Xfinity silently blocks lots of new domains

ddschwartz18 about 8 hours ago 3 comments

We built a site for a launch and it was unreachable for anyone on an Xfinity router. We only found out because we have an Xfinity router at home. There's no notice to the site owner.

Xfinity's Advanced Security draws on third-party domain reputation lists and blocks at the gateway. We found out a blacklist called SURBL had flagged us. Not sure exactly what tripped it. Since then I've hit the same block on 10+ unrelated sites and told the site owner. Now sharing with everyone here.

How to check whether it's happening to you:

https://spa.xfinity.com/check_url_status If blocked, look for the upstream list: https://mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.aspx Report at https://spa.xfinity.com/report and call them nonstop (reviews take ~3 business days) and get off the upstream list too.

Trying to help get this out there so it happens to less people who are launching products.

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gigisfndr•about 5 hours ago

Most useful thanks! I found 3/5 of my sites blocked including my startup website. However on adding www to the url they were reported as not blocked. I requested a review on the non www urls anyway . Shared on my X for what its worth ( small account )

nateb2022•about 7 hours ago

Interesting, it blocks 3 out of my 4 domains. One of the blocked ones is over a year old.

2 (1 blocked, 1 not) use Cloudflare for DNS. The other 2 use porkbun.

dschwartz18•about 7 hours ago

Yeah really annoying and you just don't know if you aren't on an xfinity router