By
Khaled A., on February 22nd, 2010
Anime News Network (www.animenewsnetwork.com), a very popular Anime news website was suddenly blocked in Saudi Arabia sometime last week according to @Shinryoma.
Anime News Network was never blocked in the country. Anime is not porn, CITC.
Update: Thanks @Turke and @Missice81 for telling me this. Manga Fox ( www.mangafox.com ) a Manga source, as been blocked as [...]
By
Khaled A., on December 30th, 2009
Domain Tools (not blocked) is an online tool for webmasters. Their WHOIS service (formally known as whois.sc) is now blocked. The blocked URL is:
whois.domaintools.com
WHOIS is a harmless protocol used to look-up domain names, etc. There is no reason what so ever for having it blocked. Read more about WHOIS on Wikipedia.
To help getting it [...]
By
Khaled A., on December 7th, 2009
Google’s very own “Google Groups Guide” Google group is blocked for no known reason. This is a Google Groups help and support forum. Here’s more info about it:
The Google Groups Help Forum is the primary channel for getting your Groups questions answered. You’ll find that this community is always buzzing with activity. Get ready to [...]
By
Khaled A., on August 26th, 2009
Megaupload (www.megaupload.com) is a file hosting service similar to RapidShare. You can use it to send large files if you can’t email them. The Wikipedia article about it is inaccurate as it claims that KACST is responsible for blocking and we all know that CITC is handling it now.
I should add that RapidShare was blocked [...]
By
Khaled A., on August 2nd, 2009
The Google Wireless Transcoder is a simple tool that rearranges websites for mobile phone web browsers. This service is enabled by default on Google searches made on Nokia phones without an easy method to disable them.
The service is completely blocked in Saudi Arabia and most mobile phone users are annoyed by this block. It is [...]
By
Khaled A., on July 27th, 2009
Metacafe is a well known internet video website just like Youtube. While the original site www.metacafe.com is not blocked one of the static servers “s2.mcstatic.com” is blocked in Saudi Arabia. That server holds many of the JavaScript needed to run the site correctly so basically Metacafe is crippled now.
Let’s get it unlocked as soon as [...]
By
Khaled A., on June 26th, 2009
Update: this is a record time for CITC to unblock something. They will be blocking some individual accounts who are posting questionable content of p*rnographic nature.
Vox.com is a blogging service owned by Six Apart. It is a very popular social network platform.
Unfortunately I just found out that Vox is not blocked in Saudi Arabia! The [...]
By
Khaled A., on May 28th, 2009
The tinyurl untiny bookmarlet that we talked about was now updated. The new update was a response to a change in the Saudi Arabia Internet block of tinyurl.
You can get it here, just drag the “UnTiny” link to your bookmark toolbar. You can still resolve a tinyurl manually by visiting untiny.
By
Khaled A., on May 18th, 2009
tinyurl.com, a long url shortening service, has been blocked in Saudi Arabia for a very long long time. Internet.gov.sa and CITC did not give a real reason for blocking it. Even though many alternatives are available and not blocked.
Currently there are 2 methods of bypassing the block: using untiny.me, a short url parser developed by [...]
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