websites starting with https://sec.

I have been using a website (similar to e-Bay. I can't say which one, because the last time I mentioned it the post got deleted by e-Bay) for many years now, but in the last few days the links have all changed from https://www. to https://sec. - I think it's some form of security certificate. I read it in the bar at the top of the screen. The end result is that I cannot access any of the pages that I have saved in my favourites nor do any of the links found directly on the website work. All I get is connection timed out or something similar. It happens in all browsers I use (Firefox, Edge and IE)

 

However, if I log on to the website using my password etc everything works fine and the links, both directly on the site and from my favourites work okay. The bar then reads https;//www.

 

It started a few days ago. At first, just the feedback was not visible, later on it started asking me to input one of those illegible security captcha things and this occurred every 5th or 6th link. And now it stops me accessing the page altogether

 

I have contacted their technical support but they were unable to help. Can anyone advise?

 

Thanks in anticipation

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websites starting with https://sec.

I've hopefully sorted this by simply resetting and rebooting my router.

 

The site must have thought I was some kind of bot as I'd spent quite a while searching for something the other day and it must have wondered why IP address 1*-***-***-*1 was on their site for so long and downloading so many pages. Hence they put a security tag on that IP address to prevent it from crashing their site, but when I logged in with the same address they allowed everything. Resetting the router obviously gives you a new IP address and now all is okay, whether I'm logged in or not.

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