I’ll ask the ISP for the exact reason for blocking although I am certain it’s due to them profiting from selling IpTV services themselves.

Nope not using ISP for hosting, the server is in Germany.

And they block that domain again. Domain has been up for over 5 years so it’s something my users know.

Unfortunately I am here only with a phone. Although I have tried it on multiple friends phones whom live here on mobile and broadband wifi connection, same result. Also installed a trace route app and it just defaults to 0.0.0.0

My domain and same sever IP have been up for over 5 years

Thank you for this. I will definitely contact them. Just common sense says an ISP should not be banning competitor domains.

Actually I will reach out to the ISP 1st to absolutely confirm the reason for the blockage. If I get no response then I’ll contact the above authority.

Man, I really hope this works out for you and the answer you get from the regulatory authority isn't just "sucks to be you."

Houses are build here 1st, then planning permission is requested. Things do not really abide by law very much. It’s slowly getting better, but lots of work to be done.

They blocked the whole domain

You can’t move your domain to another registrar?

The ISP is probably blackholing the DNS on their end, and customers who use their DNS by default (everyone) get an nxdomain.

The ISP just points the domain.com to nothing. So changing registrar makes no difference here unfortunately.

Funnily, external countries are my main audience and provide the best source of income due to Ads being more valuable. However, I just feel let down by my own country for allowing a cheap DNS block trick like this.

I re-transcode them via my server for better quality and speed. Most of the TV channels themselves have reached out to me and asked me to re-stream their channel because it costs a lot. I have always complied with all takedown DCMA requests rapidly, not many, when they do come through.

takedown DCMA requests are US law. Very different rules might apply, much more restrictive/punitive in a lot of countries. Also, you mentioning that it is about different countries is also an odd thing: TV services usually have distribution rights for third-party material only for some countries. And last but not least, "TV channels" in a lot of countries will make broadcasting laws apply. You will need to cover for a lot of legal questions. Maybe you do already, but frankly it does not really sound like it from your answer...

Well it gets weird. Some of the TV channels here are registered here, but they hire lawyers from states to deal with “competitors” outside the country. So i get the odd DCMA request from a US lawyer for a company registered in Albania/Kosovo. I’m not even sure how that works, but I have complied with them.

do the channels you have permission from have rights to stream to the territories in question?

I am not 100% sure on this. It’s gotten really muddled up because these new ISP companies have spun up and started to create “package IPTV” deals. Although they also illegally provide other countries TV services (Sky Sports, BT Sports, etc) through their package. Instead of sending me a takedown request, they seem to have resulted to just banning competitors. It just does not seem right for an ISP company to have this kill-switch privilege.

I’ll explore this option. I also know that Vodafone is a big network carrier here, so I’ll check if they rent out their service to these ISP companies. If they do, then it’ll be easier for me to communicate with Vodafone.