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Old Feb 28, 2019, 7:18 am
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xliioper
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They have pretty clearly enabled Akamai's location-based blacklisting. Note the error message above matches Akamai's documentation for blocked/blacklisted IP's. There's speculation they are doing this out of security concerns (possible account compromises/hijacking), or perhaps tax/regulation concerns (by selling tickets outside their markets). You can get around it by going through a VPN/tunnel that uses US-based IP addresses.

https://community.akamai.com/custome...language=en_US

It's also possible the address space you are using has a poor reputation score. But given the widespread reports, it's seems pretty clear WN is simply using location-based blocks. You can check IP address reputation score and whether it's blacklisted here --
https://www.akamai.com/us/en/clientrep-lookup/

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