archiveofourown.org
Mostly blocked
40 of the 41 URLs we have a verdict for under archiveofourown.org are blocked in mainland China; 1 are not. The site itself, https://archiveofourown.org, is blocked. The Great Firewall poisons its DNS, silently drops its packets so requests time out and blocks the connection outright. 1,238 tests have been run under this domain since 2011-12-28, the most recent on 2026-08-15.
The site itself
http://archiveofourown.orgas of 2026Blockedhttps://archiveofourown.orgas of 2026Blockedhttp://www.archiveofourown.orgas of 2026Blockedhttps://www.archiveofourown.orgBlockedhttps://www.archiveofourown.org:80BlockedPages and subdomains (36)
http://archiveofourown.org/tos_faqas of 2026Blockedhttps://archiveofourown.org/users/guonaBlockedhttp://archiveofourown.org/works/6766291Blockedhttps://archiveofourown.org/users/zoeyehBlockedhttps://archiveofourown.org/works/18275954as of 2026Blockedhttps://archiveofourown.org/works/22687267as of 2026Blockedhttps://archiveofourown.org/works/22953439Blockedhttps://archiveofourown.org/invite_requestsBlockedhttp://archiveofourown.org/tags/PKD+-+FandomBlockedhttps://archiveofourown.org/tags/Supernatural/worksas of 2026Blockedhttps://archiveofourown.org/users/writteninblood/statsBlockedhttps://archiveofourown.org/users/GothicPixi/bookmarksBlockedhttp://archiveofourown.org/works/2954588?view_adult=trueBlockedhttp://archiveofourown.org/works/3132719/chapters/7096931as of 2026Blockedhttps://archiveofourown.org/works/537876/chapters/4474470as of 2026Blockedhttp://archiveofourown.org/works/5487035/chapters/12677693Blockedhttps://archiveofourown.org/works/12714576/chapters/29425008as of 2026Blockedhttps://archiveofourown.org/works/18867169/chapters/44781037as of 2026Blockedhttps://archiveofourown.org/works/17849519/chapters/42120527as of 2026Blockedhttps://archiveofourown.org/works/22845742/chapters/56761717as of 2026Blockedhttps://archiveofourown.org/works/25371652/chapters/61520566as of 2026Blockedhttps://archiveofourown.org/works/search?work_search[query]=Blockedhttps://archiveofourown.org/works/18462467?view_full_work=trueBlockedhttps://archiveofourown.org/works/65342887?view_full_work=trueBlockedhttps://archiveofourown.org/tags/Bakugou+Katsuki%2As%2AMidoriya+Izuku/worksas of 2026Blockedhttp://archiveofourown.org/tags/%E4%B8%9C%E6%96%B9%E4%BA%91%E6%A2%A6%E8%B0%ADas of 2026Blockedhttp://archiveofourown.org/tags/Evil+Queen+%7C+Regina+Mills%2As%2AEmma+Swan/worksas of 2026Intermittenthttps://archiveofourown.org/works/20841653?show_comments=true&view_full_work=trueas of 2026Blockedhttps://archiveofourown.org/works/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&work_search%5Bquery%5D=dysas of 2026Blockedhttps://archiveofourown.org/works/search?page=2&utf8=%E2%9C%93&work_search%5Bquery%5D=%E4%BB%97%E9%9C%B2as of 2026Blockedhttp://archiveofourown.org/tags/%E3%80%90EC%E3%80%91%E8%B7%9F%E5%90%88%E6%88%90%E4%BA%BA%E8%B0%88%E4%B8%80%E5%9C%BA%E6%81%8B%E7%88%B1%E6%98%AF%E4%BB%80%E4%B9%88%E6%84%9F%E8%A7%89Blockedhttps://archiveofourown.org/tags/%E9%AD%94%E9%81%93%E7%A5%96%E5%B8%88+-+%E5%A2%A8%E9%A6%99%E9%93%9C%E8%87%AD+%7C+M%C3%B3d%C3%A0o+Z%C7%94sh%C4%AB+-+M%C3%B2xi%C4%81ng+T%C3%B3ngxi%C3%B9/worksBlockedhttp://archiveofourown.org/works?utf8=%E2%9C%93&commit=Sort+and+Filter&work_search%5Bsort_column%5D=revised_at&work_search%5Brelationship_ids%5D%5B0%5D=10230&work_search%5Bother_tag_names%5D=&work_search%5Bquery%5D=&work_search%5Blanguage_id%5D=&work_searBlockedhttps://archiveofourown.org/works?utf8=%E2%9C%93&commit=Sort+and+Filter&work_search%5Bsort_column%5D=kudos_count&work_search%5Bother_tag_names%5D=&work_search%5Bexcluded_tag_names%5D=&work_search%5Bcrossover%5D=&work_search%5Bcomplete%5D=&work_search%5Bwoas of 2025Blockedhttps://archiveofourown.org/tags/Genesis+Rhapsodos/works?commit=Sort+and+Filter&page=20&utf8=%E2%9C%93&work_search%5Bcomplete%5D=&work_search%5Bcrossover%5D=&work_search%5Bdate_from%5D=&work_search%5Bdate_to%5D=&work_search%5Bexcluded_tag_names%5D=&work_sBlockedhttps://ao3-mailin01.archiveofourown.orgas of 2026BlockedAbout archiveofourown.org and the Great Firewall
40 of the 41 URLs we have a verdict for under archiveofourown.org are blocked in mainland China; 1 are not. The site itself, https://archiveofourown.org, is blocked. The Great Firewall poisons its DNS, silently drops its packets so requests time out and blocks the connection outright. 1,238 tests have been run under this domain since 2011-12-28, the most recent on 2026-08-15.
A VPN or another circumvention tool routes the request outside mainland China, past the filtering that blocks archiveofourown.org. GreatFire runs GreatFire VPN; the Analyzer also tests the domains of many VPN and proxy providers, so you can check whether one is reachable before relying on it.
Elsewhere on the site
archiveofourown.org is ranked #1,080 among the world's most-visited domains (Tranco).
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