Remember the shills posting malicious links? Well, ISPs often scan the outbound URLs on sites to determine the overall reputation of the parent site. If a bad actor spammed a bunch of malicious links on our site and then reported our site to one of these reputation sites with the “new” link (https://thedonald.win/new), I bet they could tarnish the reputation of our site. The amount of overall reputation influence would depend on each algorithm / site.
Currently, we have a clean bill of health but it’s important to run this frequently because results change.
Remember the shills posting malicious links? Well, ISPs often scan the outbound URLs on sites to determine the overall reputation of the parent site. If a bad actor spammed a bunch of malicious links on our site and then reported our site to one of these reputation sites with the “new” link (https://thedonald.win/new), I bet they could tarnish the reputation of our site. The amount of overall reputation influence would depend on each algorithm / site.
Currently, we have a clean bill of health but it’s important to run this frequently because results change.
The Top Level Domain (TLD) of “dot win” used to have a lot of suspicious sites - it was #8 in 2018 (See https://integracon.com/suspicious-top-level-domains-what-you-should-know/). Currently it is a much better score but still a high percentage with 19.9% bad: https://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/tlds/
Another high correlation with malware are sites that are hosted on recently registered domain names. Our site should be old enough to not get dinged by that metric but it’s up to the algorithm on the date they use and the weight - e.g. Palo Alto Networks uses 32 days (https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/pan-os/9-0/pan-os-new-features/content-inspection-features/url-filtering-security-categories.html).
TLDR: There could be legit technical reasons behind blocking links. Everything I look at currently gives us a good bill of health.