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Cold Email Reputation Recovery & Damage Control

You've been "blacklisted." Now what? This section is the "damage control" guide. Stop all sending, identify the source of the problem (e.g., a bad list), fix it, and then very slowly re-warm your domain.

10 questions in this topic

What are signs your cold domain reputation is damaged? How do you diagnose reputation loss (Gmail Postmaster, SNDS)? What’s the first step after a domain gets blocked? Can you recover a cold domain’s reputation? How to isolate and retire toxic mailboxes? When should you register new domains? How to monitor blocklist status and remove listings? What is a “shadow ban” and how does it appear? How to test deliverability without hurting reputation? How to build long-term domain rotation logs?