nyaa.si
Mostly blocked
10 of the 12 URLs we have a verdict for under nyaa.si are blocked in mainland China; 2 are not. The Great Firewall silently drops its packets so requests time out, poisons its DNS and breaks its TLS handshake. 245 tests have been run under this domain since 2017-06-12, the most recent on 2026-06-25.
The two are filtered by different means — an unencrypted request by the address and keywords it carries in the clear, an encrypted one by the server name in its TLS handshake — so one working while the other does not is normal.
The site itself
http://nyaa.sias of 2026Intermittenthttps://nyaa.sias of 2026Blockedhttp://www.nyaa.siBlockedPages and subdomains (9)
https://nyaa.si/view/1148680as of 2026Blockedhttps://nyaa.si/user/TianAnMenShiJianBlockedhttps://nyaa.si?f=0&c=0_0&q=EMTP-Raws%26%E9%A9%AF%E5%85%BD%E5%B8%88%E8%81%94%E7%9B%9Fas of 2026Blockedhttp://sukebei.nyaa.sias of 2026Intermittenthttps://sukebei.nyaa.sias of 2026Blockedhttps://sukebei.nyaa.si/view/3063397as of 2026Blockedhttps://sukebei.nyaa.si/view/3804656as of 2026Blockedhttps://sukebei.nyaa.si?f=0&c=2_2&q=YRH-328as of 2026Blockedhttps://sukebei.nyaa.si?c=1_4&s=downloads&o=descBlockedAbout nyaa.si and the Great Firewall
10 of the 12 URLs we have a verdict for under nyaa.si are blocked in mainland China; 2 are not. The Great Firewall silently drops its packets so requests time out, poisons its DNS and breaks its TLS handshake. 245 tests have been run under this domain since 2017-06-12, the most recent on 2026-06-25.
Plain HTTP and HTTPS differ here: http://nyaa.si is intermittent, https://nyaa.si is blocked. The two are filtered by different means — an unencrypted request by the address and keywords it carries in the clear, an encrypted one by the server name in its TLS handshake — so one working while the other does not is normal.
A VPN or another circumvention tool routes the request outside mainland China, past the filtering that blocks nyaa.si. 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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