“If the court grants beIN’s request, Quad9 will have to take action to avoid millions of euros in fines per week.”
beIN wants €10,000 per domain per day from a Swiss nonprofit that runs a free DNS resolver. Quad9 cannot block for French users only without guessing locations from IP databases. So it either blocks 58 domains for the whole world or stops serving France, as OpenDNS did in 2024. Either way, a sports broadcaster’s lawsuit sets DNS policy for people outside France.