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How do I get my domain off a blocklist?

If you find yourself with a blocklisted domain, most blocklists offer advice for delisting your domain. Spamhaus, for example, offers a “” where you can enter your IP address or domain name and find information on how to get off the blocklist.

InboxReady Deliverability Monitoring also offers actionable advice if you’re blocklisted, so you’re delisted as soon as possible.

What are some best practices for staying off a blocklist?

After delisting, you may want to  and follow our best practices for sending emails. Check out our list of do’s and don’ts below.

Do:

• Keep a  Clean up your contacts. Try re-engagement campaigns to activate dormant subscribers and remove those who don’t respond.
•  for specific interests, customer types, and purchase history. This will help keep your subscribers engaged. Relevant emails mean fewer spam complaints.
• Have an easy-to-find unsubscribe link in every email.
• Consider an email preference center, so your subscribers can choose what type of emails to get from you and their frequency.
• Use double opt-ins to avoid  like honeypots.
• Use  to prove your identity as a sender with mailbox providers.

Don’t:

• Do anything that makes you look like a spammer (i.e., overuse of ALL CAPS, exclamation points, and spammy language)
• Use  Clean up your code.
• Rely on all-image emails. Try to maintain
• Purchase an email list. (Don’t do this. Ever.)

Aside from content, you can use email authentication protocols to avoid landing on a blocklist. That includes , and  Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance  These help the mailbox provider confirm that the message is legitimate and coming from a trusted sender.

Wrapping up

Besides following the best practices above, we have one last piece of advice for avoiding landing on a blocklist: run spam tests and monitor deliverability!

Always run spam tests and blocklist checks, even if you’ve sent the email before. Spam filters and blocklists are always changing and updating, so an email that made it to the inbox yesterday could be spam tomorrow.

With Email on Acid’s you can check your emai against the most common spam filters and blocklists to ensure your message reaches the inbox. Then, get super serious about deliverability with  including ongoing blocklist monitoring for multiple IP addresses.

We’ve said it once, and we’ll probably say it 100 times more:  is the elephant in the room for email marketing.

play a significant role in deliverability. And as far as blocklists are concerned, email content isn’t the only factor determining if a domain is blocklisted.

In this post, we’ll go over what a blocklist is, how Philippines Business Email List  domains end up on blocklists, how to delist a domain name, and some best practices to avoid landing on the blocklist.

This post was updated on September 21, 2022. It was first published in March 2019.