Is Paypal blocked in the Philippines?

I only noticed this a couple of days ago when a good friend of mine was visiting me here. He was chatting with his mom who’s in Canada over YM. While talking about the possibility of opening a Paypal account for her from Canada, he fired up a browser and was going to guide his mom thru the sign-up process.

Alas, the Paypal website does not load up. I did a ping and traceroute but got nothing still. Paypal is up, that I am sure of but it seems they’ve blocked access from IPs originating in the Philippines, or maybe those under the PLDT network at the very least.

Could you try it from your end and leave me a feedback?

Abe Olandres

Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

https://www.yugatech.com

26 Comments

Guru Jeff says:

19 years ago

Paypal is not currently available in some countries like thew philippines, for some reasons… that i think we are still a third world country. Try services over at yehey.com that works like paypal…
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Abe Olandres says:

19 years ago

Hi Jeff,

Was soliciting feedback if anybody else can access their website now.

I used to be able to access their website from here in the Philippines and transact using their service. It was only lately that even the website does not load.

Could you try from your end if you can see their website?
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Fleeb says:

19 years ago

I am able to access PayPal as of this writing. I followed the sign up link and I got through.
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Manuel Viloria says:

19 years ago

Hi Abe! I’m able to access Paypal via my dial-up connection.
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kzap says:

19 years ago

I can’t access PayPal on PLDT MyDSL, i dont like this, I hope its not paypal blocking the Philippines, though they say their website shouldnt be used from the Philippines, really this is the internet, they shouldnt censor IPs.
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jayvee says:

19 years ago

an alternative to paypal is http://xoom.com which works prett well imho.

no paypal here in the philippines.
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Abe Olandres says:

19 years ago

Ahhh, so it’s just limited to PLDT IPs then.

I’ve tried Xoom so many times and yes it has worked for me as well. Was even impressed with their home-delivery service which was able to send in their messengeer at 9 in the evening.

GoDaddy did the same thing two years ago when it blocked a lot of Philippine IPs. I had to send out several letters to them requesting to un-block us because it affected our service at plogHost. I stopped using GoDaddy after that.

With Paypal, they claim that the Philippines is home to a lot of credit card fraud which is why they don’t provide the service here.
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Fleeb says:

19 years ago

Hmm seems like they blocked static IPs. Mine is dynamic over a dialup connection.
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cecille says:

19 years ago

i can access paypal. i’m using digitel’s dsl.
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DJB says:

19 years ago

[off topic but weird…] I have this digital radio alarm clock which used to keep perfect time (I mean perfect, as in-synch with an atomic world time server to the second over a period of months).

Lately I thought I might have to replace it. Because it’s running fast, as in ten minutes in one week. Faster than the specs for its BOMBPROOF components specify. And my electric bill is running wild.

Anybody know or hear of similar “malfunctions”?
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