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Widespread False Positives: "Residential Hosting" blocking critical public services and government infra in Thailand

Hi NextDNS Team,

I would like to report widespread false positive issues regarding the "Residential Hosting" (Early Access) security feature in Thailand.

In Thailand, a significant portion of official public infrastructure including government departments, public disaster monitoring, municipalities, and state universities operates on-premises servers directly routed through state enterprise ISP IP pools (primarily National Telecom / NT, formerly TOT and CAT Telecom). Global IP intelligence feeds frequently misclassify these institutional IP subnets as dynamic/consumer residential pools.

As a result, critical daily-use public services and mobile backends are persistently blocked:

1. National Hydro-Informatics / Weather & Disaster Monitoring:

2. Public Administration & Local Government (*.go.th):

  • Multiple provincial administration websites, municipal portals, and local health office services using NT/TOT leased lines.

3. Education & Research Networks (*.ac.th):

  • Several regional university portals and library repositories hosted locally on campus networks.

Suggestion: Could you please adjust the heuristic logic or create an exception mechanism so that:

  1. Official second-level government domains (*.go.th) and educational domains (*.ac.th) are automatically exempted from the Residential Hosting block.
  2. Known ASN subnets belonging to Thai state telecom enterprise infrastructure (NT Public Company Limited / AS38082, AS23855, AS9834) are re-evaluated to avoid blanket residential classification.

Thank you for looking into this

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