# IGN (آي جي إن)

> IGN is currently blocked in Syria, as of 2026-08-10.

- Status: blocked
- Outreach: Contacted
- Company: [Ziff Davis](https://unblocksyria.com/en/companies/ziff-davis.md)
- Categories: News & Media, Forums & Communities, Podcasts
- Official site: https://www.ign.com/
- Community votes: 19
- Last updated: 2026-08-10
- Page: https://unblocksyria.com/en/services/ign

## About

Entertainment and video game media website featuring news, reviews, and guides for games, movies, TV, and tech. Reaches 229M+ monthly users in 112 countries.

## Activity summary

Blocked in Syria. A community screenshot in February 2026 showed the site fully inaccessible from inside the country, and further testing in April 2026 returned a custom "Error 403 - Unavailable" page rejecting the request as suspicious. The team asked the parent company to review the Syria IP restrictions in April 2026 and received no reply. In August 2026 a community volunteer sent a wider petition covering the company's whole publishing portfolio, including IGN.

## Official timeline

- 2026-04-11 — Contacted Company. Official outreach email sent to Ziff Davis at dpo@ziffdavis.com requesting review of Syria IP restrictions for IGN under the current OFAC and BIS framework.

## Community reports

- 2026-08-06 — Follow-up Sent. A community volunteer sent a detailed compliance petition to Ziff Davis at legal@ziffdavis.com, dpo@ziffdavis.com and privacy@ziffdavis.com, copying Gamer Network at contact@eurogamer.net, asking the company to remove country-level geofencing across its publishing portfolio including IGN. The email documented that requests from Syrian IP addresses are dropped at the content delivery network or web application firewall layer with an HTTP 403 Forbidden response, set out the 2025 US, EU, UK and multilateral sanctions changes alongside Ziff Davis's own privacy and corporate audit commitments, and requested written confirmation that the petition had been escalated for review.
- 2026-04-11 — Investigated. Community testing confirmed that IGN is blocked in Syria. Accessing ign.com from a Syrian IP returns a custom error page reading "Error 403 - Unavailable (IFW-L01)" with the message "Sorry but something about this request looked a bit suspicious, and we block suspicious stuff." The site is completely inaccessible. (evidence: https://api.unblocksyria.com/files/evidence/rpqimfkpmoqdofw42nr5lc2l/dy6hcyd82u64jsrlhy8ukuhn-screenshot-2026-04-11-221833.png)
- 2026-02-07 — Evidence Added. Screenshot submitted by a user in Syria showing that ign.com is completely inaccessible from within the country. (evidence: https://api.unblocksyria.com/files/evidence/yqv3ddpmx65clqbdw0iatzkv/chht1xyrirmoa3ofcej64y2q-screenshot-2026-02-07-211830.png)

## Context

These are geo-restrictions the companies applied themselves, not filtering by Syrian ISPs and not a legal requirement. US and EU sanctions on Syria were lifted in 2025. See https://unblocksyria.com/llms.txt for the regulatory summary and https://unblocksyria.com/en/about for citations to the specific orders and regulations.

## Machine-readable

- JSON: https://api.unblocksyria.com/services/ign?locale=en
- Timeline JSON: https://api.unblocksyria.com/services/ign/timeline?locale=en
- HTML: https://unblocksyria.com/en/services/ign
- Other languages: https://unblocksyria.com/ar/services/ign.md, https://unblocksyria.com/ku/services/ign.md