A Censored Network

Method & Findings:
A Censored Network: Iranian Social, Political and Religious Sites
Using Issuecrawler.net, crawl URLs (on 30 March
A hyperlink analysis method for censored Website discovery.
2006) from the OpenNet Initiative's list of Iranian
social, political and religious sites. Find network of
sites through one iteration of co-link analysis
(pictured). Fetch each site through a proxy in Iran
(on 18 May 2006). Discover sites previously
rdki.com
unknown to be blocked. Compare newly discovered
voanews.com
blocked sites with entire list of Iranian Websites
checked by the OpenNet Initiative. The finding is
sh-shafa.com
i-w-o.org
the discovery of 30 blocked sites in Iran.
medusa2000.com
rowzane.com
tehrantimes.com
iranazad.com
zagros.info
marzeporgohar.org
womeniniran.com
Newly discovered blocked sites:
http://home.bip.net/radiohambastegi/
http://ir.mondediplo.com/
http://www.alahwaz.com/
http://www.ashoob.com/
http://www.asre-nou.net/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/persian/
http://www.channelonetv.com/
http://www.didgah.com/
http://www.didgah.net/
http://www.fadaee.org/
http://www.fedayi.org/
http://www.fwhi.org/
http://www.geocities.com/~fedaian/
http://www.gozareshgar.com/
http://www.iran-jommelli.com/
http://www.iranazad.com/
http://www.irandokht.com/
http://www.komalah.org/
http://www.kvinnonet.org/
http://www.mani-poesie.de/
http://www.medusa2000.com/
http://www.mihan.net/
http://www.negah1.com/
http://www.peykeiran.com/
http://www.radio-international.org/
http://www.radiobarabari.net/
http://www.rdki.com/
http://www.roozonline.com/
http://www.shahrvand.com/
http://www.zagros.info/
Legend
Blocked sites
siasate-kargari.com
avairan.com
kasravi.info
radio-international.org
didgah.com
ihrwg.org
sarbedaran.org
jebhe.org
iran.mojahedin.org
un.org
nashrieh-nameh.com
radiokomaleh.com
peykeiran.com
fadaian.org
irandokht.com
sharareha.com
jebhemelli.net
bbc.co.uk/persian
azadi-iran.org
etehadchap.com
wpiran.org
shamlou.org
jebhemelli.org
iran-emrooz.de
radiofarda.com
golshan.com
alahwaz.com
peiknet.com
komalah.org
home.bip.net/radiohambastegi
payvand.com/news panahjoo.com
roshangari.com
jonge-khabar.com
mani-poesie.de
etehadefedaian.org
cpiran.org
radis.org
iran-e-sabz.org
fedayi.org
rahekargar.net
fadaee.org
hamshahri.net
komala.org
ranjbaran.org
kanoon-zendanian.org
gooya.com
amnesty.org
radiobarabari.net
shahrvand.com
baztab.com
forughfarrokhzad.org
isnagency.com
fadai.org
siahkal.com
negah1.com
asre-nou.net
ashoob.com
tudehpartyiran.org
ettelaat.com
mihan.net
iran-newspaper.com
news.gooya.com
avayeashena.com
fwhi.org
pdk-iran.org
nehzateazadi.org
rfi.fr/fichiers/Langues/rfi_persan_main.asp
golshirifoundation.org
gozareshgar.com
irna.com
wsu-iran.org
ilna.ir
channelonetv.com
iran-chabar.de
iran-jommelli.com
shamlu.com
kvinnonet.org
A co-production between the Govcom.org Foundation, Amsterdam, and the
marxists.org
avayezan.com
toufan.org
OpenNet Initiative, a partnership between the Citizen Lab at the Munk
geocities.com/~fedaian
Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto, the Berkman Center
sharghnewspaper.com
hadisara.com
ir.mondediplo.com
hayateno.org
zan.org
kargar.org
for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, the Advanced Network
Research Group at the Cambridge Security Programme at Cambridge
iransocialforum.org
didgah.net
rooydad.com
University, and the Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University.
Internet Censorship Visualizations________________________2006
A Censored Network: Iranian Social, Political and Religious Sites
roozonline.com
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Newly discovered blocked sites
Accessible sites
Inaccessible site (owing to DNS issue)
Size of node indicates inlink count from network.
alefbe.com
Data_by OpenNet Initiative and map by Issuecrawler.net.
Analysis_by Richard Rogers, Nart Villeneuve and Erik
Borra, and design_by Marieke van Dijk.
© 2006 Govcom.org and ONI
IRAN