[governance] DNS filtration activated for gambling websites in Bulgaria

[Daniel Kalchev]

This is a bit extreme statement.

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".

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.

At the end, this will result in ISPs that implement filtering losing 
customers, which will in turn result in the filters being removed.

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.
Things like this were already attempted few times to fight torrent 
sites, without anyone ever noticing.

By the way, may I ask why facebook.com and others are not being DNS 
filtered? There is lots of gambling in there! :)

Daniel

On 18.06.13 18:15, iliya.bazlyankov at uninet.bg wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
> 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.
> All ISPs have complied with the law, and now the domains from the list 
> resolve to 127.0.0.1
> Most of the websites are not even hosted in Bulgaria.
> An example site is _http://www.bet365.com_ <http://www.bet365.com/>
> If Google DNS and other providers are used, the websites are accessible.
> Here is the court order ,sent to all ISPs: 
> _http://www.dkh.minfin.bg/bg/pubs/2/548_ (in Bulgarian, but you see 
> the list there)
> Kind regards,
> Iliya Bazlyankov

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