Some countries have such a high number of hackers or are known to be hostile to the United States or are embargoed (China, North Korea, Iran, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria, Ukraine etc.) that various security protocols require that they be blocked in order to maintain our ecommerce security standings. The majority of the countries blocked 100% of the time are required and/or highly recommended by different security organizations.
This sample country codes list may include but, are not limited to ones with the following country codes. Some are permanently blocked whereas others may be temporary. The length of time a temporary block lasts varies from as little as 20 minutes to as long as many months depending on the reason.
- RO,CN,HK,TW,RU,VN,IR,LB,RS,LT,HU,TR,TH,ID,TY,BG,SG,BR,KZ,PE,PL,AZ,ET,EC,KG,MO,BY,KE,SY,PK,MY,SA,GE,IQ,EG,JO,VE,DZ,AR,AE
To see which countries are blocked, look up the country's 2-letter code here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2 and see if it is in the above list.
If someone in a blocked country needs to view your website, ask them to try an anonymizer site such as www.AnonyMouse.org as a stop-gap measure. Please contact us if someone in a blocked country needs access to your website other than merely viewing it.
