Did a bit more investigating. Plugin is definitely broken using isTempMail API. Evidently when first coded the public api was free and did not require an api key.
{"error":"no_token","error_description":"Please add API token to your request."}
I am a freak and do not code Javascript. Given that, I do not grok anywhere in this code that generates an opportunity to provide one:
https://github.com/Annihil/nodebb-plugin-email-blacklist/blob/master/library.js
Query url needs to look like this:
https://www.istempmail.com/api/check/YOUR-isTempMail-API-KEY/example.com (or can also handle full [email protected]).
Update: I can confirm the URL string above works via manual submission, but not via simple edit of nodebb-plugin-email-blaclist/library.js's isTempMail function's path.