# Aftermath of spam attack! Need help with releasing IPs, and mass-blocking of profiles of a domain

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**Created:** [November 13, 2024, 2:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/aftermath-of-spam-attack-need-help-with-releasing-ips-and-mass-blocking-of-profiles-of-a-domain/335969 "2024-11-13T14:59:11Z")\
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I blocked many IPs after a massive spam attack. Now some people with genuine accounts aren’t able to login. It says “You can’t login with that IP”. How do I correct this?

Also, do blocked IPs get released after a few days? In my previous forum, I had configured it to 14 days.

And I have a few domains to the blocked list, that was responsible for many spammer profiles. So new registrations under these domains won’t be possible. But a quick domain search under _Users_ returned many dormant profiles using that domain. Anyway I can mass-flush these profiles that belong to the blocked domain?

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