On 2023-03-22 at 15:44:10 UTC-0400 (Thu, 23 Mar 2023 03:44:10 +0800)
fh--- via mailop <[email protected]>
is rumored to have said:
May I know why you block PW TLD entirety?
Not all of them are spams IMO.
100% of the messages arriving at the mail systems I manage claiming to
be from a *.pw domain were spam, prior to my outright banning them. In
the years since, I've never had any indication that any of the messages
rejected as a result have not also been spam.
It may be worth noting that pw has a particularly notable position, as
it was one of the earliest demonstrators of how a registry can sabotage
a TLD. They decided to market their "Pro Web" domains by making them
free and returnable for a while when first introduced. This was jumped
on by a few spamming operations who basically drenched the TLD in a vat
of reputational sewage that will likely NEVER wash off, all in about a
week almost exactly 10 years ago. Even worse, the event apparently gave
other TLD hucksters the idea of launching in the same way, dooming a
handful of other gTLDs (and pimped-out ccTLDs like pw) to a lifetime of
crap deliverability.
If I ever have reason to believe that any user of any system I handle
will ever receive a wanted message from a *@*.pw address (or any address
in any of the other TLDs with similar blocks,) I will exempt the domain
in question. It has happened for some .online domains and more domains
in2 TLDs that I no longer block. Not for pw.
On 2023-03-22 23:53, John Levine via mailop wrote:
It appears that fh--- via mailop <[email protected]> said:
On 2023-03-22 12:19, Scott Undercofler wrote:
Like .tk and .ml that are free?
He means the .pw TLD he was using.
Oh, no wonder. I block it too.
R's,
John
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