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Nah. It's in the Fortiguard category "Newly Observed Domain". So, it hasn't been classified yet, and that person's corporate filter was setup to block those pages.

Wouldn't that be a ridiculously dumb heuristic to employ?

Who ever said corporate IT was smart?

Another view of it: Someone in Management sent a message something like "Stop pointing me to the Scunthorpe Problem wikipedia page[1], just block all these sites" directive and this was the easiest way to resolve it permanently.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem

Maybe because it’s close to ‘mega’ and all those variants of what used to be mega upload are like whackamole.