The amazing AHBL / Godaddy pissing match
Very recently, my emails to a very good client of mine began to bounce. Not too much in the way of error messages, except for an obscure code that indicated my email was somehow marked as a spam account. A little more digging on the client side shows that my Godaddy mail server is blacklisted by the Abusive Hosts Black List - AHBL. As far as I can tell right now, AHBL is the only one blacklisting GoDaddy email. Why? Well, most of the evidence points to what basically amounts to a pissing match between AHBL and GoDaddy. In the red corner: ABHL! AHBL claims that GoDaddy is hosting a website that "uses abuse, harassment, and intimidation to conduct [it's] ‘business’." They have asked GoDaddy to remove the site; GD refuses, violating their own terms of service. AHBL claims they are standing up for "a growing trend that seems to indicate GoDaddy is turning a blind eye to abuse and spam". On the flip side, AHBL states "there is nothing t...