joins.com
Mixed
Results vary across joins.com: of 14 URLs tested, 2 are blocked, 2 are disrupted some of the time, 9 load normally and 1 has no conclusive recent result. The Great Firewall poisons its DNS and silently drops its packets so requests time out. 316 tests have been run under this domain since 2012-05-27, the most recent on 2026-06-25.
The site itself
http://joins.comas of 2026Not blockedhttps://joins.comNot enough datahttp://www.joins.comas of 2026Not blockedPages and subdomains (11)
http://cn.joins.comas of 2026Not blockedhttp://jtbc.joins.comas of 2026Blockedhttps://jtbc.joins.comas of 2026Blockedhttp://chinese.joins.comas of 2025Not blockedhttps://chinese.joins.comas of 2026Not blockedhttps://joongang.joins.comas of 2026Not blockedhttp://news.jtbc.joins.comas of 2026Intermittenthttp://chinese.joins.com/gbas of 2026Not blockedhttp://magazine.joins.com/newsweekNot blockedhttp://koreajoongangdaily.joins.comIntermittenthttps://chinese.joins.com/gb/default.aspxas of 2026Not blockedAbout joins.com and the Great Firewall
Results vary across joins.com: of 14 URLs tested, 2 are blocked, 2 are disrupted some of the time, 9 load normally and 1 has no conclusive recent result. The Great Firewall poisons its DNS and silently drops its packets so requests time out. 316 tests have been run under this domain since 2012-05-27, the most recent on 2026-06-25.
A VPN or another circumvention tool routes the request outside mainland China, past the filtering that blocks joins.com. 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.
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