Yes, they have issues with IPs having been blacklisted.
I ran into that in connection with MIPSpace. Large swathes of DO IPs are blacklisted by MIPSpace, which impacts my deliverability for a small double opt-in hobby list.
- Digital Ocean says they can't get MIPSpace to remove IPs.
- MIPSpace will only deal with me if I can get DO to add rwhois/SWIP for my IP
- Digital Ocean doesn't offer that feature (of course).
So I'm somewhat stuck there. Not as though things are going to be any better elsewhere on another cloud service, I suppose, though I never had these issues at AWS. But moving back would triple the cost of running an equivalent mail server.
Hopefully some of the funding here can be used by DO to actually clean up their IPs and manage the issues with the less reasonable blacklists like MIPSpace - who doesn't send abuse notices, and seems pretty capricious, from what I'm reading. Since DO are in the business of renting IP addresses, it would be good if those IP addresses were not usually on some blacklist somewhere.
MIPSpace is stupid if they think you can get SWIP from DO. This is not DO's policy, but the RIR. I seem to remember that for ARIN you need a /30 or larger of consecutive IP address space to qualify for SWIP. This may even be a /28.
So while DO is saying no, I'm wondering if it's because they don't offer the space required to SWIP the ranges. In addition to not offering the size, it would incur additional administrative overhead.
According to https://www.arin.net/resources/request/reassignments.html it's actually mandatory to provide whois tracking for assignments /29 or shorter prefix, and optional for /30 or longer prefix. I can't find any reason they wouldn't be able to provide it if they wanted to.
I ran into that in connection with MIPSpace. Large swathes of DO IPs are blacklisted by MIPSpace, which impacts my deliverability for a small double opt-in hobby list.
- Digital Ocean says they can't get MIPSpace to remove IPs.
- MIPSpace will only deal with me if I can get DO to add rwhois/SWIP for my IP
- Digital Ocean doesn't offer that feature (of course).
So I'm somewhat stuck there. Not as though things are going to be any better elsewhere on another cloud service, I suppose, though I never had these issues at AWS. But moving back would triple the cost of running an equivalent mail server.
Hopefully some of the funding here can be used by DO to actually clean up their IPs and manage the issues with the less reasonable blacklists like MIPSpace - who doesn't send abuse notices, and seems pretty capricious, from what I'm reading. Since DO are in the business of renting IP addresses, it would be good if those IP addresses were not usually on some blacklist somewhere.