7 Min Read | 5 Sep 2024 | Key Words: IP reputation, IP abuse, IP blacklist

How serious spam activities around the world are!

Have you ever received spam emails? Spam is a global problem, and it happens every day. But there are some countries that don’t take effective actions to stop spammers. The anti-spam laws are so weak and useless that these countries become safe havens for spammers to engage in malicious activities. Here are the 5 worst spam countries in the world as of 10 January 2023.

The 5 Worst Spam Countries as of 10 January 2023:

Data Source： The Spamhaus Project

Actually, spam is one kind of IP abuse that will affect IP reputation. IP abuse is a device attacked by another device with an IP address when connected to the internet. It is a catch-all term to describe cybercrime, including different types of hack attacks, e.g. DDoS attacks, spam, malware attacks, and phishing attacks.

What is IP reputation?

IP reputation is a measure that helps evaluate how trustworthy an IP address is and determine whether its requests are legitimate or not. It will help to distinguish between genuine email sending, browsing behavior, spam, phishing, hacking and so on.

Who cares IP address Reputation?

As lessees, what they are concerned about is how the reputation of IP addresses leased from IP owners are? IP lessees will check IP reputation before making a deal with IP owners. It will affect the business of IP leasees when getting an IP address with a low IP reputation.

For example, when a website gets hijacked or it is used to do some malicious work, the IP reputation will go down. If IP reputation is bad, emails sent from this IP address may get flagged as spam. Therefore, as an IP owner, it is necessary to check IP reputation before IP address leasing and clear the problem if necessary.

The most common IP abuses are spam and phishing sites, accounting for 42% and 30% respectively. A strong IP reputation means the IP address is reliable and trustworthy. IP abuse could lower the IP reputation of one IP address. If IP owners get a bad IP reputation, it is difficult for them to use IP addresses or lease them. So IP owners always concern about what kind of businesses the leasee will use IP address for and avoid leasing IP address to those IP leasee who will abuse them.

How can an IP owner master IP reputation Check?

How is IP reputation determined?

The same as credit score, it is possible for IP owners to gain a bad IP reputation if they have some bad action records in the past. And ISP (Internet Service Providers) can put a bad label on an IP address based on specific metrics, including:

• Spam traps or honeypots
• High bounce rates
• Spam complaints
• Volume of emails
• Frequency of emails

How can an IP owner check IP reputation?

Checking IP reputation periodically will solve the problems once the IP address is blacklisted. But how to get detailed information about IP reputation? There are some tools or databases which are used to search for information about IP reputation, like Spamhaus Project.

The Spamhaus Project is a useful tool for IP owners to check IP reputation, clear listing and removal information in case IP address is being blacklisted. IP owners can check their IP reputation through Spamhaus regularly to make sure that the IP reputation is unproblematic. And following the requirements of Spamhaus to clear IP reputation when the IP address is on the blacklist because of IP abuses such as phishing, malware and botnets.

How to prevent IP reputation from becoming worse?

Two Suggestions to prevent IP abuse

Change your privacy settings. Change the settings on all your instant messaging as well as other apps to “private”, and don’t accept calls or messages from people you don’t know. Hackers could gain access to your IP address through communication apps like Telegram.

Update your firewalls and routers. Criminals can hack your routers remotely and retrieve your IP addresses, especially if you are still using the default one. It is a good choice to change the passwords of your routers regularly and use a long mix of upper- and lowercase letters, numerials, and special characters.

How to remove IP address from blacklists if IP reputation is low？

Finding out why you were blacklisted and solved all the problems, you can try to get it back. Visit blacklist database websites like The Spamhaus Project, then follow those instructions for their IP address removal process. Here’s what you might encounter:

• Self-service removal. Some blacklists have self-deletion features that allow you to effortlessly remove your IP blacklisted address.
• Time-based removal. The majority of blacklists have a built-in automated process that removes lower-level lists.

How IPv4 Superhub helps improve IP reputation for IP owners?

IP owners even do not know why their IP address is on the blacklist and how to remove it because it is complicated. It is also difficult for IP owners to avoid IP abuse after leasing their IP address like spam, phishing, DDoS attacks. Choosing an established platform will help solve them. IPv4Superhub will be the one you can consult on how to clear the IP address of the blacklisted record.

How does IPv4 Superhub maintain IP addresses with a good reputation?

We provide IP reputation check and blacklist removal services if leases IP address on our Lease Market. We will clear the IP blacklisted records before leasing IP address on Lease Market. When tenant agrees to rent an IP address through IPv4Superhub. We are the reliable IP address broker to clean blacklisting records from various IP reputation databases.

After leasing IP address, we will continue to help monitor IP reputation and give feedback to you. We will provide a solution and help maintain a strong IP reputation if IP address has caused some trouble. You can contact us now to enjoy our services!

Our IP reputation Check Services

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