ICloud backups blocked by ISP parental filters

My ISP, ie BT Broadband, has recently started blocking iCloud under their parental filters. This meant that I couldn't connect a web browser to www.icloud.com and my iphone and ipad backups to icloud were also failing.
I can add URLS to the whitelisting for the parental filters, but i don't know what URL my iphone tries to connect to when its backing up?
Anyone know the URL(s) that i would need to add to the whitelisting to re-enable the iCloud backups?
My only other option is to turn off the parental filtering, which i really don't want to do.

Thank you for your help, pvonk! Unfortunately I have the same issue with iCloud! But I can only guess that the mail is blocked by iCloud.
I am talking about my mobile phone provider. I just cannot receive the invoices by mail, eventhough they are supposed to send them each month. But i do receive their newsletters tho. So it seams like the whole domain is NOT blocked by iCloud but i still cannot receive the invoices. I do not doubt them to send them each month.
I thank you for your help in advance!

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