Yandex Safebrowsing flagged my website — how removal works
CATALOG ENTRY VERIFIED 2026-09-21
Yandex Safebrowsing is a safe-browsing list maintained by a search engine and used by browsers. It drives the full-page red warnings visitors see before a site loads. It accepts website false-positive reports by email request. unflagdomain sends that request for you as part of a €49 dispatch; Yandex Safebrowsing reviews the site itself and decides on its own schedule.
| List type | search-engine safe-browsing list |
|---|---|
| Channel | Email request |
| What unflagdomain does | Sends the request for you |
| Step-by-step guide | Not yet — the general process below applies |
| Longer read | — |
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What Yandex Safebrowsing is
Yandex Safebrowsing is a safe-browsing list maintained by a search engine and used by browsers. It drives the full-page red warnings visitors see before a site loads.
What a Yandex Safebrowsing flag looks like
A full-page red interstitial in the browser and a warning label under the site in search results.
Why clean sites end up flagged here
- A hack that has since been cleaned: injected redirects, spam pages or a phishing directory the crawler saw before you removed it.
- Content the classifier reads as deceptive — fake download buttons, a login form that mimics another brand.
- A subdomain or path you do not look at (old test folders, user uploads) hosting something harmful.
How a removal request reaches Yandex Safebrowsing
This vendor accepts a website false-positive report by email at an address it publishes in its own documentation. The message must be plain text, come from an address at the affected domain or a contact the vendor can verify, and state the URL, what was found, what was removed and when.
The general procedure — clean, verify from outside, one specific request, wait for the re-check — is in the complete removal guide, with the checklist of what every request must contain.
What unflagdomain does for this vendor
When a scan shows this vendor flagging your domain, a separately written plain-text request goes out to it in the dispatch, with your address as Reply-To, so the vendor's answer lands in your inbox. If the address bounces, another working contact is looked for and the request re-sent.
This is one of 135 vendors in the catalog. A scan shows which of them flag a domain right now; the €49 dispatch covers every one that does.
Yandex Safebrowsing is a safe-browsing list maintained by a search engine and used by browsers. It drives the full-page red warnings visitors see before a site loads. A hack that has since been cleaned: injected redirects, spam pages or a phishing directory the crawler saw before you removed it. Content the classifier reads as deceptive — fake download buttons, a login form that mimics another brand.
Clean the site first and verify it from outside. Then this vendor accepts a website false-positive report by email at an address it publishes in its own documentation. The message must be plain text, come from an address at the affected domain or a contact the vendor can verify, and state the URL, what was found, what was removed and when. State the URL, what was found, what was removed and when, in plain text.
Yandex Safebrowsing states no turnaround we can quote. Across our dispatches, vendors of this type mostly answer within a week when they answer at all; some clear silently on their next crawl. In our measured dispatches, 12 of 12 flagging vendors had cleared within 15 days on one domain, and 9 of 9 within 3 days on another.
When a scan shows this vendor flagging your domain, a separately written plain-text request goes out to it in the dispatch, with your address as Reply-To, so the vendor's answer lands in your inbox. If the address bounces, another working contact is looked for and the request re-sent. We guarantee the request is sent or prepared; Yandex Safebrowsing decides the outcome.