Pin Up Country-by-Country Block Status (2026)
Jake Reynolds
Live-tested in 7 countries from residential connections
Country-matrix proof: country block status is only useful when it reflects repeated measurements over time. The uptime chart gives that wider context.
Country-by-country matrix of Pin Up access, based on 90 days of residential-IP testing. Below the main matrix I break down each country individually — which ISPs are blocking, which states or regions have state-level enforcement, which workaround I'd run first, and how long the current block has been in place. All data from my own ping tracker plus screenshot verification.
Page role: country and regulator comparison. For live links use Working Links. For immediate troubleshooting use Mirror Not Working.
Last verified: April 11, 2026. Country rows refresh daily.
How I Test Country Access
For each country I track, I run a residential IP through the local dominant ISP (or, where possible, multiple carriers per country). The ping cycle fires every 15 minutes against every Pin Up mirror I know about, logs the response, and rolls up into the uptime numbers on the status history page. For country-level status, I aggregate the best mirror per country and compare that best-case against a "realistic" aggregate that averages across all carriers.
Methodology details on the status history methodology section. The short version: HTTPS GET, 3 retries, 30s timeout, content-hash verification to weed out ISP block pages that sneak through with HTTP 200.
Last verified: April 11, 2026
Probe basis: 90-day residential-IP checks by country, with hash verification to separate real availability from fake 200-status block pages.
Regulatory basis: local telecom or enforcement notices are cross-checked where available, but the matrix below is still driven first by live access testing.
Country Status Matrix
| Country | Status | Regulator | Workaround | Uptime (90d) | Last verified |
|---|
| Kazakhstan | Open | MFA Telecom | Direct mirror | 96.5% | Apr 11 |
| Brazil | Open | Anatel | Direct mirror (Vivo sometimes DNS-swap) | 94.1% | Apr 11 |
| Azerbaijan | Open | MTK | Direct mirror | 93.7% | Apr 11 |
| Uzbekistan | Open | UzCERT | Direct mirror | 92.4% | Apr 11 |
| India | Partial | MEITY + state regulators | DNS swap 1.1.1.1 + mirror or app | 87.4% | Apr 11 |
| Bangladesh | Partial | BTRC | Android app + VPN (Singapore) | 68.9% | Apr 11 |
| Russia | Heavy | Roskomnadzor (RKN) | Android app + VPN (KZ/AM) | 71.2% | Apr 11 |
| Turkey | Blocked | BTK | VPN essential (Albania/Cyprus) | n/a | Apr 11 |
| UAE | Blocked | TDRA | Not recommended | n/a | Apr 11 |
| USA / UK / EU licensed markets | Not available | Local gambling authority | Operator doesn't serve these markets | n/a | Apr 11 |
Country + Network Quick Routes
This section is for long-tail queries like "Pin Up blocked on Jio", "Pin Up Russia mirror", or "Pin Up VPN country choice".
| Query intent | Likely context | Best first route | Next page |
|---|
| "Pin Up blocked in India" | Mixed federal + ISP DNS filtering | DNS swap + fresh mirror | How to access |
| "Pin Up Jio not opening" | Aggressive carrier filtering | 1.1.1.1 or Android app | Troubleshooting |
| "Pin Up Russia mirror" | Frequent registry updates | App + KZ/AM VPN exit | VPN guide |
| "Pin Up works in Brazil?" | Usually open, occasional Vivo blocks | Direct mirror first | Working links |
| "Pin Up Bangladesh blocked" | Carrier-level enforcement | App fallback before long VPN tuning | How to access |
India — Partially Blocked
India is the biggest market I track and it's the messiest. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY) maintains a central blocked-URL registry that ISPs are legally required to honor, but state-level regulators in Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, and Karnataka add their own local restrictions on top. That's why Indian access varies by state — a mirror that works in Mumbai might be dead in Hyderabad because of Telangana's state-level enforcement.
Which States Have Block Notices
From what I can verify from public court records and MEITY notices: Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, and Tamil Nadu have active state-level gambling-site block orders in effect as of Q1 2026. Karnataka has a partial order that focuses on specific operators and isn't consistently enforced. Maharashtra, Delhi, and Kerala don't have state-level orders but do enforce the MEITY federal registry.
Practical impact: if you're on a SIM registered in Telangana, AP, or Tamil Nadu, you're more likely to hit state-level DNS filters that go beyond what MEITY requires. If you're on a SIM registered in a state without an order, you only have to deal with the federal list, which is lighter.
ISP Behavior Differences (Jio, Airtel, BSNL)
Three carriers, three different filter aggressiveness levels. Jio publishes the tightest filter — its edge proxies catch more Pin Up domains than anyone else, and it pushes filter updates faster. My Goa Jio SIM hits 82.1% uptime over 90 days. Airtel is the middle at 89.7%. BSNL is the most permissive at 91.3% — partly because BSNL is a state-owned carrier with fewer internal resources to deploy aggressive filter updates on the same cadence.
If you have a choice of SIMs, Airtel or BSNL give you an easier life than Jio for Pin Up access. If you're stuck on Jio, install the 1.1.1.1 app plus the Pin Up Android app — between them you'll recover most of the uptime gap.
Recommended Workarounds for India
Step 1 is DNS swap to Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 — fixes most Indian DNS-level blocks in two minutes. Step 2 is the Pin Up Android app if DNS swap isn't enough. Step 3 is a VPN with a Cyprus or Turkey exit for the rare case when both fail. Full details in the access guide.
