Inbox Monster is part of a small group beta-testing Spamhaus’ new Domain Reputation API. Through this API, Spamhaus provides domain reputation Status along with additional Classifications should your domain reputation be poor.
Access Your Spamhaus Reputation
To access your Spamhaus reputation, log into your Inbox Monster account and, on the left menu items, select Reputation > Domains > select your domain. At the top of the next page, you will see 2 new Spamhaus tiles and a Spamhaus Reputation Trend chart.
Statuses
The reputation Spamhaus systems associate with the given domain. Values from Spamhaus and Inbox Monster's translations are as follows:
Spamhaus: Malicious = Inbox Monster: Malicious
Spamhaus: Bad = Inbox Monster: Bad
Spamhaus: Neutral = Inbox Monster: Neutral
Spamhaus: Good = Inbox Monster: Medium
Spamhaus Great = Inbox Monster: High
Dimensions
Spamhaus also provides reputation for domains across several "dimensions", each relating to a different area of focus for a domain's signals.
Per Spamhaus, the main supported dimensions are:
smtp: Reputation in the SMTP area
identity: Reputation of the identity of the domain. (Owner, registrar and more)
infra: Reputation of the infrastructure of the domain. (NS, hosts, etc.)
malware: Reputation of the domain affected by malware, bots and the distribution of such threats
human: The human reputation for a domain, accounting for operations and false positive fallouts. This dimension represents the opinion of Spamhaus researchers about the domain.
Spamhaus Scores are the value of all reputation dimensions combined. Zero is the neutral point, and the higher the positive number; the greater the positive reputation of the domain. Conversely, for "lower" negative numbers, the more negative the reputation.
Classifications
If the domain has been identified as the vector of some threat or behavior, this represents what that is. As such, the field would be missing entirely if no specific behavior or threat is associated with it. Possible values are:
Phish
Malware
Botnetcc
Snowshoe
Redirector
Adware
Sinkhole
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to communicate with us using the Intercom icon in the bottom right of your Inbox Monster account. Thank you!
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