Spamhaus Nightmare: Domain Shut Down, No Notice, Over A Million Pages Down

I am writing this here on HN, because at the moment you cannot access our blog. Our domain name was shut down this morning, and I'm trying to get it back. Here's what happened... Our company provides tools to help people put together pages for their businesses. Our free tool has been used to create over million page tabs on Facebook. Unfortunately but predictably, sometimes bad people use our app. Like spammers. Overnight, our domain was blacklisted by Spamhaus because one of our pages contained spam. (Anybody want a free iPad?) We run our infrastructure on Heroku, and use Bluehost for domain names. Well, as soon as Bluehost recieved notice from Spamhaus, they shut off the DNS for our domain. All million plus pages, gone in the blink of a DNS propagation. Thankfully we were able to switch over to [appname].heroku.com for now and most of the pages are back, but we have paying customers wh

Kind

startup

Status

Shut down

Inventor

jpadvo

Ended

2011

Source

hackernews