dot net DNS blocks

[cohle]

Funny you bring this up. I've been talking to the ProtonVPN support (i.e. a bunch of jeets probably) for three months now. Here's the correspondence:

Spoiler: words words words

Jul 5, 2025

The Proton VPN DNS filters block access to kiwifarms.net, which apparently has falsely been reported as being unsafe.
The site is safe to use, and the alternative domain kiwifarms.st works just fine.

It would be appreciated if you could remove it from the DNS filter as it is a false-positive.

(emphasis by me)

Jul 7, 2025
Hello,

Thank you for contacting us.

After investigating further, it looks like this specific domain is flagged by some security vendors as malicious and therefore blocked by the NetShield feature. You can find the full report at the link below:

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/f48d07ffab1062344fa2179e71179cce76efcfddae9e5f904e62be6081b19727

That said, if you are willing to access this website, feel free to disable the NetShield feature.

If there is anything else I can help you with please do not hesitate to let me know.

Have a nice day!

Kind regards,
Rajeesh Samir
Customer Support

Jul 8, 2025

Thank you for your reply. The provided link shows that only one out of 97 providers flag the site as unsafe. That's clearly a false positive.
I'd kindly ask you to look into this again and consider unblocking the domain unless it's standard practice for you to block all websites that get flagged by even just one security vendor.
If that is the case then you should also block the domain kiwifarms.st because it's the exact same website, just on a different domain.

Jul 9, 2025
Hello,

Thank you for your message.

Upon checking yesterday, there were two security vendors that have flagged this website as malicious. It appears that one of the vendors have changed their flag.

I have now opened an internal ticket so that the team can further check this. Unfortunately, I cannot speculate when this might be resolved, however, once I have an update I will follow up with you to inform you.

We appreciate your patience in this matter.

Kind regards,
Rajeesh Samir
Customer Support

Jul 23, 2025

Thanks for the reply. Is there any update on this? It's been two weeks and I can see that kiwifarms.net is still inaccessible while kiwifarms.st works fine.

Jul 24, 2025
Hello,

Thank you for the follow-up.

From what I could see on my end, the infrastructure team has not implemented a fix for this yet. I let them know you reached back, hopefully they will resolve this soon.

I am sorry for the inconvenience this is causing you at the moment. I will email you as soon as I hear from them.

If you need any additional assistance in the meantime, please don't hesitate to reach out again.

Kind regards,

Rajeesh Samir
Customer Support
Proton VPN

Aug 8, 2025

Hello,

it's been another two weeks and there's seemingly been no progress on this. Is it normal for a simple DNS filtering issue to take this long to resolve?
Almost five weeks seems a bit steep for such a trivial problem.

Aug 11, 2025
Hello,

Thank you for reaching out.

As I can see in our end, it seems the issue was properly escalated and the infrastructure team is already aware of this.

Some issues like this may take more than others for different websites. I see no specific feedback on my end for this, unfortunately. I am waiting for the team to respond when this is resolved, so I can email you.

Please keep in mind that issues like this may also involve multiple teams to get resolved, depending on what is causing this and who is responsible for what.

I will contact you when I receive an update on this from our team.

I appreciate your patience and understanding regarding this matter.

If you need any additional assistance in the meantime, please don't hesitate to reach out again.

Have a nice day!

Kind regards,

Pajeet
Customer Support
Proton VPN

Sep 9, 2025

Hello,

is there any update on this? It's been two months since my initial report and three weeks since my last inquiry.
I find it a bit hard to believe that a trivial problem like a false positive takes this long to resolve.

To re-iterate:

- https://kiwifarms.st - works
- https://kiwifarms.net - does not work and is blocked by NetShield

these are both the exact same website, in fact https://kiwifarms.net doesn't even host any content, it's just a redirect to https://kiwifarms.st. Either the latter is a false positive or the former needs to be blocked as well.

Sep 10, 2025,

Hello,

Thank you for your message and for your patience regarding this issue.

I'm sorry we don't have any updates to share just yet. Our infra team is still looking into it.

