As some of you probably know, Zone-H has been banned from some Indian ISPs following the E2-labs scandals and a lawsuit from E2labs and Zaki Qureshey in an indian court, who claimed our documents and articles were defamatory (great joke!).
Zone- H was unable to defend itself as we didn’t receive any notification from the court. What is even funnier (scarier?), is that bloggernews.net has also been banned…
Check out their articles:
http://www.bloggernews.net/124029
http://www.bloggernews.net/124890
http://www.bloggernews.net/126528
http://www.bloggernews.net/126831
As you can see from the document they received, the blocking is directly linked to the same court order:
http://www.bloggernews.net/indepth/india/india3.jpg
http://www.bloggernews.net/indepth/india/india4.jpg
http://www.bloggernews.net/indepth/india/india5.jpg
http://www.bloggernews.net/indepth/india/india6.jpg
There is a great article on the Wall Street Journal about these decisions from Indian courts that directly attack free speech:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704396904576226460167553174.html
Anyway this news is for those indian visitors that cannot connect to Zone-H. You should know that the block is on the DNS of each ISP, this is why some visitors can visit Zone-H and some cannot.
There are some workarounds, the first one is to use a different DNS service, such as the Google DNS:
8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4
Second workaround: Use Tor, which also proxies DNS requests.
Another workaround is to use another Zone-H domain, we will try to make various DNS entries pointing to Zone-H. Just lookup the Zone-H IP and point a domain to it! An example of an unofficial domain:
www.zoneh.co.cc.
Other unofficial domains:
http://www.zoneh.us.to
http://zh.ignorelist.com
http://zoneh.i2w.net
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