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This happened to me and I found this tool super helpful to get my site unblocked: https://dnsblacklist.org/ https://dnsblacklist.org/ I purchased a valuable pr

This happened to me and I found this tool super helpful to get my site unblocked: https://dnsblacklist.org/ https://dnsblacklist.org/ I purchased a valuable premium domain to host a personal art collection (of anime cels). For some bizarre reason, the site was inaccessible from my work computer and it was de-listed from Google even if I typed the url itself into search. I hired a square space specialist to figure out why, to no avail. I then begged our company’s CISO to investigate and it turns out we had some firewall setting on UniFi that blocked the domain because it appeared on a list. Once I checked way back, it turns out that it was as an anime porn aggregator years back. I personally reached out to all the web filters out there (Google, Symantec, bing) and one by one filed tickets for them to mark it as art instead of pornography and it worked. I am now properly crawled on Google but still MIA on Bing, search console is giving me some BS error that’s incomprehensible, typical of MSFT.

a_t48 2y ago
I'd be somewhat interested in seeing the cels. :)
- lefstathiou 2y ago
  https://www.neotokyo.com https://www.neotokyo.com I have a +100 cel backlog that I need to catalog and photograph. Was planning to do it this holiday season so check back in.
  - Dalewyn 2y ago
    I... actually remember that address floating around and it indeed was hentai. We're talking like 20 years back. Holy shit, my brain is getting jostled by this sudden tsunami of forgotten memories. EDIT: Digging around on Wayback Machine (obviously NSFW, for the curious), apparently it was actually still around until somewhere between 2018 and '19 when it finally died. The snapshots from around 2007 are peak Web 1.5 design with stuff like affiliate buttons and table layouts. Man I miss that era.
  - postcert 2y ago
    You have some awesome cells, thanks for sharing them online. Had completely forgotten about Robot Carnival and neat to see you have a few pieces from some of the shorts(episodes?) Also the resources->galleries was useful, found some new but actually old sites to check out.
    - lefstathiou 2y ago
      I love RC and many of my wishlist items are from it. I regret I was relatively late into collecting it. Glad you appreciate the old galleries, many are internet relics which I love.
  - Citizen_Lame 2y ago
    Where does one buy cells, apart from ebay?
    - postcert 2y ago
      There's actually a page on their site under resources for that: https://www.neotokyo.com/anime-cel-dealers-and-resources https://www.neotokyo.com/anime-cel-dealers-and-resources Yahoo Auctions is more popular over there and proxy services (I use Buyee) make it pretty simple bid/buy and not too much more expensive if you wait for their (Buyee) coupons.
  - your_challenger 2y ago
    Great domain name! I can see why you went through the effort of contacting all the web filters.
  - internet101010 2y ago
    Did you get anything from the Heritage auction last week? They had a ton of good stuff.
    - lefstathiou 2y ago
      I watched closely and bid on a few but didn’t pull trigger. I am eyeing a few private pieces and saving my budget.
  - 317070 2y ago
    It is also blocked by the UK ISP porn filter.
    - hggigg 2y ago
      Does that still exist? I got a decent ISP (Zen) so they don't block anything.
  - amy-petrik-214 2y ago
    Ah great! Such nostalgia for that site, they had the -best- porn back in the old days, one of my favorite pron sites.
edm0nd 2y ago
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- getlawgdon 2y ago
  Ooooor, it could be, like, a person helping another person out, or something like that, you know?
- rjbwork 2y ago
  Turns out humans are not soulless automatons and like to do favours for the people they work with and are friendly with from time to time.
- 0xFACEFEED 2y ago
  > not what work resources are for Employees are not robots. They are human beings. Sometimes human beings have human problems that need the assistance of other humans. This makes humans happier and more productive. It's depressing to think that there are people who actually believe that optimal use of work resources is even worth calling out as an issue. In 2024.
  - kortilla 2y ago
    >actually believe that optimal use of work resources is even worth calling out as an issue. Setting aside moral arguments, if it raises to the level of embezzlement, it’s a crime.
    - jmb99 2y ago
      I think (hope) the vast majority of people do not believe that asking the CSIO why their website is blocked is embezzlement.
- eru 2y ago
  If you want your employees able to deal with emergencies, you can't run them at 100% capacity all the time. You need some slack, so you have capacity when shit hits the fan. Using a small amount of that slack to keep another employee happy can be a good investment. In addition, it's good for someone like the CISO to poke around the innards of your network (etc) configs from time to time, just to stay up to date with what's going on in the company and to perhaps flag anything that smells suspicious. You can do these kinds of exploration exercises completely free form, or you can take a little task like 'figure out exactly why this specific site is blocked' as a token of motivation. I agree that all of this mostly only makes sense, if it doesn't take too much time. Though if this specific task would take a lot of time, that would also indicate that either the CISO needs to upskill, or the network config is too complicated. In either case, that would be a valuable insight.
ruthmarx 2y ago
> I hired a square space specialist I had no idea such a thing existed. If you can set up your own domain why would you need someone that specializes in a super limited non technical frontend for customizing prebuilt web templates?
- lefstathiou 2y ago
  In hindsight I didn’t need him. I am pretty technical but I couldn’t figure out what happened so I hired some squarespace seo guy to make sure I had everything configured properly. It was the first and only time I heard of this happening.
veunes 2y ago
It’s wild how these past associations can stick and haunt a domain, even after it’s changed hands entirely.

