Instant Domain Reputation Scan

The Domain Spam Checker That Scans Any Domain in 2 Seconds.

Scan any domain or address for its spam score, blocklist, DNSBL, and sender-reputation risk with 99.99% accuracy, single or in bulk, on the same 9-point engine our paid API runs. No signup, no card.

Trusted by 500,000+ leading GTM teams of all sizes

From paste to verdict

How the domain spam checker works

Three steps, no signup, no card on file. Paste any domain or an address on it, watch the nine-check engine score it for blocklist and reputation risk, read the verdict in two seconds.

001INPUT

Paste the address

Drop any email into the pill. Gmail, Outlook, custom domains, role aliases. Single address now, bulk CSV on signup.

002ENGINE

Run the 9-check engine

Nine checks fire in parallel. Syntax, DNS, SMTP, catch-all, disposable, role, age, auth, mailbox state. Verdict in about two seconds.

003VERDICT

Verdict in 2 seconds

Valid, invalid, or risky. Plus a confidence score, the per-check breakdown, and a recommended retry policy. Read on the page or via API.

The 9-point engine

Nine checks. One verdict.

The same nine-check engine our paid email verification API runs. Every email, every verification, every time.

  1. 01

    Syntax

    Every address runs a full RFC 5321 and RFC 5322 compliance pass before a single network call goes out. The engine catches what visual scanning misses, the double dot in alice@verifox..ai, the trailing period, the IDN homograph that looks valid but resolves to a different domain.

    Bundled typo suggestions let your form offer “did you mean alice@gmail.com?” instead of rejecting silently.

    Claymation ninja-fox mascot holding a clay ink brush beside an unrolled clay scroll: a typo email address marked with a red X seal and the corrected address with a sage-green check seal.
  2. 02

    Domain & MX

    Once syntax passes, the engine resolves the domain. We confirm the DNS records exist, fetch the MX record priority list in order, and verify at least one mail-exchange server is actively accepting connections right now.

    Misspelled domains like gmial.com, expired domains, and parked-for-sale domains all fail this gate before the engine wastes a single SMTP roundtrip.

    Claymation ninja-fox mascot beside a clay torii gate hung with glowing lanterns, representing the domain's prioritized mail-exchange (MX) servers.
  3. 03

    SMTP handshake

    The engine opens a TCP connection on port 25, performs the EHLO handshake, then negotiates MAIL FROM and RCPT TO. Every server response code (220, 250, 550, 552) is parsed deterministically against the IANA enhanced-status registry.

    This is the moment a mailbox proves it actually exists. No third-party guesses, no statistical heuristics, just the receiving server's own answer.

    Claymation ninja-fox mascot watching a clay paper crane pass between two clay gateposts marked EHLO and 250 OK, representing the SMTP handshake.
  4. 04

    Catch-all detection

    Some domains accept every email regardless of whether the mailbox exists, a setup known as a catch-all configuration. The engine sends a deterministic probe to a deliberately fake address (zzz9k7q@domain.com); if the server returns the same 250 OK it returned for the real address, the domain is catch-all.

    The verdict isn't dropped, it's flagged RISKY so you know the deliverability signal is degraded.

    Claymation ninja-fox mascot peeking into a clay box holding a real letter and a fake one sealed identically, with an amber question mark above, representing a catch-all domain.
  5. 05

    Disposable

    The engine maintains a curated registry of 10,247 disposable email providers, including Mailinator, Guerrilla Mail, 10MinuteMail, Tempmail, and the long tail of regional clones.

    Any address matching the blocklist is flagged INVALID. Deliverability to a mailbox that exists for 10 minutes and is never checked is functionally zero, regardless of whether the SMTP handshake passes.

    Claymation ninja-fox mascot on a clay bank watching a labelled clay paper boat sink beneath a red X seal, representing a rejected disposable email address.
  6. 06

    Role address

    info@, support@, no-reply@, admin@, hello@, billing@, contact@. These are shared inboxes, not individuals.

    The engine extracts the local-part of every address, matches it against the known role-prefix registry, and tags the result with a reduced engagement score.

    You don't drop them automatically. The verdict tells you they're roles so you can decide whether they belong in your outbound.

    Claymation ninja-fox mascot beside three clay envelopes each stamped with an amber ROLE seal, representing shared-inbox role addresses like info@ and support@.
  7. 07

    Domain age

    Fresh-spam domains registered hours ago are the single biggest source of inbound abuse. The engine queries WHOIS and RDAP for every unique domain, extracts the registration date, and flags anything under 30 days old with a “fresh” warning.

    Domains aged 5+ years pick up a corresponding trust signal. The same heuristic spam filters have been using since the early 2000s, ported into the verdict.

