This is called DNS blocking. Since around 2024, courts in France, Italy, and Belgium have ordered Google, Cloudflare, and OpenDNS to change their responses to certain DNS queries for pirate sites ...

UPDATE: Jun. 12, 2025, 5:06 p.m. EDT According to the Cloudflare status page, the service issues have been fully resolved. "All Cloudflare services have been restored and are now fully operational ...

Cloudflare has confirmed that the massive service outage yesterday was not caused by a security incident and no data has been lost. The issue has been largely mitigated.