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Sunday, August 30, 2015

How to Get Removed IP from Blacklists ?

There are tens and hundreds of blacklists that help to fight spam. Using one or more blacklists for filtering incoming emails can eliminate up to 99 % of spam. However, no blacklisting system is perfect and hence from time to time it might happen that a good address is blacklisted too. And there are more scenarios in which it makes sense to allow blacklisted addresses to be removed from the list. For example, a server hosting company might have a poor client who sends spam and recognizes that using a blacklist monitoring service. The hosting closes the client’s account. What is left is an IP address that belongs to the hosting company and it is blacklisted. This is when blacklist removal needs to be done, so that the IP can be cleaned and assigned to a new client. 

General Instructions
If your IP address is blacklisted on one or more blacklists, you should note that blacklists are managed by different owners. There is no central entity that you can contact and ask for removal from all blacklists. We at Online Domain Tools do not maintain any of the blacklists and it is thus pointless to contact us with removal requests. Here is how to proceed when you are blacklisted and want to be removed, assuming you are listed on a blacklist named xyz.domain.com:

  •   Many DNS-based blacklists not only provide information that a certain address is listed (via a valid A DNS record), but they also provide additional details in a TXT DNS record. Good blacklist checkers provide this information to the end user. This is the primary source of links where the user can get more information about the listing and instructions on how to ask for removal. Not all blacklists work like this, however. Some blacklists do provide additional information, but they do not provide any link. And there are also blacklists that do not provide TXT records at all.  
  •  If there was no additional information provided by the blacklist itself, you can try to search for this info using your favorite search engine. Search for xyz.domain.com in the search engine. If there are no relevant results, search for domain.com blacklist, domain.com dnsbl, or domain.com rbl. If nothing helped, try to directly access http://xyz.domain.com/ and http://domain.com/ to see if there is a web page. For most of the blacklists, this should be enough to locate a web page with instructions on how to get removed.
  • If still nothing helped, you are listed on one of the blacklists that does not have a web page. Try to use Whois and enter domain.com to get contact information to the owner of the domain. Try to contact them and ask for removal.
  • Note that some lists operates fully automatically and do not accept removal requests. In case of these blacklists, the listed IP address will be removed automatically, once a certain period of time elapses. Obviously, this requires that the IP address no longer expresses the behavior because of which it became listed in the first place.
List of Removal Links for Active Blacklists
We have done the work for you for most of the active DNSBL and RBL blacklists out there. Here are their information and removal links:
Blacklist
Info/Removal Link
0spam.fusionzero.com
access.redhawk.org
all.rbl.jp
all.s5h.net
all.spamrats.com
aspews.ext.sorbs.net
b.barracudacentral.org
backscatter.spameatingmonkey.net
bb.barracudacentral.org
bl.blocklist.de
bl.drmx.org
bl.emailbasura.org
bl.konstant.no
bl.mailspike.net
bl.mav.com.br
bl.nosolicitado.org
bl.nszones.com
bl.scientificspam.net
bl.score.senderscore.com
bl.suomispam.net
bl.spamcannibal.org
bl.spamcop.net
bl.spameatingmonkey.net
bl.spamstinks.com
blacklist.woody.ch
block.dnsbl.sorbs.net
bsb.empty.us
bsb.spamlookup.net
cbl.abuseat.org
cbl.anti-spam.org.cn
cblless.anti-spam.org.cn
cblplus.anti-spam.org.cn
cdl.anti-spam.org.cn
cidr.bl.mcafee.com
combined.rbl.msrbl.net
db.wpbl.info
dnsbl-1.uceprotect.net
dnsbl-2.uceprotect.net
dnsbl-3.uceprotect.net
dnsbl.anticaptcha.net
dnsbl.aspnet.hu
dnsbl.burnt-tech.com
dnsbl.cobion.com
dnsbl.dronebl.org
dnsbl.inps.de
dnsbl.justspam.org
dnsbl.kempt.net
dnsbl.net.ua
dnsbl.proxybl.org
dnsbl.rv-soft.info
dnsbl.rymsho.ru
dnsbl.sorbs.net
dnsbl.spam-champuru.livedoor.com
dnsbl.tornevall.org
dnsbl.webequipped.com
dnsbl.zapbl.net
dnsblchile.org
dnsrbl.swinog.ch
dul.dnsbl.sorbs.net
dul.pacifier.net
dul.ru
dyn.nszones.com
dyna.spamrats.com
escalations.dnsbl.sorbs.net
exitnodes.tor.dnsbl.sectoor.de
fnrbl.fast.net
forbidden.icm.edu.pl
free.v4bl.org
hostkarma.junkemailfilter.com
http.dnsbl.sorbs.net
images.rbl.msrbl.net
intercept.datapacket.net
ip.v4bl.org
ipbl.mailhosts.org
ipbl.zeustracker.abuse.ch
ips.backscatterer.org
ix.dnsbl.manitu.net
korea.services.net
l1.bbfh.ext.sorbs.net
l2.apews.org
l2.bbfh.ext.sorbs.net
l3.bbfh.ext.sorbs.net
l4.bbfh.ext.sorbs.net
list.bbfh.org
list.blogspambl.com
list.quorum.to
lookup.dnsbl.iip.lu
mail-abuse.blacklist.jippg.org
misc.dnsbl.sorbs.net
multi.surbl.org
netbl.spameatingmonkey.net
netblockbl.spamgrouper.com
netscan.rbl.blockedservers.com
new.spam.dnsbl.sorbs.net
noptr.spamrats.com
old.spam.dnsbl.sorbs.net
pbl.spamhaus.org
phishing.rbl.msrbl.net
pofon.foobar.hu
problems.dnsbl.sorbs.net
projecthoneypot.org
proxies.dnsbl.sorbs.net
psbl.surriel.com
rbl.abuse.ro
rbl.blockedservers.com
rbl.dns-servicios.com
rbl.efnet.org
rbl.efnetrbl.org
rbl.interserver.net
rbl.iprange.net
rbl.megarbl.net
rbl.polarcomm.net
rbl.rbldns.ru
rbl.talkactive.net
rbl2.triumf.ca
recent.spam.dnsbl.sorbs.net
relays.bl.kundenserver.de
relays.dnsbl.sorbs.net
rep.mailspike.net
safe.dnsbl.sorbs.net
sbl.nszones.com
sbl.spamhaus.org
short.rbl.jp
shortlist.mailhosts.org
singlebl.spamgrouper.com
smtp.dnsbl.sorbs.net
socks.dnsbl.sorbs.net
spam.dnsbl.anonmails.de
spam.dnsbl.sorbs.net
spam.pedantic.org
spam.rbl.blockedservers.com
spam.rbl.msrbl.net
spam.spamrats.com
spamguard.leadmon.net
spamlist.or.kr
spamrbl.imp.ch
spamsources.fabel.dk
srn.surgate.net
st.technovision.dk
tor.dnsbl.sectoor.de
torexit.dan.me.uk
truncate.gbudb.net
ubl.unsubscore.com
virbl.dnsbl.bit.nl
virus.rbl.jp
virus.rbl.msrbl.net
vote.drbl.caravan.ru
vote.drbl.gremlin.ru
web.dnsbl.sorbs.net
web.rbl.msrbl.net
work.drbl.caravan.ru
work.drbl.gremlin.ru
wormrbl.imp.ch
xbl.spamhaus.org
z.mailspike.net
zen.spamhaus.org
zombie.dnsbl.sorbs.net


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