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Hello! We're glad to introduce a new feature in AirVPN infrastructure: DNS block lists. By default, AirVPN DNS remains neutral in accordance with our mission. However, from now on you have the option to enforce block lists which poison our DNS, in order, for example, to block known sources of ads, spam, malware and so on. You can manage your preferences in your account Client Area ⇨ DNS panel https://airvpn.org/dns/. We offer only lists released with licenses which grant re-distribution for business purposes too. The system is very flexible and offers some exclusive features never seen before in other VPN services: You can activate or de-activate, anytime, any combination of lists. You can add customized exceptions and/or additional blocks. Any specified domain which must be blocked includes all of its subdomains too. Lists which can return custom A,AAAA,CNAME,TXT records are supported. You can define any combination of block lists and/or exceptions and/or additions for your whole account or only for specific certificate/key pairs of your account (Client Area ⇨ Devices ⇨ Details ⇨ DNS) Different matching methods are available for your additions and exceptions: Exact (exact FQDN), Domain (domain and its subdomains), Wildcard (with * and ? as wildcards), Contain, Start with, End with. An API to fetch every and each list in different formats (see Client Area ⇨ API ⇨ dns_lists service) is active Any change in your selected list(s), any added exception and any added block is enforced very quickly, within few tens of seconds. You don't need to disconnect and re-connect your account. You can define your own lists and discuss lists and anything related in the community forum here Essential requisite to enjoy the service is, of course, querying AirVPN DNS while your system is connected to some VPN server, which is by the way a default setup if you run any of our software. Kind regards & datalove AirVPN Staff

A port number is way too variable to base judgement on. Any user can change it just like that and that voids any collected evidence about it. Besides, there are only 65000 ports, but many, many more clients, some of which will share a given port. This is a dangerous ambiguity for investigations. Also, if you somehow find out it's AirVPN's IP address, and the fact people can forward ports here linked to their accounts, when one does ask "who forwarded port X", you get an account name. If you follow up with "give me all info on that aqcount", we get into muddy waters where mail addresses are involved which can or cannot be valid around here. Not taking into account whether such a question may actually be asked, suppose you get that info, next would be the mail provider. At this point at the latest you might be crossing country borders, turning investigations into money and time sinks. All that because you downloaded a movie? I don't think it's feasible at all.

@Strongduck In 13 years we have never received a single court order pertaining to copyright infringements, but you're right you never know (fingers crossed!). We accept Bitcoin for example since so many years ago... Even the data ("complaints") that we sometimes receive about alleged infringements on "p2p networks" are quite weak and technically questionable, and it's hard they hold in a court... not to mention that a magistrate in several cases would not even serve a decree to freeze and disclose personal data on the basis of file sharing upon a private request based on the scarce/weak information we see on the complaints. Kind regards