Domain blocked wrongly

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Expected Behaviour:

ping mia.nl.tab.digital should reply with an IP address

Actual Behaviour:

No address provided. Status in pi-hole is Blocked (external, NXRA)

I tried disabling pi-hole - no difference.
I tried different DNS servers. I have Quad9 (filtered, DNSSEC) selected. I tried Google and OpenDNS - no difference.
I manually set my network connection to use 9.9.9.9 only and it worked (which should be the same as Quad9.

I don't get why 9.9.9.9 as DNS worked but pi-hole doesn't and it's not pi-hole that is deliberately blocking

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The important word here is external.
Pi-hole is not blocking this domain, but the upstream DNS (9.9.9.9) is blocking it.

Here, Quad9 can't resolve the domain:

rdweb@server: ~ $ nslookup mia.nl.tab.digital 9.9.9.9
Server:         9.9.9.9
Address:        9.9.9.9#53

** server can't find mia.nl.tab.digital: NXDOMAIN
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Thanks - you are correct. I've tried again and if I define 9.9.9.9 as my DNS I still don't get the name resolved (I can't explain what I did first time when it did get resolved- I presume I must have put a wrong DNS in when manually configuring my network to avoid my pi-hole). Checking on Quad9's website they do in fact confirm that they are blocking it.

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