From their web site: WHITELISTING IS RECOMMENDED FOR IP
217.182.79.147. Registration is available for 1 Month (25 CHF), 6
Month (50 CHF), 12 Month (70 CHF), 24 Month (90 CHF) . So yes,
perhaps it's not extortion. We may call it demanding money with
menaces, exaction, extraction, blackmail...
Lot's of things in life require payment(s), or purchase of addon
equipment, depending on your circumstances in life, your living
arrangements, or your location. If you are in a high-crime area your
mortgage insurance will probably require you to purchase an alarm, or
if your home is prone to house fires, a smoke detector. Then there
are taxes, fees, licenses, etc. Life is self is pay-to-play, whether
you realize it or not.
Yeah, and when they'll need more beer they can just update their
formula so as to blacklist a whole AS on the first spam, or maybe the
whole RIR.
That's a fair point, there's no reason to not question their motives. I
just personally don't see that it's a profit center for them.
Just do the math. They blocked at least 100K IPs, because 1% of these IPs
sent spam in the last 7 days. If 0.5% of those 100K IPs decide to
subscribe to their whitelist, that's at least 50000 CHF / 24 months.
Which is I guess a rather comfortable income that largely exceeds their
costs.
Also, they seem to ignore that, while it is feasible for ISPs to eradicate
spam on their network, it is impossible for server providers to do this:
"If big providers like DTAG and Microsoft can so effectively prevent that
their customers are sending spam, why can your provider not also do so?
The simple answer is: The Abuse Departements of providers NOT listed in
our Level 3 are doing an excellent job, while those listed do not. If your
provider really wants to stop the excessive spam coming from their ranges
they would simply install some preventive measures."
Honest customers can have their WordPress website hacked.
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