My domain is blacklisted or not? Now what?

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I run a traffic exchange www.my3wmarketing.com that sends member emails as one of its services. I login to day to gmail and suddenly see that all emails originating from the domain is in the SPAM folder, so I mark the emails as "Not Spam", but they are still getting into the spam folder.

I checked ran a check on several blacklist sites
- invaluement DNSBL Lookup & Removal Request Utility
- BLACKLISTALERT.ORG - Test if your IP or DOMAIN is listed in a spamdatabase and
- Lookup/Removal Tool | The Abusive Hosts Blocking List

andd see that the only two servers that the domain is listed on are bl.spamcannibal.org & zen.spamhaus.org,

But when I sent an email to my Aweber list containing a tracking link to the website and ran a spam assesment, the 2.5 score is resulted from containing a link to my3wmarketing.com and since I am subscribed to my own list with two different email addresses (one as whitelisted and one as not) the email that I DID NOT whitelist my email address never recieved the email.

What actions can I possably take to rectify this beyond putting a "This is not SPAM, you signed up to recieve email messages from..." disclaimer in the the footer of the emails being sent out?

Thank you guys for any help and tips provided
~ Ross Vaughn
#blacklisted #domain
  • Profile picture of the author Dan C. Rinnert
    It could be a problem with your host. I couldn't get info from the SpamCannibal site, but on the SpamHaus site, it looks like the blacklisting might be because someone else using that mail server was flagged as a spammer.

    If that's the case, then your options would be to have your host take care of the issue with their mail server. Else, you might need to move to a new host.
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    • Profile picture of the author Spinethetic
      Originally Posted by Dan C. Rinnert View Post

      It could be a problem with your host. I couldn't get info from the SpamCannibal site, but on the SpamHaus site, it looks like the blacklisting might be because someone else using that mail server was flagged as a spammer.

      If that's the case, then your options would be to have your host take care of the issue with their mail server. Else, you might need to move to a new host.
      That may be it, because there are (I think) 3 or 4 other similiar sites running on this server. Just sucks that since one of them has tendencies to screw around, not only I, but others feel grief for it. :-P
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      • Profile picture of the author clint48
        Yep, could be the server. I had a PTR site a few years ago and had the same problem. I didn't move to another hosting because I had no idea if I would run in to the same problem or not since I would still be sharing a server with others.

        Clint
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  • Profile picture of the author bhola badshah
    Mostly ip gets blacklisted , better have dedicated ip if you are on shared hosting. dedicated ip hardly cost 2-5$ a month but it prevents your from such situation. and also prevent other shared clients on the same server if anything wrong is done from you.
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