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This is a bit extreme statement.<br>
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There are few hundred ISPs operating in Bulgaria and certainly many
of the bigger ISPs have not received such letter and thus not even
aware of the "order".<br>
<br>
Also, as already pointed out, such measures are extremely
ineffective. Users do not even need to use Google's or anyone else's
name service -- they just need to run their own recursive resolver.
Which most of the non-individual Internet users anyway already do.
As do most of the thousands micro-ISPs that operate "LAN networks"
in their neighborhoods.<br>
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At the end, this will result in ISPs that implement filtering losing
customers, which will in turn result in the filters being removed.<br>
<br>
Situations like this is one of the good examples of abysmal
regulation of Internet, when it comes from Governments. The typical
situation is that well paid, close-to-the-powers-of-the-day
"experts" consult on various Internet regulation topics and we
always end up with stupid situations.<br>
Things like this were already attempted few times to fight torrent
sites, without anyone ever noticing. <br>
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By the way, may I ask why facebook.com and others are not being DNS
filtered? There is lots of gambling in there! :)<br>
<br>
Daniel<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 18.06.13 18:15,
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:iliya.bazlyankov@uninet.bg">iliya.bazlyankov@uninet.bg</a> wrote:<br>
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<div>Dear colleagues,</div>
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<div>Today a DNS filtration was activated for a list of gambling
related websites in Bulgaria. This is because of a new law
that requires gambling websites to have license in order to be
active.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>All ISPs have complied with the law, and now the domains
from the list resolve to 127.0.0.1</div>
<div>Most of the websites are not even hosted in Bulgaria.</div>
<div>An example site is <a moz-do-not-send="true"
title="http://www.bet365.com/" href="http://www.bet365.com/"
target="_parent"><u><font color="#0066cc">http://www.bet365.com</font></u></a></div>
<div> </div>
<div>If Google DNS and other providers are used, the websites
are accessible.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Here is the court order ,sent to all ISPs: <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
title="http://www.dkh.minfin.bg/bg/pubs/2/548"
href="http://www.dkh.minfin.bg/bg/pubs/2/548"
target="_parent"><u><font color="#0066cc">http://www.dkh.minfin.bg/bg/pubs/2/548</font></u></a> (in
Bulgarian, but you see the list there)</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Kind regards,</div>
<div>Iliya Bazlyankov</div>
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