Spam Eating Monkey SEM-FRESH10 is a domain-based blocklist, or blacklist, that temporarily lists domains registered within the last 10 days as a preventative measure against spam from new sources.
Spam Eating Monkey SEM-FRESH10 is a real-time domain name blocklist (DNSBL) that lists domains registered within the last 10 days. It operates as a URIBL, which means it focuses on blacklisting domains found within the body of an email, not the IP address of the sender. The primary goal of this blacklist is to flag emails from brand-new domains, which are often used in spam or phishing campaigns as they have no established reputation.
Mail administrators use this blocklist to add a small penalty score to incoming emails from these new domains, rather than blocking them outright. This allows for more nuanced filtering. A listing on SEM-FRESH10 is temporary and automatic, reflecting the domain's age.
Spam Eating Monkey SEM-FRESH10 is operated by SpamEatingMonkey.com, an organization that provides real-time IP and domain reputation data to help filter unwanted email. The organization maintains several blocklists used by system administrators globally.
SpamEatingMonkey.com emphasizes that it does not block any mail itself. Instead, it provides data that mail server administrators can use in their filtering rules. As they state, "We are not blocking your mail. The administrator of the recipient server is blocking your mail." All information is provided "as is" and is intended for use in email scoring systems rather than for outright blocking of messages.
Removal from the Spam Eating Monkey SEM-FRESH10 blocklist is automatic. There is no manual delisting process or request form for this specific list.
Your domain will be automatically removed from the blacklist once it is more than 10 days old. You simply need to wait for this time period to pass. This is a policy-based listing tied directly to the registration date of your domain, so no action is required on your part.
The impact of being listed on the Spam Eating Monkey SEM-FRESH10 blocklist is generally low. Most email systems that use this data do not reject email based on this listing alone. Instead, it is used as a weighted factor in a larger scoring system.
For example, systems like SpamAssassin might add a small score (e.g., 0.5) to an email containing a domain on this list. This score contributes to the overall spam rating but is rarely enough to get an email classified as spam on its own. The impact is also temporary, as the listing only lasts for the first 10 days of the domain's life. While you may see slightly lower deliverability during this initial period, the effect is minimal and resolves itself automatically.
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