The ISP in my hometown (Albania + Kosovo) has decided to block my whole domain to my free legal streaming website because they also happen to offer IPTV services. I only found out after trying to access my site from Albania today, it just comes up with a “bad URL” request. The streams I serve on my site are public freely available TV channels, combined into a single page.<p>Since EU laws do not apply to neither of these countries, is there any course of action I can take to prevent this sort of monopoly going on?
Looks like this is the authority of regulation in Albania<p><a href="https://akep.al" rel="nofollow">https://akep.al</a><p>Usually a telecom operator agrees to some specifications as part of winning the bid for the license. And usually those specifications include obligation to be neutral when transmitting data.<p>Try to find that spec, find the right section, and complain formally to the authority of regulation.
Publicly freely available doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s legal for you to embed them in your website without some licensing agreement. (I’m assuming your site isn’t just a list of external links.) Just as a heads up.
Are you sure the ISP blocked this on their own because you are competing, or did a rightsholder file a lawsuit and require the ISP to block this domain? Rightsholders are not required to send a DMCA takedown notice before filing a lawsuit
Can you ask someone who is their customer to do a naive call to their tech support, and complain that they are getting an error when trying to access the website?
Is the ISP blocking the domain, or is its DNS server returning nxdomain for it? I've seen ISPs provide modems which use the ISP's DNS as a default (via DHCP) unless configured otherwise. Try running `dig mydomain.com @1.1.1.1` to check if that returns the right IP.<p>Not sure what you can do if they're just serving whatever they want from their own DNS other than telling users how to specify another one. Maybe dnssec is relevant?