New IPs are often old IPs that have been used for other purposes before, and often blacklisted. Especially IPs on easily spun-up and spun-down hosts like DO.

New IPs are often old IPs that have been used for other purposes before, and often blacklisted. Especially IPs on easily spun-up and spun-down hosts like DO. On DO, after every VPS I've removed, and then started up another a week later, it has a different IP. It would be easy for a spammer/phisher/whoever to abuse this quick address re-allocation, but hurts regular users.