I don't know if you're aware but Skype is blocked by Omantel as well. I was back in Oman about 2 months ago and tried to log in but for some reason nothing happened. When I tried going to Skype's official website, it also was blocked. I sent an email to the address you mentioned above and although my email did go through, I received no reply.
I suspect Omantel realised how much money their losing if their customers use Skype to make practically free international calls and decided to wipe out the competition.
It just doesn't seem right that they have such powers. Shouldn't the TRA be responsible for ''censorship'', and I use the word censorship loosely because like you said, porn can be found by a 5 year old!
Kibtar
· 2 months ago
"Currently, the only way to have your website unblocked if it gets blocked by Omantel is to follow the procedure I followed"
for me I have got some sites unblocked in a matter of minutes, you just need to get to the right department , and by the way they work 24 hours.
in my opinion, they might have blocked your website because it is sharing its IP with other websites which are blacklisted.
this will happen in shared hosting plans.
when you sent email to admin[a t ] omantel dot com, was your email a myitlawyer.com email? If yes then your website is for sure listed in spam blacklists.
kind regards
Blue_Chi
· 2 months ago
Hi Kibtar, thanks for passing by.
I am not on a shared hosting package. I run a number of websites from a single server and yet only one domain name got blocked. I also used Gmail to send my email message.
There is unfortunately no "official" line to use to reach the "right department". If you scream and shout you might eventually reach the person in charge, but from personal experience that is very rare to happen and you must have a lot of patience for it. The person in charge is very unlikely to be available outside official working hours.
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I suspect Omantel realised how much money their losing if their customers use Skype to make practically free international calls and decided to wipe out the competition.
It just doesn't seem right that they have such powers. Shouldn't the TRA be responsible for ''censorship'', and I use the word censorship loosely because like you said, porn can be found by a 5 year old!
for me I have got some sites unblocked in a matter of minutes, you just need to get to the right department , and by the way they work 24 hours.
in my opinion, they might have blocked your website because it is sharing its IP with other websites which are blacklisted.
this will happen in shared hosting plans.
when you sent email to admin[a t ] omantel dot com, was your email a myitlawyer.com email?
If yes then your website is for sure listed in spam blacklists.
kind regards
I am not on a shared hosting package. I run a number of websites from a single server and yet only one domain name got blocked. I also used Gmail to send my email message.
There is unfortunately no "official" line to use to reach the "right department". If you scream and shout you might eventually reach the person in charge, but from personal experience that is very rare to happen and you must have a lot of patience for it. The person in charge is very unlikely to be available outside official working hours.