process for correcting IP reputation problems?

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Some proxy or hosting ranges remain flagged by services such as Spamhaus, MaxMind, or IPQualityScore even after the original abuse has stopped. Providers often replace the allocation instead of trying to correct its reputation.
Has anyone dealt with the legitimate remediation process for an incorrectly or historically flagged range?
I'm interested in what evidence reputation services expect, how long remediation normally takes, and whether providers can realistically restore a range after cleaning up the underlying abuse.
 
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yeah it can be fixed, but only after the abuse is actually gone. then you need separate correction/delist requests for each service… if the whole range has a long bad history, replacing it may still be easier
 
restlex said:
Some proxy or hosting ranges remain flagged by services such as Spamhaus, MaxMind, or IPQualityScore even after the original abuse has stopped. Providers often replace the allocation instead of trying to correct its reputation.
Has anyone dealt with the legitimate remediation process for an incorrectly or historically flagged range?
I'm interested in what evidence reputation services expect, how long remediation normally takes, and whether providers can realistically restore a range after cleaning up the underlying abuse.
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Whether a range can be rehabilitated really depends on why it was flagged in the first place. If it's tied to recent abuse and you've addressed the root cause, submitting delisting or correction requests with supporting evidence can work, but reputation databases don't all update on the same schedule. If the entire subnet has a long history of abuse, providers often decide it's more practical to move to a cleaner allocation than wait for reputation to recover.
 
Halting all traffic from an IP address for at least 30 days is an effective way to get it removed from some blacklists such as IP2Proxy.
 
restlex said:
Some proxy or hosting ranges remain flagged by services such as Spamhaus, MaxMind, or IPQualityScore even after the original abuse has stopped. Providers often replace the allocation instead of trying to correct its reputation.
Has anyone dealt with the legitimate remediation process for an incorrectly or historically flagged range?
I'm interested in what evidence reputation services expect, how long remediation normally takes, and whether providers can realistically restore a range after cleaning up the underlying abuse.
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removing the blocks may depend on the seriousness of the origonal use .
 
Don't rely on what a 3rd party entity says or ranks. If a proxy is good, it is good - even if one of these ticks says contrary. If a proxy is bad, it is bad even if these sites shows Green. So, testing is the more important thing.
 
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