GoKawiilHN user says UCEPROTECT blacklists entire hosting ASNs, charges fee to delist
A Hacker News poster reports discovering their website was blocked by Orange's security filters because their IP, hosted on DigitalOcean's ASN 14061, was listed on UCEPROTECT's Level 3 blacklist. The poster says the listing applies to the entire ASN rather than any specific wrongdoing, and that UCEPROTECT's whitelisting service charges about $30/month or $108/year to remove innocent IPs from the list. They add that checking other major hosting providers' ASNs showed similar blacklisting.
GoKawiil's interpretation of the reporting above, not reported fact.
If accurate, this suggests that websites hosted on large cloud providers like DigitalOcean could be blocked from users on networks like Orange's that rely on UCEPROTECT's blacklist, regardless of the site's actual behavior. The poster frames this as a business model where a blacklist operator profits from charging unaffected parties to remove listings tied to broad network ranges, though UCEPROTECT's own justification for the practice is not addressed in the report.
- UCEPROTECT Level 3 blacklist can flag entire ASNs, not just individual offending IPs.
- Mobile carrier Orange reportedly uses UCEPROTECT data for its security filtering, blocking affected sites.
- UCEPROTECT offers paid whitelisting (~$30/month or $108/year) to remove IPs from its blacklist.
Source: news.ycombinator.com, 2026-10-05
Published there as: “Tell HN: Uceprotect is extorting website owners”
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