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<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I noticed that RIPE NCC uses uceprotect-level1, uceprotect-level2 and uceprotect-level3 in RIPEStat Anti Abuse Blacklist Entries widget. <br /><br />There have been controversial positions about this blacklist recently:</p>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;">1) <a href="https://success.trendmicro.com/solution/000236583-Emails-being-rejected-by-RBL-UCEPROTECL-in-Hosted-Email-Security-and-Email-Security" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> https://success.trendmicro.com<wbr />/solution/000236583-Emails-bei<wbr />ng-rejected-by-RBL-UCEPROTECL-<wbr />in-Hosted-Email-Security-and-<wbr />Email-Security</a></div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;">2) <a href="https://blog.sucuri.net/2021/02/uceprotect-when-rbls-go-bad.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> https://blog.sucuri.net/2021/0<wbr />2/uceprotect-when-rbls-go-bad.<wbr />html</a></div>
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<div style="font-family: Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"><br />UCEPROTECT blacklists the whole range of IP addresses, including the full IP range of some autonomous systems:</div>
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<div style="font-family: Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;">UCEPROTECT states, '<em>Who is responsible for this listing? YOU ARE NOT! Your IP was NOT directly involved in abuse but has a bad neighborhood. Other customers within this range did not care about their security and got hacked, started spamming, or were even attacking others, while your provider has possibly not even noticed that there is a serious problem. We are sorry for you, but you have chosen a provider not acting fast enough on abusers'</em>) [<a id="v1m_6216008562741174618LPlnk" href="http://www.uceprotect.net/en/rblcheck.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://www.uceprotect.net/en/<wbr />rblcheck.php</a>].</div>
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<div style="font-family: Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;">It asks for a fee if some individual IP address wants to be whitelisted (<a id="v1m_6216008562741174618LPlnk" href="http://www.whitelisted.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://www.whitelisted.org/</a>),</div>
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<div style="font-family: Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;">It abuses people who decide to challenge their blacklist by publishing conversations in their so-called <em>Cart00ney</em> (<a id="v1m_6216008562741174618LPlnk" href="http://www.uceprotect.net/en/index.php?m=8&s=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://www.uceprotect.net/en/<wbr />index.php?m=8&s=0</a>; <a id="v1m_6216008562741174618LPlnk" href="http://www.uceprotect.org/cart00neys/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://www.uceprotect.org/<wbr />cart00neys/index.html</a>).</div>
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<div style="font-family: Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;">And the other type of threatening: <a href="http://www.uceprotect.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://www.uceprotect.org/</a></div>
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<div style="font-family: Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;">Does RIPE NCC have any position on this specific blacklist?<br /><br />Thank you!</div>
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