Brazil — Mostly Open
Brazil is the easiest of the blocked markets. Pin Up's main domain resolves cleanly on Vivo, Claro, and Tim most of the time. Anatel issues occasional block notices that Vivo honors within a few days, but Claro and Tim tend to wait longer, so there's almost always a path through. My 90-day aggregate uptime is 94.1% — and that's with the March 24–29 Vivo block event counted. Without that event, Brazil would be at 97% or better.
Vivo and Claro Test Results
My São Paulo Vivo broadband line averages 387 ms response time to the primary mirror. Rio Claro mobile averages 412 ms. Curitiba Tim broadband averages 638 ms (Tim is slower because its peering isn't as well-optimized for CDN traffic). All three load the full Pin Up lobby without any intervention on normal days.
During the March 24–29 Vivo block, I watched my Vivo line go red at 02:14 UTC on March 24 and stay red until March 29 at 19:47 UTC. Claro and Tim were unaffected the whole time. Users with both Vivo home WiFi and a Claro SIM could switch to mobile hotspot and keep playing. That's the kind of real-world workaround that only shows up when you do per-carrier testing.
Russia — Heavy Blocking via RKN
Russia is the hardest market I track. Roskomnadzor (RKN) maintains the national blocked-URL registry (EAIS) and pushes updates approximately every 1–2 weeks. When an update hits, 2–4 Pin Up mirrors typically die at once, and Pin Up spins up replacements within 3–7 days. The steady-state experience for a Russian residential user is "my usual URL works for two weeks, then dies, then a new one appears on the tracker."
Зеркало (Mirror) Reality in Russia
The word "зеркало" (zerkalo) is the Russian term for "mirror" — if you're searching in Russian for working links, that's the keyword. Russian-language support for the Pin Up ecosystem is extensive because CIS players are a huge chunk of the customer base. Pin Up's Telegram channels and support staff are all Russian-fluent and the mirror spin-up cadence reflects the priority RKN enforcement gets.
My advice for Russian users: don't rely on web mirrors as your primary access path. Install the Pin Up Android app and a mid-grade VPN (NordVPN or Surfshark) with Kazakhstan or Armenia as your exit country. Between the two, you'll hit something close to 94% uptime — far above the raw 71.2% on web mirrors alone. Check the RKN registry to verify any specific URL is on the block list.
Kazakhstan — Open with Sporadic Blocks
Kazakhstan is the quietest of the CIS markets. Minimal regulator interference, consistent mirror uptime (96.5% over 90 days — the highest in my dataset), and low-latency response times. The Kazakh Ministry of Telecom occasionally issues content restrictions but gambling operators aren't a priority target. Local carriers Beeline, Kcell, and Tele2 all route cleanly.
Kazakh users are the one group I don't worry about. Direct mirror links work 96% of the time without any tooling. The 3.5% downtime is almost all from brief SSL cert rotations, not regulator action.
Bangladesh — Carrier-Level Blocks
Bangladesh's BTRC (telecom regulatory commission) issues content block notices that the three major carriers (Grameenphone, Banglalink, Robi) honor to varying degrees. Grameenphone is the strictest — deploys filter updates within a day of BTRC notices. Banglalink is middle. Robi tends to lag by a few days. All three can drop mirrors quickly during a new enforcement wave.
The March 22, 2026 outage was Grameenphone-specific and lasted 5 days. It was an IP-level null route, not a DNS block, so swapping DNS did nothing. The Pin Up Android app was the only reliable workaround because its bundled fallback IPs were outside Grameenphone's filter range.
Azerbaijan — Open
Azerbaijan is similar to Kazakhstan — open, stable, no major regulator action against Pin Up. My Baku residential line hits 93.7% uptime over 90 days. Azerconnect is the main carrier and its filters mostly target local political content, not gambling.
Uzbekistan — Open
Uzbekistan tracks slightly lower at 92.4% uptime due to occasional regional peering issues that slow response times rather than block them outright. Uztelecom is the dominant ISP and generally compliant with user access. Pin Up works directly without VPN or DNS swap in most cases.
Countries Where Pin Up Is Fully Blocked
Some countries are fully blocked at the regulator level and I don't track them actively because there's no reliable workaround short of a full-time VPN. Turkey (BTK block list), UAE (TDRA content filter), Saudi Arabia, and North Korea are in this category. I mention them here for completeness but I don't recommend using Pin Up from these countries — the legal and practical friction is too high.
The US, UK, and most EU member states are different — Pin Up's operator doesn't serve these markets because they require local licenses Pin Up doesn't hold. These aren't "blocked," they're "not offered." Attempting to sign up from these countries will fail at the account-creation step.
Honesty Note on Legal Availability
This page is an access status resource, not legal advice. I do not claim that a mirror or VPN makes use legal in restricted jurisdictions. A mirror changes routing, not local law. If you need legal certainty, check your local regulator notices directly.
Related Pages
For the regulatory context behind these blocks, see why Pin Up is blocked in some countries. For VPN server recommendations per origin country, see the VPN guide. For today's working mirror URLs by country, see the working links page. And for the full 90-day uptime dataset, see the status history page.
Last verified: April 11, 2026.
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Jake Reynolds
6 years testing gambling access across 30+ countries, residential IPs only, no datacenter shortcuts.
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