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    • 9 new fields added in the Blacklists Database

      9 new fields added in the Blacklists Database

      There are several new fields in both Blacklists API and Offline Database. It will help you see the exact time of the checks and a few other things.

      Offline Database

      In the Offline Database there are 4 new fields for the IP files:

      • IP updated time – time from the corresponding date fields. Format: HH:MM:SS
      • Net updated time – time from the corresponding date fields. Format: HH:MM:SS
      • AS updated time – time from the corresponding date fields. Format: HH:MM:SS
      • Last updated – date and time of the last status update. Format: YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS

      And 3 new fields for email files:

      • Submitted time – time from the corresponding date fields. Format: HH:MM:SS
      • Updated time – time from the corresponding date fields. Format: HH:MM:SS
      • Last updated – date and time of the last status update. Format: HH:MM:SS

      spam_check() API method

      As for the spam_check() API method, there were two new fields added for email checking:

      • in_antispam_updated – date and time of the last status update. Format: YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS. API response example,
      JSONwe******@cl*******.org":{"frequency": 0,"submitted": "2024-08-05 09:13:35","updated": "2024-08-05 09:13:35", "spam_rate": 0,"exists": 1,"spam_frequency_24h": 0,"appears": 0,"disposable_email": 0, "in_antispam_updated": "2024-08-05 09:13:35","in_antispam_previous": 1,"sha256": "be25f8b7b9fa76bdf8a2a3275f60dd7603c758598e77b332857a9867f0d6598e"}}}” style=”color:#d8dee9ff;display:none” aria-label=”Copy” class=”code-block-pro-copy-button”>
      {"data":{"we******@cl*******.org":{"frequency": 0,"submitted": "2024-08-05 09:13:35","updated": "2024-08-05 09:13:35",
"spam_rate": 0,"exists": 1,"spam_frequency_24h": 0,"appears": 0,"disposable_email": 0,
"in_antispam_updated": "2024-08-05 09:13:35","in_antispam_previous": 1,"sha256": "be25f8b7b9fa76bdf8a2a3275f60dd7603c758598e77b332857a9867f0d6598e"}}}
      • in_antispam_previous –  the previous Anti-Spam blacklist status. It can show if the record was blacklisted or not (0 – wasn’t blacklisted, 1 – was blacklisted, NULL – no change). Format: 1. API response example,
      JSON
      {"data":{"8.8.8.8":{"domains_count": 3011,"domains_list": null,"spam_rate": 1,"submitted": "2022-02-09 21:05:06",
"updated": "2024-10-11 15:25:25","frequency": 6,"in_antispam": 0,"in_security": 0,"in_antispam_previous": 1,
"in_antispam_updated": "2024-03-05 16:20:44","spam_frequency_24h": 0,"appears": 0,"network_type": "hosting",
"country": "US","sha256": "838c4c2573848f58e74332341a7ca6bc5cd86a8aec7d644137d53b4d597f10f5"}}}

      Learn more about using the Blacklists Database API in our Help.

    • How Do Our Clients Use the CleanTalk Blacklists Database

      How Do Our Clients Use the CleanTalk Blacklists Database

      This article is about how the data of the CleanTalk Blacklists Database is being used by our clients in their businesses.

      Brief description of what the CleanTalk Blacklists Database is
      The CleanTalk Anti-Spam and Security services get data of malicious actions that are being performed on the websites of our clients. IP and email addresses of the suspicious visitors are being added to the CleanTalk Blacklists Database.
      The CleanTalk Blacklists Database is being updated in real time, outdated addresses (that weren’t used for attacks for a certain period of time) are being deleted from the Database while new addresses with malicious activity spotted on several websites at once are being added to the Database.

      What are Possible Ways of Using the CleanTalk Blacklists Database of Spam IP and Email Addresses

      Based on the examples of our clients we want to demonstrate the ways of how they use our data of spam active addresses.

      Online marketing
      Owners of online businesses send their marketing offers and deals by launching their mailing campaigns. They collect their leads from their website forms after receiving completed checkouts or after getting new signups. Spammers on the other hand use website forms to send spam and they can use either lists of fake email addresses or real email addresses of random people.

      In both cases when our clients launch their marketing campaigns using these unreliable email addresses nobody gets anything good. Quantity of emails sent to fake addresses or to unaware people will increase, random people most likely mark such emails as spam or report them. Thus, there are risks for the online email campaigns to get a lot of spam reports and as a result the webservers might be blacklisted, percentage of successfully delivered emails might be lower than expected, there might be problems in delivering emails to legitimate users.

      To avoid this the mailing lists have to be checked for spam and refined from fake and spam addresses. The outcome of the mailing campaign will be much better and more precise.

      Website builders
      Website builders such as WIX.com use our data of spam active addresses for strengthening their defense from spam and malicious activity on websites of their clients. If webservers get an online request from an address that is in the CleanTalk Database then this is a good reason for verification to be made stricter.

      Enterprise networks
      To protect enterprise networks from unauthorized access and hacking. Protection for such networks usually consists of several layers of authentication and other security tools. The CleanTalk Blacklists Database of Spam IP and Email Addresses is one of the tools that helps making protection more reliable.

      Protection for mobile applications
      The CleanTalk Blacklists Database of Spam IP and Email Addresses is also being used for protection from spam signups and spam registrations in mobile applications.

      Protection for API, web applications
      In this case anti-spam checks are being performed for the addresses that call the API and if the address is blacklisted in the Database then it’s a good cause to pay a closer attention to it and take necessary measures.
      The most common ways of using our CleanTalk Blacklists Database of Spam IP and Email Addresses were mentioned in this article to help reinforce the security level of any online business. It’s possible to get access to the CleanTalk Blacklists Database with our APIs or by downloading it in files.