How to access a site from which I have been banned?

Why can't I access the "My Anime List" site suddenly?

• Since a couple of days ago, I suddenly lost access to myanimelist(dot)net. It's not that I'm banned or anything, I don't get any sort of special error or message, it just tries finding the site and then it gives me the standard "Problem loading page: The connection has timed out" (when using Firefox) or "could not connect to remote server" (when using Opera). I could access the site normally before, and I just browse it, I don't post anything. I don't even have an account, so there's no reason I should be actively blocked. I've tried looking everywhere for any clues as to why this is happening, and the only relevant thing I've found is on the myanimelist facebook page, where in December a guy from Brazil wrote a post asking "Why I can only open the site using proxy? I'm from Brazil." The replies that followed where: "MyAnimeList: As much i would like to help, we are just the admins of the facebook page sorry. Two admins are from Brazil and they don't have that problem, could it be the internet provider blocking the website? (December 27, 2011 at 10:31am) Filipe Fleming: My provider is already aware of the problem, they do not block anything. Maybe they put fixed IP address, but I do not know if it will happen soon. I believe IP range that MAL blocked to reduce spammers also affected other people. ;/ (December 27, 2011 at 2:47pm) Filipe Fleming: IP started in 177 (December 27, 2011 at 2:48pm) " I'm from Romania though, so there's not much geographical relevance, but maybe there's something to what that guy is saying? So, what I'm asking is, does anybody else have this problem? Have you fixed in any other way than using a proxy? I don't even know how to use a proxy to see if it would work, though. Do you have any suggestions to a solution, or at least a possible explanation? I'd love to contact the site admins to ask them, but I can't through the site, obviously, and just like it says in the post, the facebook page admin has nothing to do with the actual website. So I'd appreciate if anybody could ask them about this. Thanks in advance for replying

• Answer:

  I am from Romania too and i have exactly the same problem. Our ip's might be blocked even though we don't receive the blocked ips messages. It's really frustrating and i don't know what to do. I asked somebody else to check the myanimelistforums and they all say to reset the router. I tried that and it doesn't work Proxy connection might work...but I wouldn't advise it. Proxy servers owners can see everything you do, copy you paswords or your credit card numbers and the connection is incredibly slow.