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# Spamhaus

A nonprofit organization that tracks spam, phishing, malware and botnets and publishes widely used blocklists of domains and IP addresses. Mail providers rely on its lists, and its data is used in studies of abuse across registrars and TLDs, so it appears often in domain industry news.

## related terms

- [blocklist](https://tldlog.com/glossary/blocklist/)
- [domain reputation](https://tldlog.com/glossary/domain-reputation/)
- [spam](https://tldlog.com/glossary/spam/)
- [SURBL](https://tldlog.com/glossary/surbl/)
- [ICANN Domain Metrica](https://tldlog.com/glossary/domain-metrica/)