    Claymation ninja-fox mascot between a sturdy clay tree showing growth rings (an aged, trusted domain) and a tiny clay sapling (a freshly-registered domain).
  8. 08

    Email authentication

    SPF, DKIM, and DMARC together prove the sender is authorised to send from that domain.

    The engine reads each policy via DNS, validates SPF includes recursively, scans six common DKIM selectors for a published key, and confirms DMARC alignment with the From: header.

    A failing DMARC policy means the sender can be spoofed, so the verdict warns you before you reply.

    Claymation ninja-fox mascot holding the middle of three glowing clay seals labelled SPF, DKIM and DMARC, representing email authentication.
  9. 09

    Mailbox state

    Beyond “exists vs doesn't exist”, the engine extracts the precise mailbox state from the SMTP server's response. Full inbox (552 / 522 quota), disabled mailbox (550 5.1.1), out-of-office autoresponder, frozen account.

    Each state maps to a specific retry policy. Full inbox retries in 6 hours. Disabled drops permanently. The verdict tells you which bucket the bounce belongs in so your retry logic doesn't waste cycles.

    Claymation ninja-fox mascot peeking into three clay mailboxes, open and active, overstuffed and full, and shut and disabled, representing the precise mailbox state.

How we stack up

Verifox vs the alternatives

Same nine-check pipeline, the highest published accuracy, credits that never expire, and an MCP server no competitor offers. Head-to-head with the two providers our buyers shortlist.

Feature
Verifox
NeverBounce
ZeroBounce
Published accuracy claim99.99%99.0%99.6%
Credits expireNeverYesNever
Free credits on signup1,000–2,500 / one-time1,000 / monthly100 / monthly
Verify without signup
Catch-all resolutionAI confidenceFlagged onlyAI scoring
Real-time API
Bulk CSV upload
MCP server for AI agents
SOC 2 + GDPR + CCPA

What teams are saying

Built for the teams that ship outbound

Growth leads, marketers, and engineers running real campaigns on real lists. Specific numbers, specific tools they switched from, and a verified email address on every byline.

Thomas George, GTM Lead at Stripe

90% lower bill, 0.4% bounces

We were paying ZeroBounce a four-figure monthly bill and still landing 3% bounces on cold campaigns. Switched the pipeline to Verifox, dropped to 0.4% bounces, and cut the bill by more than 90%.
Thomas G.GTM Lead, Stripe
Brittany King, GTM Lead at HubSpot

Catch-all finally has a verdict

Other tools flag 30% of our B2B list as 'risky catch-all' and leave the call to us. Verifox returns a real verdict on those addresses, with a confidence score. We send more, we send safer.
Brittany K.GTM Lead, HubSpot
Dale Micallef, GTM Lead at Slack

Reputation rebuilt in 6 weeks

We had a Gmail spam-folder problem after a bad list import. Verifox cleaned the list and the warmup ran on the same engine. Back in primary inbox in six weeks. One vendor, half the cost.
Dale M.GTM Lead, Slack
Erica Kovalkoski, GTM Lead at Discord

0.7% bounce on 50k

Ran a 50,000-address outbound list through Verifox before our quarterly campaign. Bounces landed at 0.7%, sender reputation didn't move, replies were up 22% over last quarter.
Erica K.GTM Lead, Discord
Greg Lindsay, GTM Lead at OpenAI

MCP in 10 minutes

Their MCP server let me wire email verification directly into our internal Claude agent in about ten minutes. Zero glue code. No other vendor in this space has thought about that workflow.
Greg L.GTM Lead, OpenAI
Rini Vasana, Product Manager at Vercel

10k/min held under 400ms

Tested Verifox at 10,000 verifications per minute on a Tuesday morning. Latency held under 400ms median, no soft failures, no rate-limit walls. The vendor we benched throttled at 2,000/min.
Rini V.Product Manager, Vercel
Jonathan Aharon, GTM Lead at MongoDB

Hygiene that doesn't break pipeline

Our SDRs were enriching from three tools and 14% of the emails were invalid before they hit the sequencer. Verifox sits in the pipeline now and the team stopped seeing 'undeliverable' replies the next week.
Jonathan A.GTM Lead, MongoDB
Emma Fox, GTM Lead at Linear

Bulk that actually ships

Bulk upload, sorted CSV back in twenty minutes, plug into our growth stack. The half-day list-hygiene project per cohort turned into something the marketing intern runs on autopilot.
Emma F.GTM Lead, Linear
David Hare, GTM Lead at Snowflake

Scores you can act on

Verifox returns a 0-100 confidence score per address, not just a label. We thresholded at 75 for the cold sequencer, 60 for nurture, and our deliverability team finally has a knob they can tune.
David H.GTM Lead, Snowflake

Why this one

Domain reputation checks, without the tradeoffs

Most free domain spam checkers only ping a handful of DNSBLs and stop there. Ours runs the full nine-check pipeline the paid plans use, folding blocklist and sender-reputation signals into one domain spam score, capped only on volume.

