Domain Name System blocklist

Quality:

DNSBL - method to block host for e-mail spam. Article “Domain Name System blocklist” in English Wikipedia has 42.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 30 references and 15 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.24 points.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Domain Name System blocklist”, its content was written by 223 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 460 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 145 times in English Wikipedia and cited 300 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

Local (English): #4799 in September 2003
Global: #11426 in December 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

Local (English): #32440 in March 2008
Global: #41809 in March 2008

There are 14 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

Languages with the highest quality

#	Language	Quality score
1	English (en) Domain Name System blocklist	42.517
2	Dutch (nl) DNSBL	27.6945
3	Arabic (ar) قائمة حظر نظام أسماء النطاقات	25.7451
4	Spanish (es) Lista negra basada en DNS	22.0628
5	Japanese (ja) DNSBL	19.2696
6	French (fr) DNS Black Listing	14.8128
7	Korean (ko) 도메인 이름 서비스 기반 블랙홀 목록	12.1015
8	German (de) DNS-based Blackhole List	9.5674
9	Italian (it) DNSBL	8.9696
10	Russian (ru) DNSBL	6.8283

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Domain Name System blocklist" in all the time

#	Language	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Domain Name System blocklist	1 618 949
2	German (de) DNS-based Blackhole List	277 066
3	Russian (ru) DNSBL	200 882
4	Japanese (ja) DNSBL	110 819
5	Italian (it) DNSBL	51 590
6	French (fr) DNS Black Listing	47 641
7	Polish (pl) DNSBL	28 429
8	Dutch (nl) DNSBL	23 001
9	Finnish (fi) Musta lista (sähköposti)	12 352
10	Czech (cs) DNSBL	10 949

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2026

The most popular language versions of the article "Domain Name System blocklist" in June 2026

#	Language	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Domain Name System blocklist	2 069
2	German (de) DNS-based Blackhole List	179
3	French (fr) DNS Black Listing	105
4	Russian (ru) DNSBL	100
5	Japanese (ja) DNSBL	79
6	Italian (it) DNSBL	58
7	Spanish (es) Lista negra basada en DNS	30
8	Polish (pl) DNSBL	26
9	Czech (cs) DNSBL	17
10	Dutch (nl) DNSBL	8

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Domain Name System blocklist" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	Relative AI
1	English (en) Domain Name System blocklist	223
2	German (de) DNS-based Blackhole List	63
3	Russian (ru) DNSBL	39
4	Italian (it) DNSBL	28
5	French (fr) DNS Black Listing	24
6	Dutch (nl) DNSBL	21
7	Polish (pl) DNSBL	14
8	Finnish (fi) Musta lista (sähköposti)	12
9	Spanish (es) Lista negra basada en DNS	9
10	Japanese (ja) DNSBL	9

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2026

Language versions of the article "Domain Name System blocklist" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) قائمة حظر نظام أسماء النطاقات	2
2	Czech (cs) DNSBL	0
3	German (de) DNS-based Blackhole List	0
4	English (en) Domain Name System blocklist	0
5	Spanish (es) Lista negra basada en DNS	0
6	Finnish (fi) Musta lista (sähköposti)	0
7	French (fr) DNS Black Listing	0
8	Italian (it) DNSBL	0
9	Japanese (ja) DNSBL	0
10	Korean (ko) 도메인 이름 서비스 기반 블랙홀 목록	0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Domain Name System blocklist" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	Relative CI
1	English (en) Domain Name System blocklist	145
2	French (fr) DNS Black Listing	63
3	German (de) DNS-based Blackhole List	21
4	Japanese (ja) DNSBL	17
5	Russian (ru) DNSBL	16
6	Italian (it) DNSBL	8
7	Dutch (nl) DNSBL	7
8	Ukrainian (uk) DNSBL	6
9	Korean (ko) 도메인 이름 서비스 기반 블랙홀 목록	5
10	Czech (cs) DNSBL	4

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic قائمة حظر نظام أسماء النطاقات
cs	Czech DNSBL
de	German DNS-based Blackhole List
en	English Domain Name System blocklist
es	Spanish Lista negra basada en DNS
fi	Finnish Musta lista (sähköposti)
fr	French DNS Black Listing
it	Italian DNSBL
ja	Japanese DNSBL
ko	Korean 도메인 이름 서비스 기반 블랙홀 목록
nl	Dutch DNSBL
pl	Polish DNSBL
ru	Russian DNSBL
uk	Ukrainian DNSBL

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank	English: #32440 03.2008	Global: #41809 03.2008

AI rank trends

Best Rank	English: #4799 09.2003	Global: #11426 12.2002

Local AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2025 – June 2026)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on DNSBL from Wikipedia articles about Example.com, List of DNS record types, Hosts file, Domain Name Server and DNS rebinding. Whereas reading the article about DNSBL people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Spam and Open Relay Blocking System, Domain Name Server, Message transfer agent, The Abusive Hosts Blocking List and Honeypot.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

en: Domain Name System blocklist

de: DNS-based Blackhole List

ru: DNSBL

ja: DNSBL

it: DNSBL

fr: DNS Black Listing

pl: DNSBL

nl: DNSBL

fi: Musta lista (sähköposti)

cs: DNSBL

ko: 도메인 이름 서비스 기반 블랙홀 목록

es: Lista negra basada en DNS

uk: DNSBL

ar: قائمة حظر نظام أسماء النطاقات

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