As soon as there's any progress on your report, we'll make sure to reach out to you directly via email.

We truly appreciate your understanding and patience while this is being reviewed.

Kind regards,

Poojet Rindaj
Customer Support
Proton VPN

Oct 9, 2025
It's almost been another month and this issue still has not been resolved.

I do not believe that such a simple issue takes a quarter of a year to address. Which leads me to believe that this is either the result of gross incompetence or the issue intentionally being blocked by someone.

As a result I've decided that I won't renew my subscription and instead move to a different VPN provider.

Oct 8, 2025
Hello,

Thank you for the follow-up.

I am sorry to hear that you decided to leave us. I can see that the report was already properly escalated to the infrastructure team, and it remains for them to investigate this further to resolve it.

Since I see no announcements on when this may be resolved, I let the team know you reached out again. Hopefully, this will help them resolve it sooner.

I appreciate your patience and understanding regarding this matter.

If you ever decide to try using Proton VPN again and need any additional assistance, please don't hesitate to reach out again.

Kind regards,

Samir Pajeet
Customer Support
Proton VPN

(I changed the names of the support agents)

tl;dr: Their explanation for blocking kiwifarms.net was that 1 (formerly 2) out of 97(!) security vendors on virus total (A) flagged kiwifarms.net as unsafe, which is clearly bullshit. I was patient with them for three months but my subscription is running out and I'll just move to another VPN. In my opinion there's a troon somewhere on their team that is blocking this issue from being resolved.

 

[Baraka Obama]

kiwifarms.net works with PrivateInternetAccess VPN and iCloud Private relay.

 

[McKennai]

Works fine with Quad9 dns and other local ISP dns, my local pihole lists arent affected by this .

Spoiler: Which list do people usally use? Put mine hastily together couple years ago

 

[Thiletonomics]

kiwifarms.net is working on AirVPN with the Malware list enabled:

 

[Juke and Jam]

The redirecting works for me as well, on Firefox and with Protons NetShield enabled. Is it possible that their problem employee has finally moved on to more deranged pastures? One can only hope.

 

[Van Darkholme]

kiwifarms.net works with PrivateInternetAccess VPN

Can confirm.

 

[Idiotus Maximus]

All good on my end.

 

[Lokenstien]

Works just fine on my tamagotchi.

 

[False and Misleading]

OperaVPN and Adguard's DNS redirect fine.

Can confirm AdGuard

edit: Ignore my username

 

[Drive-By Comment]

My service, which uses F-Secure VPN works.

 

[Margo Martindale]

I hate how 'Open Source' is starting to become synonymous with 'fat retard tranny'

 

[Pod 042]

Using the Opera browsers built in VPN. Can confirm that the .net domain redirected to .st without issues.

 

[Timaeus Testified]

At Null's behest, I am now chimping out at ProtonVPN. For some reason though, I get the redirect while on mobile, but not on PC, not sure why Proton allows mobile connections?

 

[Ranine Avatar]

Works with both my shitty ISP and my shitty VPN, boss. Even works with my shitty mobile service.

 

[Hermann von Salsa]

It looks like they have removed the can't access a website option, I wonder if it's because of the complain volume? Regardless I'll still send a report.

 

[Google.com]

Proton has really gone down the shitter in the past 2 years. They went from openly allowing multiple free accounts to trying to actively prevent them, then they did the whole bullshit "lumo" open source LLM which isn't open source. I have been a long time support of proton and have gone actively out of my way to sollicite business for them in the past.

Really fucking annoyed.

 

[Ghostface Killah]

Posting from AirVPN with port forwarding no problems.

e redirects from net to st

 

[lolcow yoghurt]

https://kiwifarms.net/ redirects to the .st, is my ISP kiwi-friendly?

 

[9 IRON TO THE BALLS]

for some reason an antivirus recommended by piraters called Malwarebytes blocked kiwifarms, which is more surprising than vpns.

 

[Vic Viper T301]

Reported issue on my ProtonVPN. I'm sure they won't fix the issue so I will find another company when my subscription expires. I'm already annoyed that I have to disconnect it for some games to function online.