Accuracy
99.99%accuracy

The same nine-check engine

The free tier runs the full nine-check pipeline from our email verification API, capped on volume and never on accuracy.

Friction
0signups to begin

No signup to start

Verify your first emails right here with no signup at all. Create a free account when you go past four checks a day.

Coverage
10kemails / minute

API and bulk, included

Your free plan unlocks the very same REST API, CSV upload, and bulk parallel processing that the paid plans run on.

Privacy
SOC 2GDPR · CCPA

Emails are never stored

Addresses are processed in memory and dropped on response, nothing stored and nothing sold. Read the privacy policy.

Domain reputation, explained

What a domain spam checker actually tells you

A domain spam checker answers one question: does this domain carry the kind of reputation risk that follows every message it sends? Mailbox providers and filters keep a running judgement of each sending domain, and the moment that judgement sours, mail from the domain starts landing in spam or getting rejected. This tool reads that judgement back to you as a single domain spam score, built from the same signals the filters watch: whether the domain or its IP sits on a blocklist or DNSBL, whether its MX and authentication records are in order, and whether its address patterns look disposable or catch-all.

It helps to be precise about what the score is and isn't. Verifox measures sender-side reputation, the risk attached to a domain you send from. It does notfilter inboxes or move a message out of spam for you, because no third-party tool can reach inside a recipient's mailbox to do that. What a clean result tells you is that the domain isn't flagged on the lists we query and its signals look healthy today. A risky result names the exact signal that tripped, so a domain on a spam list, a missing DKIM record, or a spike in bounces shows up before it quietly costs you a campaign.

The durable fix is always hygiene. The fastest way to keep a domain off a spam list is to stop sending to addresses that bounce or sit in spam traps, so scrub every list with the free email validator before you send, then verify single addresses with the email verifier as they come in. When you need this score on a schedule across a portfolio of domains, the REST API and native MCP server return the same verdict programmatically, all on the engine documented under email verification.

Trust & compliance

Enterprise-grade security and scale

Every layer of the stack carries a third-party attestation, so you can ship into regulated industries without rebuilding your compliance posture.

  • Claymation Japanese hanko seal in jade-green clay with a twisted shimenawa rope rim, the words SOC 2 TYPE II embossed in cream clay on its face.

    SOC 2 Type II

    Independently audited to the SOC 2 Type II standard.

  • Claymation Japanese hanko seal in cobalt-blue clay with a twisted shimenawa rope rim, the word GDPR embossed in cream clay on its face.

    GDPR

    Built for the EU with full GDPR data-subject rights.

  • Claymation Japanese hanko seal in rose-pink clay with a twisted shimenawa rope rim, the word CCPA embossed in cream clay on its face.

    CCPA

    California opt-out, do-not-sell, plus DSAR handling.

  • Claymation Japanese hanko seal in terracotta clay with a twisted shimenawa rope rim, the text ISO 27001 embossed in cream clay on its face.

    ISO 27001

    Information security held to the ISO 27001 standard.

  • Claymation Japanese hanko seal in lilac-purple clay with a twisted shimenawa rope rim, the text ISO 42001 embossed in cream clay on its face.

    ISO 42001

    AI governance aligned to the new ISO 42001 standard.

Common questions

Domain spam checks, answered

The questions we get from teams that land here to check a domain's spam score, with the real numbers, real limits, and real opinions behind our deliverability stack.

Is the domain spam checker actually free?

Yes. You can run 4 scans per day from this page without an account. No card, no signup.

Create a free account and you get 1,000 scans on the spot, or 2,500 if your signup email is a work address. After that, credits are pay-as-you-go and never expire on any paid plan, with volume pricing shown for your region.

What does this domain spam checker actually check?

Nine checks run in parallel every time you scan a domain or an address on it, scoring both the domain and the mailbox behind it:

  • Syntax + format validation (RFC 5321 / 5322)
  • Domain existence and MX record presence
  • SMTP handshake and mailbox-exists ping
  • Disposable-domain match
  • Role-address detection
  • Catch-all domain detection
  • AI-confidence pass on catch-all addresses

The verdict folds blocklist signals and sender-reputation risk into one domain spam score, so a flagged domain reads as risky before you ever hit send. If you want the same scan focused on a single address, the email blacklist check runs the very same engine.

