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Is my site blocked in the United States?
US internet providers do not routinely block piracy sites, unlike those in the UK, Canada and Australia, and bills to change that had not passed by October 2026. A legitimate site can still lose US visitors: your site, or a service it uses, may shut out a whole state to follow that state's law; a home or school filter may block it by mistake; or a federal seizure, which has hit the wrong domains before, may replace it with a government warning page. To find out, use the Website Checker of Xfinity, a US home internet provider; look up your domain's registration record for signs of a seizure; and ask affected visitors which state they are in.
Sources: ITIF, 11 April 2025 · TorrentFreak, 3 October 2026 · CBS News Miami, 2 January 2025 · Xfinity, checked 11 November 2026 · The Markup, 13 April 2024 · Computerworld, 17 February 2011
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Do US providers block sites on court orders?
Not routinely. In April 2025 ITIF, a think tank that supports site blocking, said that over 40 countries block "egregious piracy sites", including the UK, Canada and Australia. US copyright law already lets a court order a provider to block a specific site outside the US, but only in a case against that provider.
Sources: ITIF, 11 April 2025 · US copyright law, section 512 (Cornell LII, checked 11 November 2026)
Two bills introduced in September 2026 would let federal courts order blocks of foreign pirate sites. Each would apply only to providers above a certain size. The DEFEND IP Act would cover broadband providers and public DNS services (which turn domain names into server addresses). The American Copyright Protection Act would cover internet providers, DNS services and also VPN services (which route traffic through their own servers). Neither had passed by October 2026. Both bills leave the method to each provider, so a provider could block by IP address (the numeric address of a server), which also cuts off unrelated sites that share it, as happened in Spain (see collateral blocking in Europe).
Sources: TorrentFreak, 3 October 2026 · EFF, 2 October 2026 · OONI, 30 June 2026
Why can't visitors from some states open my site?
A site, or a vendor it uses, can shut out a whole state to comply with its law. In June 2025 the Supreme Court upheld Texas's age-verification law for adult sites in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton, noting that at least 21 other states had similar rules. Pornhub's owner Aylo blocked Florida on 1 January 2025 rather than comply with the state's new law; it had already blocked 14 other states. A California law that took effect on 1 January 2026 bans online sweepstakes casinos (casino-style games with cash prizes). Companies that knowingly and willfully help run one in California can be liable too, including geolocation providers (services that tell a site where a visitor is).
Sources: Supreme Court, 27 June 2025 (Cornell LII) · CBS News Miami, 2 January 2025 · ZwillGen, 14 October 2025
A state block depends on knowing where a visitor is, which is not exact. Utah's Senate Bill 73 required adult sites to block VPN users or find out where they really are, although a site sees only the VPN server's address. In September 2026 federal judge David Barlow paused that part, acknowledging that "geolocation perfection is not presently possible." Utah's Department of Commerce said the rest of the law would be enforced statewide from 2 November 2026.
Sources: EFF, 1 October 2026 · Biometric Update, 3 November 2026
Can a filter at home or at school block my site?
Yes. Xfinity CyberSecure, formerly Advanced Security, comes with Xfinity's WiFi Shield for customers who rent a compatible Xfinity gateway (their home router). It can block "suspicious site visits" and "IP reputation threats", meaning connections to or from IP addresses with a bad record. It can also block only a risky part of a page, such as a banner ad. It does not run on gateways in bridge mode (when the customer uses their own router) and may not work as expected with Apple's iCloud Private Relay. So two Xfinity customers can get different results for the same site. If your site is blocked by mistake, Xfinity takes review requests at spa.xfinity.com and usually answers within three business days.
Sources: Xfinity FAQ, checked 11 November 2026 · Xfinity help, checked 11 November 2026
Under the Children's Internet Protection Act, schools and libraries with federal E-rate discounts on internet access or internal networks must use a web filter. It must block obscene and child abuse images for everyone, and images harmful to minors for users under 17. The Markup reported that "virtually all school districts buy web filters from companies that sort the internet into categories". In records from 16 districts in 11 states, it found students blocked from sites the filters labelled "education", "news" or "informational". Even nasa.gov turned up in the districts' block lists.
Sources: USAC, checked 11 November 2026 · The Markup, 13 April 2024 · The Markup newsletter, 13 April 2024
What happens when the US government seizes a domain?
A federal judge signs a seizure warrant, and the domain's registry (the company that runs an ending such as .com) points the domain to a government server that shows a warning. When the FBI's seizure of the RAMP ransomware forum came to light on 28 January 2026, the forum's name servers (which hold a domain's address records) had changed to ns1.fbi.seized.gov and ns2.fbi.seized.gov. Visitors saw "This site has been seized" with FBI and Justice Department seals.
Sources: Computerworld, 17 February 2011 · Infosecurity Magazine, 29 January 2026
On 11 February 2011 a federal operation against child abuse images wrongly seized 84,000 small websites under mooo.com, a domain where anyone could set up a free site. Visitors saw a notice about child pornography crimes. The seizure was reversed two days later; for technical reasons, it then took three days before the sites looked normal again. In early 2011 US authorities also seized rojadirecta.com and rojadirecta.org, the domains of a Spanish site that two Spanish courts had found legal; they were returned after the government dropped its case on 29 August 2012.
Sources: NBC News, 17 February 2011 · Computerworld, 17 February 2011 · EDRi, 12 September 2012
How do I tell a filter, a seizure and a state rule apart?
For Xfinity's filter, enter your site's web address in the Xfinity CyberSecure Website Checker. For a seizure, look up your domain in ICANN Lookup, a free tool from ICANN, the body that coordinates domain names. For generic endings such as .com, it shows current registration data from the registry and your registrar (the company you registered the domain with). After a seizure the name servers can change to government ones, as RAMP's did. For a state block, ask affected visitors which state they are in and what they see. Then compare that with the states you block and any geolocation provider's settings. A check from a datacenter only shows how your rule treats a datacenter address: why datacenter monitors miss provider blocks.
Sources: Xfinity FAQ, checked 11 November 2026 · ICANN, 29 July 2019 · ICANN, 27 January 2025 · Infosecurity Magazine, 29 January 2026
We do not measure the United States yet; demand decides the order in which we add countries. A US check would need home connections in several states, some of them on Xfinity with CyberSecure active. Today linkspect is open in early access in Germany, Poland and Norway.
Facts checked on 11 November 2026.