My blog gets blocked in the UAE

My blog is now mysteriously not accessible in the UAE. My readers in other countries of the world can still access the content. Visitors from the UAE get a Proxy timeout error.


Update: Adnan’s blog is also blocked inside UAE. Both of us had reported about the vulnerability in YouTube in our previous post. Hmm. Co-relation?

Any comments?

Shijaz Abdulla is a Partner Technology Advisor at Microsoft, helping their top tier partners build on their Microsoft practice. He is also a trusted advisor to medium enterprise customers in Qatar. He is a blogger, tech enthusiast, and a Microsoft evangelist.

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One comment on "My blog gets blocked in the UAE"

  1. Adnan Rafik says:

    O man this is me Adnan. I can access your blog from Dubai but have no idea when it will stopped. It is not a traditional block from Etislat. Seems something related to DNS. I wonder why would they do it.. I wonder who told them about our blog? Google or Youtube or
    Etisalat have been watching us?

    I presume they must be watching us now and I wonder they may stop our internet connection too :)

    What did we do wrong? did we really anything?

    I’m sure they there something technically wrong specially for our blogs and yes the TECHIES USER GROUP website.

    I don’t what to say ….?

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