a_t48 2y ago

I'd be somewhat interested in seeing the cels. :)

lefstathiou 2y ago
https://www.neotokyo.com https://www.neotokyo.com I have a +100 cel backlog that I need to catalog and photograph. Was planning to do it this holiday season so check back in.
- Dalewyn 2y ago
  I... actually remember that address floating around and it indeed was hentai. We're talking like 20 years back. Holy shit, my brain is getting jostled by this sudden tsunami of forgotten memories. EDIT: Digging around on Wayback Machine (obviously NSFW, for the curious), apparently it was actually still around until somewhere between 2018 and '19 when it finally died. The snapshots from around 2007 are peak Web 1.5 design with stuff like affiliate buttons and table layouts. Man I miss that era.
- postcert 2y ago
  You have some awesome cells, thanks for sharing them online. Had completely forgotten about Robot Carnival and neat to see you have a few pieces from some of the shorts(episodes?) Also the resources->galleries was useful, found some new but actually old sites to check out.
  - lefstathiou 2y ago
    I love RC and many of my wishlist items are from it. I regret I was relatively late into collecting it. Glad you appreciate the old galleries, many are internet relics which I love.
- Citizen_Lame 2y ago
  Where does one buy cells, apart from ebay?
  - postcert 2y ago
    There's actually a page on their site under resources for that: https://www.neotokyo.com/anime-cel-dealers-and-resources https://www.neotokyo.com/anime-cel-dealers-and-resources Yahoo Auctions is more popular over there and proxy services (I use Buyee) make it pretty simple bid/buy and not too much more expensive if you wait for their (Buyee) coupons.
- your_challenger 2y ago
  Great domain name! I can see why you went through the effort of contacting all the web filters.
- internet101010 2y ago
  Did you get anything from the Heritage auction last week? They had a ton of good stuff.
  - lefstathiou 2y ago
    I watched closely and bid on a few but didn’t pull trigger. I am eyeing a few private pieces and saving my budget.
- 317070 2y ago
  It is also blocked by the UK ISP porn filter.
  - hggigg 2y ago
    Does that still exist? I got a decent ISP (Zen) so they don't block anything.
- amy-petrik-214 2y ago
  Ah great! Such nostalgia for that site, they had the -best- porn back in the old days, one of my favorite pron sites.

edm0nd 2y ago

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getlawgdon 2y ago
Ooooor, it could be, like, a person helping another person out, or something like that, you know?
rjbwork 2y ago
Turns out humans are not soulless automatons and like to do favours for the people they work with and are friendly with from time to time.
0xFACEFEED 2y ago
> not what work resources are for Employees are not robots. They are human beings. Sometimes human beings have human problems that need the assistance of other humans. This makes humans happier and more productive. It's depressing to think that there are people who actually believe that optimal use of work resources is even worth calling out as an issue. In 2024.
- kortilla 2y ago
  >actually believe that optimal use of work resources is even worth calling out as an issue. Setting aside moral arguments, if it raises to the level of embezzlement, it’s a crime.
  - jmb99 2y ago
    I think (hope) the vast majority of people do not believe that asking the CSIO why their website is blocked is embezzlement.
eru 2y ago
If you want your employees able to deal with emergencies, you can't run them at 100% capacity all the time. You need some slack, so you have capacity when shit hits the fan. Using a small amount of that slack to keep another employee happy can be a good investment. In addition, it's good for someone like the CISO to poke around the innards of your network (etc) configs from time to time, just to stay up to date with what's going on in the company and to perhaps flag anything that smells suspicious. You can do these kinds of exploration exercises completely free form, or you can take a little task like 'figure out exactly why this specific site is blocked' as a token of motivation. I agree that all of this mostly only makes sense, if it doesn't take too much time. Though if this specific task would take a lot of time, that would also indicate that either the CISO needs to upskill, or the network config is too complicated. In either case, that would be a valuable insight.

ruthmarx 2y ago

> I hired a square space specialist I had no idea such a thing existed. If you can set up your own domain why would you need someone that specializes in a super limited non technical frontend for customizing prebuilt web templates?

lefstathiou 2y ago
In hindsight I didn’t need him. I am pretty technical but I couldn’t figure out what happened so I hired some squarespace seo guy to make sure I had everything configured properly. It was the first and only time I heard of this happening.

veunes 2y ago

It’s wild how these past associations can stick and haunt a domain, even after it’s changed hands entirely.