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Google Postmaster Tools retired the reputation dashboards

Why did Google Postmaster Tools remove domain and IP reputation?

Global · Gmail

In one sentence

Google removed the colour badges in Postmaster — , auth, and delivery errors still matter.

Emailrules interpretation

Google retired the red/yellow/green domain and charts because most senders could not act on them. rate, authentication results, and delivery error data remain. Stop chasing a colour; watch the numbers that still exist.

Why it matters. If your weekly ops deck still says “Postmaster green,” update the process before leadership thinks the world ended.

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What to do

Your move — not a lecture

Good to know — nothing to fix

Changes a number you report or a risk you carry, not today's task list.

Nothing to do. This changes what you can see and what you can report, not what you should be doing.

Your part: Finding a replacement number if you used to quote colour to a client or a boss. It is rate, and it always should have been.

What to do first

Take "" out of your reporting template before somebody asks you why the cell is empty.

You can skip this if: You never opened Postmaster Tools in the first place.

Who this applies to

Anyone who used the colour bands to diagnose .

Checklist

  • 01Move your alerting onto rate, which is the number Google actually enforces on.
  • 02Stop quoting colour to clients. The band no longer exists.
  • 03If you need a trend rather than a snapshot, record daily yourself. Postmaster's own window is short.

That’s enough to act. The exact wording, the enforcement record and the primary source sit under Proof & sources, for counsel, bosses, or AI tools that need a citation. Not legal advice.

Proof

Exact position, enforcement, sources

For records and people who will check you. Skip if Monday’s move is already clear.

Source fact

Postmaster Tools v2 removed the domain and dashboards. Google's stated reason is that reputation data is not easily actionable for most senders. , authentication results and delivery errors remain.

What happens if you do not

Not an obligation, but it changes what you can prove. It is also a quiet admission from the enforcing party that the actionable layer was missing, which is worth remembering when a vendor sells you a score.

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