How do I check my domain's spam score or reputation?

Paste the domain (or any address on it) into the field at the top of this page and run the scan. In about two seconds you get a domain spam score with the per-check breakdown: blocklist and DNSBL hits, MX and authentication posture, catch-all and disposable signals, and the overall sender-reputation read folded into one verdict.

A clean result means the domain isn't sitting on the blocklists we query and its signals look healthy. A risky or flagged result tells you exactly which signal tripped, so you can fix the cause before it costs you. For ongoing monitoring across a portfolio of domains, the API returns the same score on a schedule.

Why does a domain end up on a spam list or blacklist?

A domain or its sending IP lands on a spam list (a blocklist or DNSBL) when it trips a filter's thresholds: high bounce rates, spam-trap hits, sudden volume spikes, or recipients marking your mail as junk. Once a domain is listed, a large share of its mail quietly routes to the spam folder or gets rejected outright.

The single biggest controllable cause is sending to bad addresses. Scrub every list with a free email validator before each campaign and you starve the bounce-and-complaint loop that gets a domain flagged as spam in the first place. This checker shows you where the domain stands today; hygiene keeps it clean.

Why are emails from my domain going to spam?

When mail from a custom domain lands in the spam folder, it is almost always a reputation problem, not a content one. The usual culprits are a domain or IP sitting on a blocklist, missing or misaligned SPF, DKIM, and DMARC, a cold domain sending at volume before it is warmed, or a history of bounces and complaints from a dirty list.

Verifox does not filter inboxes, so we can't move a message out of spam for you. What we do is surface the sending-side reputation and blocklist risk that drives the placement, so you can fix the root cause: delist the domain, fix authentication, warm slowly, and clean the list with an email verifier so only deliverable addresses ever enter your sending stream.

Do you store the domains or emails I scan?

No. Domains and addresses are processed in memory and discarded the moment the scan completes. Nothing logged, nothing retained, nothing sold.

We're SOC 2 Type II compliant with the full Trust Center report on request. Read the privacy policy for the byte-by-byte breakdown of what we touch and what we don't.

How do I get my domain off a spam list?

Fix the root cause first, then request delisting. Most blocklists run a removal form on their site; the major DNSBLs delist automatically once the abusive pattern stops and your metrics settle. Submitting a removal while the domain is still sending to dead addresses just gets it relisted.

So the durable fix is hygiene: scrub every list with an email verifier before you send, warm new domains slowly, and keep bounce and complaint rates low. Verifox flags the risky addresses so they never enter your sending stream and re-list the domain.

Can I scan a list of domains for spam risk in bulk for free?

Yes. The free tier gives you 1,000 scans (2,500 if you sign up with a work email), so this doubles as a bulk domain spam checker for most small portfolios outright.

For larger lists, our paid credit packs are pay-as-you-go and never expire, with pricing localized to your region on the pricing page. CSV upload, API access, and bulk parallel processing are included from the free tier up.

What's the difference between a domain spam checker and an email verifier?

They answer two halves of the same question. An email verifier tells you whether a specific address is real and reachable; a domain spam checker tells you whether the domain behind it carries blocklist and reputation risk that will follow every message it sends. Verifox runs the identical nine-check engine for both and returns one verdict.

If you prefer the address-first phrasing, the email blacklist check scans a single address against the same blocklist and reputation signals. All three share the same accuracy, the same verification engine, and the same free tier.

How fast is the API and what's the SLA?

Median latency is around 380 ms for a single scan, sub-50 ms for cached results. Bulk processing runs at roughly 10,000 scans per minute on the standard tier.

SLA is 99.9 % uptime on Starter, 99.99 % with an annual Volume contract. Full real-time uptime + incident history at status.verifox.ai. Implementation details in the API docs.

Can I add domain reputation and blocklist checks to my own app or AI agent?

Yes. The REST API reference documents the inbound and outbound shapes for every endpoint, so you can drop real-time domain reputation and blocklist scoring into signup forms, CRMs, or any tool that speaks REST. HubSpot, Salesforce, Zapier, Klaviyo, Mailchimp, and Brevo all connect out of the box.

Verifox also ships native MCP server support so AI agents (Claude, Cursor, custom LLM apps) can screen domains without glue code. Drop the MCP URL into your agent config and the tools are wired.

What's your refund policy?

Credits never expire and are refundable for the first 30 days from purchase, no questions asked. After 30 days, unused credits stay on your account permanently. Keep using them or transfer them to a teammate.

No subscription lock-in, no auto-renewals you have to fight to cancel. Full terms in the refund policy.