows up as a proxy or mirror (a copy under another address), BREIN can have that blocked too without a new court case. BREIN's 2024 annual report says the blocks are made in DNS, which turns a domain name into a server address. BREIN's 2025 report says that on average more than 500 domain names were blocked at Dutch providers in 2025. Among its actions that year it lists 303 domain names and 8 IP addresses (the numeric addresses of servers) blocked under these orders. In November 2024 BREIN said that in six years it had got more than 2,000 domains blocked. Most were unblocked again once the sites shut down.
Sources: BREIN, 30 October 2026 · BREIN, annual report 2024 · BREIN, annual report 2025, 28 May 2026 · BREIN, 12 November 2024
Providers receive BREIN's copyright list through a secure server. As of June 2026, DNS4EU, a public DNS service run by the Czech company Whalebone without EU funding, had received that list but said it had not used it. In TorrentFreak's tests, blocked domains could still be reached through DNS4EU, also from the Netherlands. So two customers of the same provider can see different results, depending on which DNS service they use.
Source: TorrentFreak, 27 June 2026
Why are Russian media sites blocked?
EU sanctions in force since 2022 ban broadcasting RT, Sputnik and other Russian media named in them, and the regulator ACM (Authority for Consumers and Markets) says providers must not help spread them online. On 8 March 2022 VodafoneZiggo, T-Mobile and KPN blocked the RT and Sputnik websites. ACM said the same day that this was allowed: net-neutrality rules, which oblige providers to treat all traffic equally, make an exception for complying with EU law.
Sources: ACM guidance, 26 August 2026 · NOS, 8 March 2022 · ACM, 8 March 2022
On 26 August 2026 ACM published a new, longer list of websites of sanctioned media. Its March 2022 list had named only five RT and Sputnik websites. ACM says the new list is not complete: new mirror sites can fall under the sanctions too, providers must judge those themselves, and they should be cautious about blocking sites that are not on the list. If your site is on ACM's list by mistake, tell ACM at acm.nl/contact; anyone can also report a missing site. NLconnect says providers can block the listed domains in their DNS. At Freedom Internet, for example, the DNS points visitors of a blocked site to Freedom's own website, so the browser shows a certificate warning (a sign that the server is not the site the visitor asked for).
Sources: ACM guidance, 26 August 2026 · ACM news, 26 August 2026 · ACM, 8 March 2022 · NLconnect, 26 August 2026 · Freedom Internet, 7 September 2026
Can a sanctions list or a BREIN court order catch my site?
It has happened with sanctions. ACM had not updated its five-site list since March 2022, and the government refused to provide a new one. So by December 2025 NLconnect had built a reference list for its members. It merged the lists of regulators in Germany, Austria, Estonia, Finland and Lithuania with one from the Danish association Teleindustrien. The list also held unrelated sites, such as the social networks Weibo and ShareChat. TorrentFreak confirmed that Ziggo used the list. By early February 2026, at ACM's request, NLconnect had dropped the whole Lithuanian part, which mixed EU sanctions with a broader Lithuanian law. According to the provider Freedom Internet, that cut the list from 797 to 335 domains.
Sources: TorrentFreak, 17 December 2025 · NLconnect reference list (PDF), 15 December 2025 · Freedom Internet, 2 February 2026
Court orders can cover IP addresses too: the Odido order of November 2024 named TorrentGalaxy's IP address as well as its domain names. A block on an IP address cuts off every site on that address. If the address belongs to a CDN (a network, such as Cloudflare's, that serves many sites from the same addresses), unrelated sites can become unreachable too. Cases from Spain, Italy and Austria: Collateral blocking in Europe.
Source: BREIN, 12 November 2024
Can the Dutch gambling regulator block sites?
Not as of 11 November 2026. The 2019 law on online gambling lets the gambling regulator, the Kansspelautoriteit (Ksa), order a provider to make data inaccessible, with a judge's prior approval. This does not include tampering with, blocking or filtering internet traffic, including DNS traffic. In July 2016 the Tweede Kamer (the lower house of parliament) voted to keep DNS and other internet filtering out of the Ksa's hands. In September 2025 the Ksa's chair told the public broadcaster NOS that the Ksa had no power to get illegal gambling sites blocked. On 12 June 2026 the Dutch government said it was working with the Ksa on new tools, such as blocking illegal websites, and would write them into a bill.
Sources: Staatsblad 2019, 127, article 34n, 27 March 2019 · SIDN, 11 July 2016 · NOS, 2 September 2025 · Rijksoverheid, 12 June 2026
How do I search ACM's and Freedom Internet's lists?
For sanctions, search ACM's list (a PDF) and Freedom Internet's sanctions blocklist on GitHub (a text file of the domains its DNS blocks). OONI Explorer has volunteers' tests from Dutch connections, some from 11 November 2026, but only for sites someone chose to test. OONI warns that a result marked as a possible block (an "anomaly") can be wrong.
Sources: ACM, 26 August 2026 · Freedom Internet blocklist, GitHub, checked 11 November 2026 · OONI, OONI Explorer guide, checked 11 November 2026 · OONI measurements, 11 November 2026
Does linkspect measure the Netherlands?
We do not measure the Netherlands 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.