Safari "Deceptive Website" warning persists after hosting migration — correct escalation path?

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Five of my sites are flagged by Safari's Deceptive Website Warning. They are legitimate and none of them collect credentials, imitate another brand or contain social engineering content:

store-api.ru — paid access to third-party AI APIs (clearly states it is not affiliated with OpenAI, Anthropic or Google)
cenwise.ru — price comparison service
kirillportfolio.ru — personal developer portfolio (no login, no forms, no data collection at all)
3021.ru — habit tracking app
animegenai.ru — AI image generation service

All five are clean in Google Safe Browsing, Google Transparency Report, Google Search Console and Yandex Webmaster. Safari is the only place showing a warning.

The flag appears to be inherited from a previous hosting provider whose IP ranges had reputation problems, and it seems attached to the domain names rather than to the current infrastructure. This is directly testable:

On 20 July 2026 all sites were migrated to a new host — a single server, single IP (152.53.119.191).
On that exact same server and IP, the domains created AFTER the migration are NOT flagged: filelama.com (live since 28 July, fully indexed), novelisstory.ru (25 July) and store-api.com (4 August).
Only the domains that already existed under the previous host are still flagged.
Same server, same IP, same certificates, same kind of content. The only variable is whether the domain existed before 20 July.

store-api.ru and store-api.com are the clearest case: both are literally the same application behind the same nginx on the same IP, differing only in the domain name. The .ru is flagged, the .com is not.

I submitted requests through websitereview.apple.com on 20 July and again on 11 August 2026. Neither produced a response or an acknowledgement, which as I understand is expected behaviour for that form.

My questions:

Is websitereview.apple.com still the correct — and only — channel for a site owner to dispute a false positive?
Is there any way to confirm that a submission was received, or a typical review timeframe I should expect?
Would a Feedback Assistant report under Safari add anything here, or would it simply duplicate the request?

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DTS Engineer OP

Apple

3h

Thanks for the post, on the error page, as you already know, you can click/tap the link to https://websitereview.apple.com/

If you believe your website has been incorrectly identified as a deceptive website, you can request that it be reviewed. The warning may be removed if we determine the issue has been corrected.

https://websitereview.apple.com/?tpl=safari&url=http%3A%2F%2Fstore-api.ru%2F&hl=en-US

For your question 1, these are the correct way to ask to be reviewed. For 2 there is a confirmation page when you submitted a website. And to answer 3 the Feedback Assistant will just let you know about the website to review.

I would like to add that is important to provide on the box actionable information as unfortunately, there is no way to confirm receipt externally. The websitereview.apple.com portal acts as a one-way submission queue and does not send automated acknowledgements or status updates, so if you do not provide any actionable item, the website will remained without changes.

Hope this helps.

Albert  WWDR