Why is my WEBSITE labeled suspicious?

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deanosurf
deanosurf Posts: 4 Spectator
edited April 23 in Managing & Using your Spectrum Account

I've had a web domain for a few years that I've never used. Went to use it today for the first time, got an email address for the first time today. homing.us

When i go to my site, it says that it is suspicious and being blocked. I've already learned how to disable security shield, but this means my customers may not be able to see my site.

How do I appeal my site being suspicious with Spectrum? Is there a way to find out if other ISPs are also blocking it?

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  • catchtwentytwo
    catchtwentytwo Posts: 144 Contributor
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    Welcome to the Forums:

    If your domain is homing.us, it looks like one Security Vendor on Virus Total flagged it as malicious.

    https://www.virustotal.com/gui/domain/homing.us

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VirusTotal

  • deanosurf
    deanosurf Posts: 4 Spectator
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    Thanks for the info C22 - love the name BTW it feels like I'm perpetually stuck in it…

    This domain has been parked in godaddy parking for several years since I bought it and hasn't even had a website associated with it.

    Any idea how I go about fixing this? I'll try and contact the company, but not at all knowledgeable on this stuff!

  • HT_Greenfield
    HT_Greenfield Posts: 718 Contributor
    edited April 23
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    homing.us is redirecting to homing.com which appears to be fine so all i can figure is that it's essentially the redirection that's being blocked as it could also be with various relevant browser settings or extensions. Furthermore, it's currently indexing fine via the Bing search engine but not Google's so, if you consider that to be any kind of a biggie, i guess you could try converting the homing.com website to a WWW sub-domain website and see what happens.

    🔗https://www.bing.com/search?q=homing.us : top result currently = homing.com

    🔗https://www.google.com/search?q=homing.us : currently nothing relevant

    🔗 https://www.hostinger.com/tutorials/how-to-redirect-non-www-urls-to-www

  • Lyn_T
    Lyn_T Posts: 396 ✅ Verified Employee Moderator
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    Good evening @deanosurf

    Thank you for reaching out to us about your website being blocked by security shield. You can dispute this block by visiting this link You will need to enter your website and follow the instructions. Please let us know if you have any other questions. - Lyn

  • deanosurf
    deanosurf Posts: 4 Spectator
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    Thanks Lyn! just submitted my request to unblock it.

  • deanosurf
    deanosurf Posts: 4 Spectator
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    can you tell me how this happens and gets blocked in the first place?

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