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Is my site blocked in Spain?
During football broadcasts, providers such as Movistar, Orange, Vodafone and DIGI block the IP addresses (the numeric addresses of servers) of pirate streams under Barcelona court orders, and a 2026 ruling lets Telefónica extend this to other sport it holds the rights to. These IP blocks also catch any legitimate site that shares such an address on a CDN, a network such as Cloudflare's that serves many sites from the same addresses. On most networks the blocks start shortly before a match and end soon after it, so only a test from inside these networks during a broadcast shows them.
Sources: OONI, 30 June 2026 · LaLiga, 26 March 2025 · Xataka Móvil, 14 April 2026
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Why does my site fail in Spain during football matches?
In December 2024, Barcelona's Commercial Court No. 6 ordered the blocking of IP addresses used to distribute LaLiga's broadcasts without permission. LaLiga runs this anti-piracy effort with Telefónica, its broadcasting partner. The order allows "dynamic" blocks, which means new addresses can be added to the block list without a judge looking at each one. In March 2025 the same court rejected attempts by Cloudflare and others to have the ruling cancelled. The December 2024 order covers three seasons from 2024/25 and expires on 20 June 2027.
Sources: OONI, 30 June 2026 · Confilegal, 16 May 2025 · LaLiga, 26 March 2025 · Xataka Móvil, 17 August 2026
A later Barcelona ruling, of 23 March 2026, goes further. It lets Telefónica Audiovisual Digital, part of the Telefónica group, have IP addresses, web addresses and domain names blocked while sport it holds the rights to is broadcast live. That includes LaLiga and the Champions League, and also tennis and golf. It binds every provider, national, regional or local. Blocks under it began in April 2026, during the Champions League quarter-finals.
Sources: Xataka Móvil, 14 April 2026 · Confilegal, 16 May 2025 · elhacker.net, 15 April 2026
How many sites get caught?
What OONI, an open project that measures internet censorship, found:
- Domains. OONI compared the IP addresses it saw blocked between 1 January and 1 June 2026 with the addresses of 9.2 million popular domains. Of these, 554,507 (5.8%) were on a blocked address at some point during match broadcasts.
- Cloudflare. 501,305 of the affected domains, 90.4%, were on Cloudflare.
- One hour. In a single one-hour measurement window, blocks on 4 to 20 IP addresses affected more than 400,000 domains.
- Networks. Blocks showed up on networks including Telefónica (behind the Movistar and O2 brands), Orange, MásMóvil, Vodafone, Vodafone ONO, Euskaltel and DIGI. Telefónica was among those that applied them most consistently.
- Examples. Affected domains included those of Linux Mint (linuxmint.com), Goodreads (www.goodreads.com) and HashiCorp's Terraform registry for developers (registry.terraform.io).
OONI says the real numbers are probably higher, and that Cloudflare sponsored part of the work.
Sources: OONI, 30 June 2026 · Xataka Móvil, 14 April 2026
In September 2025 the Spanish tech site RedesZone listed the forum ForoCoches and the online shop Miravia among sites the blocks had hit. In April 2026 Xataka, another Spanish tech site, reported that the blocks had again hit Docker and GitHub, services that developers depend on.
Sources: RedesZone, 22 September 2025 · Xataka, 15 April 2026
More cases: Collateral blocking in Europe.
What do Movistar, O2 and DIGI customers see during a match?
During a matchday block, visitors rarely see a notice. On most networks the connection to your server never opens. Movistar and O2 silently throw away the connection attempts, so the page keeps loading until the browser shows a connection error. DIGI instead answers with a certificate of its own (the digital ID a site shows the browser to prove who it is). No recognised authority vouches for it, so browsers do not trust it and show visitors a security warning. OONI found this on 7,334 IP addresses hosting 10,759 domains. On a matchday in September 2025, RedesZone saw Movistar, O2 and DIGI block on and off. A page failed at first and opened when reloaded a few seconds later. So a customer may complain during a match while your server logs show nothing. The blocked visits never reached your server.
Sources: OONI, 30 June 2026 · RedesZone, 22 September 2025
Who else has sites blocked in Spain?
A copyright body at the Ministry of Culture, the Second Section of its Intellectual Property Commission, can order a site that infringes copyright to suspend its service or to remove the content. The Ministry publishes the blocked domain names as PDF lists. On 11 November 2026, the lists were dated 4 November 2026. A domain can be blocked without being on these lists. In September 2026 Xataka reported that archive.today was missing from the Ministry's list, yet O2 blocked it with the Ministry's warning "Está usted intentando acceder a un sitio web ilegal" (you are trying to access an illegal website). Vodafone showed its own notice, "Por causas ajenas a Vodafone, esta web no está disponible" (for reasons beyond Vodafone's control, this website is not available). DIGI did not block it at all.
Sources: Ministry of Culture, Second Section's functions, checked 11 November 2026 · Ministry of Culture, blocked sites lists, 4 November 2026 · Xataka, 18 September 2026
To offer online gambling in Spain you need a Spanish licence; licences from other countries do not count. The gambling regulator DGOJ can have an unlicensed site blocked as a precaution, and internet providers cooperate by cutting access. In May 2026 the Consumer Affairs Ministry ordered Polymarket and Kalshi, two prediction markets (sites where people bet on future events), blocked across Spain until its case against them is decided.
Sources: DGOJ, checked 11 November 2026 · Ministry of Social Rights, Consumer Affairs and Agenda 2030, May 2026
Vodafone's own security filter can also stop visitors. On its business mobile tariffs, Vodafone says this filter, Secure Net, comes switched on by default. It blocks pages it considers potentially harmful, and the user can choose to continue.
Source: Vodafone business mobile tariffs, checked 11 November 2026
How can I check my site from Spain?
- Search OONI Explorer, an open archive of network tests, for your domain in Spain. Volunteers run the tests, so it shows a matchday block only if someone happened to test your domain during a broadcast.
- Ask your host or Cloudflare whether your site's IP addresses are shared with other sites. In OONI's study, 90.4% of the affected domains were on Cloudflare.
- Test on Movistar, Orange, Vodafone and DIGI connections during a live football broadcast, and again after it. A test outside a broadcast will usually show nothing.
- Look up your domain in the Ministry of Culture's PDF lists; for a gambling site, check the DGOJ's list of licensed operators.
Sources: OONI Explorer, checked 11 November 2026 · OONI, 30 June 2026 · Ministry of Culture, 4 November 2026 · DGOJ, checked 11 November 2026
Does linkspect check Spain yet?
We ran our first measurements in Spain on 10 November 2026, outside football broadcast hours. Our checks cannot yet confirm blocks by IP address during broadcasts. For now, the most they can say is that the connection failed in a way that looks like an IP block during a broadcast, without confirming it. Spain is not open to customers yet; Germany, Poland and Norway are open in early access.
Facts checked on 11 November 2026.