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Geo rules lock out the site owner and admins

Geo rules lock out the site owner, their own country, or admins with dynamic IPs, and exceptions do not work.

Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.

3 public reports · first reported 4 July 2022 · last reported 10 August 2025

Idea report · $9 · No contacts · All sales final

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What's going wrong

Owners who whitelist or blacklist countries sometimes find that the rule shuts them out.

AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.

In the idea report

  • The full summary.
  • The products the 3 reports are about, and how many came each month.
  • Related problems.

No business has been found with this problem yet, so the report has no contacts. All sales are final — no refunds. Pricing.