Blacklisted? Why have my instant email notifications stopped?

[h3rk]

Unfortunately UCE-Protect is an extortion service and commonly do this and blacklist an entire network in order to force that network to pay to be unlisted. We'll do everything we can to be unlisted from UCEProtect but we will not, under any circumstances, pay to be removed from their list.

Our recomendation is that you contact your ISP and instruct them not to use UCEProtect as it isn't a spam protection service but an extortion service that blindly blacklists very very large networks.

Thanks for the info, I'll take it back to network solutions. In the likely case that they tell me to pack sand, I suppose I'll be packing up and moving somewhere else. Goodie, then I get to learn how to move a domain name and any/all related joys. I'm sure there are plenty of comparable, simple web hosting/email services.

[h3rk]

Thank you for contacting Network Solutions. We are committed to creating the best customer experience possible. One of the first ways we can demonstrate our commitment to this goal is to quickly and efficiently handle your recent request.



We do apologized if your having issue sending with your webmail. Our abuse department is currently working with UCEPROTECT to have the blocked remove.

We are currently experiencing an issue with delivery of email to Clients using UCEPROTECT Spam Filters. Our engineers are working diligently to resolve this issue and waiting for a response from UCEPROTECT. We apologize for the delay and any inconvenience this may cause".

I have to admit, I wasn't expecting that. I called and bluntly asked them to quit using UCEPROTECT, or otherwise find a way to support me getting email from my favorite forum, giving them a link to this thread, and I got this email. I was expecting something early to mid next week or so.

Thanks for that insight W6-Ryan.

[Fiberoptic]

I don't know how true it is and it seems slightly biased but there is an interesting wiki article here:

http://wiki.openrbl.org/wiki/Talk:UCEProtect

[warpdrive]

Unfortunately UCE-Protect is an extortion service and commonly do this and blacklist an entire network in order to force that network to pay to be unlisted. We'll do everything we can to be unlisted from UCEProtect but we will not, under any circumstances, pay to be removed from their list.

I'm not responsible for UCEPROTECT's policies, but i work at their hotline.

It seems the problem is GNAX once again hosting lots of spammers.

Have a look at the IP's which are causing the problem and see what you get as PTR's:

http://www.uceprotect.net/en/rblcheck.php?asn=3595

Scroll down complete to see the IP's which got listed at Level 1 and so causing the problem.

So lets see some of the IP's and decide what it is:

63.247.64.65 mail1.awesomemktg.net
63.247.64.66 mail2.awesomemktg.net
and so on some hundrets more of that one..

Now lets look to whom you can say THANK YOU for being listed:

Domain Name: awesomemktg.net
Registrar: Name.com LLC

Expiration Date: 2009-04-28 00:00:00
Creation Date: 2008-04-28 16:06:07

Name Servers:
ns1.awesomemktg.net
ns2.awesomemktg.net

REGISTRANT CONTACT INFO
Inet Advertising
Domain Administrator
234 Morrell Rd.
Suite 160
Knoxville
TN
37919
US
Phone: +1.6155126750
Email Address: inetadvertising.admin@gmail.com

63.247.64.100

and let's see who is that:

Domain Name: differentmktg.net
Registrar: Name.com LLC

Expiration Date: 2009-04-28 00:00:00
Creation Date: 2008-04-28 16:06:08

Name Servers:
ns1.differentmktg.net
ns2.differentmktg.net

REGISTRANT CONTACT INFO
Inet Advertising
Domain Administrator
234 Morrell Rd.
Suite 160
Knoxville
TN
37919
US
Phone: +1.6155126750
Email Address: inetadvertising.admin@gmail.com

Lets pick another IP from that space ...

63.247.95.100 mail4.mailingsforconsumers.net

Domain Name: mailingsforconsumers.net
Registrar: Name.com LLC

Expiration Date: 2009-04-13 00:00:00
Creation Date: 2008-04-13 16:33:56

Name Servers:
ns2.mailingsforconsumers.net
ns1.mailingsforconsumers.net

REGISTRANT CONTACT INFO
Inet Advertising
Domain Administrator
234 Morrell Rd.
Suite 160
Knoxville
TN
37919
US
Phone: +1.6155126750
Email Address: inetadvertising.admin@gmail.com

Our recomendation is that you contact your ISP and instruct them not to use UCEProtect as it isn't a spam protection service but an extortion service that blindly blacklists very very large networks.

I recommend that you youse your brain and investigate first before claiming others extortion racketeers, if you don't want to be called a spamsupporter.

If you will do the work and have a look to that list above then you will find that GNAX did lease some hundret IP's to a well known spammer.

Claiming they would not have known about that is futile.

The PTR's given should have been warning enough to know that it will be no brave customer.

All of the domains within the complete Listings were registered less than 3 month ago and for only one reason - spamming.

Spammers lie and so does GNAX.

GNAX wants YOUR money, but they also want spammers money.
They did exactly knew that they will end up in UCEPROTECT-Level 3 again if they will give complete /24 Networks to spammers again as they did it one year ago too.

Just google for GNAX and UCEPROTECT and you will find the old thread.

You should search for better uplinks.

Companies as Microsoft do exactly know why they are using UCEPROTECT and you will not get them to drop us, because UCEPROTECT works for them.

Have a look at AL IVERSON's independant staistics:

http://stats.dnsbl.com/uce3.html

That translates to: UCEPROTECT-Level 3 (which lists complete providers) has blocked about 40% spammails, but less than 0.3% false positives

Could that mean that those some hundret providers which manage to end up in Level 3 are responsible for 40% of the globval spam, but less than 0,3% real mail came from their networks and ranges?

[Bugbyte]

mp3Car has changed I.P. addresses to fix this issue. Resolution is in this thread: Important Notice: IP Change

Closing this thread.