Gog.com's content server gog-statics.com is blocked using 1.1.1.3

What is the name of the domain?

gog-statics.com

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What is the issue you’re encountering

This domain is being blocked when I use the 1.1.1.3 DNS resolver, and this breaks GOG’s site (a game marketplace) which uses this domain for storing static content. Using 1.1.1.1 works fine for resolving this domain, however.

What are the steps to reproduce the issue?

Browse to GOG’s site when using 1.1.1.1 and compare to 1.1.1.3. Large parts of the page fail to load when doing the latter, since the site references a script and possibly other static files from the domain in question. The attached screenshot shows what the site looks like when using 1.1.1.3.

Screenshot of the error

I should add that both gog.com and gog-statics.com seem to be flagged appropriately in Cloudflare Radar.

https://radar.cloudflare.com/domains/domain/gog.com
https://radar.cloudflare.com/domains/domain/gog-statics.com

Looks like you need to check out some of the subdomains. Some are ok, some are not. Those that are not ok on 1.1.1.3 do have CIPA tags showing in Radar so you can report those as miscategorized if they are…

https://radar.cloudflare.com/domains/domain/store-static-modular.gog-statics.com

dig +short images.gog-statics.com @1.1.1.3
cs526.wpc.deltacdn.net.
192.229.220.97

dig +short store-static-modular.gog-statics.com @1.1.1.3
0.0.0.0

Hmm, I hadn’t thought about how GOG has opened up its marketplace to more adult-oriented games in the past couple of years, so that CIPA flag is probably appropriate after all. The same games are on Steam (the industry heavyweight marketplace for PC games), and I at first wondered why Steam isn’t getting flagged as such too. But looking into it further, I see that Steam requires you to log in with an adult account to view such content, versus GOG, where you can plainly see such games just by browsing the site.

So, I suppose the way GOG’s domains are flagged are appropriate after all. GOG’s content server is flagged for CIPA, so adult images are blocked, but the main infrastructure at gog.com is ok. In a way, I can “have my cake and eat it too”: I can play and download my games from GOG fine, but the adult games are blocked via their subdomain’s Cloudflare classification, which sounds appropriate if I’m using 1.1.1.3.

Thanks for the response @sjr!

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