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Letter of exclusive use of IP Addresses for my DO Servers

Posted on July 30, 2013

As an Email Service Provider I am considering warming up some email servers on Digital Ocean. The only problem I have is that as part of the Microsoft Junk Email Reporting program I am required to provide a letter of exclusive use for any IP for which I am not the registered owner.

Can Digital Ocean provide this to me?

Thanks.



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The answer from support is, “No, they will not provide a letter of exclusive use for an IP because if I destroy the droplet the IP is no longer exclusive use.”. I understand this and explained how it is in my best interests to remove those IP’s from my account with Microsoft’s Junk Email Program if a were to the destroy the droplet in order to keep my own reputation from suffering due to the next owner of that IP. I fail to comprehend Digital Ocean’s stance - if they say, “As of x/x/xx our customer so and so has exclusive use of this IP.” - This is good enough for MS. How is this a problem? When they write the letter it is a true statement. If I destroy the droplet tomorrow it doesn’t make it any less true than the day they provided the letter. <br> <br>Oh well…I tried.

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