Check your website to see if it is included in the Unified Register of Prohibited Websites in Russia

Got a new option - checking for inclusion in the Unified Register of Prohibited Sites.

What is the Unified Register of Prohibited Sites

The register was created in October 2012 by decree of the Government of the Russian Federation. It includes all sites blocked for viewing for publishing information prohibited in Russia. Such information today includes:
Video, photo, audio materials, as well as texts characterized as pornography with the participation of minors.
Information about methods of production or places of sale of narcotic substances.
Calls to commit suicide, materials describing methods of committing suicide.
Calls for mass unrest, extremist activity, incitement of ethnic and religious hatred.
Blocking of sites is carried out by Roskomnadzor. Restriction of access to Internet resources occurs based on complaints from their visitors. First, experts check the content of the sites on which complaints have been received. If the received signals are confirmed, notifications are sent to the hosting providers on whose servers the sites are located requiring them to remove prohibited materials. If this does not happen within three days, the resource is added to the “black list”. Telecom operators are required to block access to the site from Russian IP addresses.

Checking for inclusion in the register of prohibited sites using the Host-tracker service

After a citizen submits a complaint to Roskomnadzor, any site can be blocked within 6 days after its receipt. Moreover, not only resources that deliberately publish materials on the verge of a foul are exposed to the threat of blocking. A site may be included in the register of prohibited sites by mistake. Once the VKontakte network got into this register. The photographs posted by some users were classified as child pornography. Simultaneously with this complaint, others were also being considered on more than 100 different sites. When blocking the sites, the operator mistakenly checked the box on the VKontakte website. As a result, the network's multimillion-dollar audience was unable to access this resource for some time.
If suddenly you have reason to believe that your site may be included in the list of prohibited sites, you can check this using the Host-tracker service.
In the upper right corner of the main page of the service, select RegBL, or at the bottom of it, find the “Features” column and follow the “Quick check” link. Enter the address of your website in the special field and click on “Check”.

If your resource is prohibited for viewing in Russia, the service will give you the following result.

For now, this function only works in instant check mode. We are considering the possibility of adding to the functionality of the service a regular check to see if a site is included in the register of prohibited sites. Your opinion on the feasibility of creating this function and the demand for the service is very important to us. You can send all your wishes to us, we will be glad to hear.