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About vspam.org

vspam.org is an operator-grade phishing and abuse reputation platform built for mail operators, sysadmins, and security researchers. We combine deterministic enrichment, historical evidence, reporter reputation, and community review to publish domain, IPv6, IPv4, ASN, and email intelligence.

Our mission is to make phishing infrastructure visible and actionable without turning community voting into the sole source of truth. Threat data remains free for non-commercial use by researchers, sysadmins, and open-source projects. Commercial use requires a license.

How it works

01

Normalize

URL submissions are collapsed to canonical domains at ingest, while exact IPv4 and IPv6 host reports keep infrastructure precision.

02

Enrich & Score

DNS, WHOIS, hosting, brand, redirect, ASN, and history signals feed a deterministic scoring model with explicit confidence and reasons.

03

Review & Delist

Reporter trust, community voting, and delist workflows help catch novel abuse while reducing false positives and bad listings.

04

Publish

High-confidence domains and exact hosts are published for blocking, while IPv6 prefix and ASN outputs are exposed as watch or reputation feeds.

Platform overview

Domain-first
Phishing ingest
IPv6-first
Host and prefix context
ASN-aware
Provider reputation
AGPL-3
Open source core

Trust Tiers

Reporter trust is earned through consistent, accurate submissions. Higher tiers carry more weight in review workflows and receive higher API rate limits, but feeds and blocking recommendations are not based on votes alone.

TierVote weightRequirementsPerks
NewAccount createdSubmit reports, cast votes
Contributor50+ confirmed reportsAPI access, CSV export
VerifiedOrg email + 200+ reportsSTIX export, bulk submit
TrustedInvite-only, vetted operatorsUnlimited API, DNSBL zone access

Sponsors

vspam.org is funded by organizations that share our commitment to a safer email ecosystem. Infrastructure costs are covered by sponsors; the data remains free for all.

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Get involved

vspam.org is open source (AGPL-3.0). Contributions, bug reports, and feature requests are welcome on GitHub. Threat data remains available for public and non-commercial use.