https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6926

--- Comment #2 from Adam Katz <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> Which currently reveals we're missing:
> 
>     bl bq bv cw eh gb mf post sj ss sx um

Ah, now I see the comment in RegistrarBoundaries.pm:

# The following have been removed from the list because they are
# inactive, as can be seen in the Wikipedia articles about them
# as of 2008-02-08, e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.so_%28domain_name%29
#     bv gb pm sj so um yt

A quick summary of all the candidates:

bl - Saint Barthélemy (French), reserved but unassigned
bq - Carribean Netherlands, designated but not yet used
bv - Bouvet Island (Norway), reserved and sponsored but unused
cw - Curaçao, new and in use, http://www.una.cw/cw_registry/
eh - Western Sahara, no recognized government, reserved but not in use
gb - Great Britain, abandoned except ~3 hosts under .dra.hmg.gb
mf - Saint Martin (French), reserved but unassigned
post - Universal Postal Union (snail mail), new as of August
sj - Svalbard and Jan Mayen (Norway), reserved and sponsored but unused
ss - South Sudan, new and registered, still pending (nation formed 2011-07)
sx - Sint Maarten (Netherlands), new, in use (open), http://registry.sx/
um - US Minor Outlying Islands (USA), revoked (why is it listed?)

It looks like it's still valid to avoid bv gb sj and um.  We should add cw and
post and sx.  The others may be on their way, but don't need inclusion quite
yet.

Given how .sx has open registration and looks like "sex," I expect it to
attract porn sites, which means spam.  We definitely want to include that one.

You can find these on wikipedia like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.so (note
the dot, also note that the disambiguation page from 2008 is gone) and
similarly at IANA like https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/so.html

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