On 3/22/23 23:32, Bill Cole via mailop wrote:
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.
And then we have freenom, still giving away .tk, .ml, .ga, .cf and .gq domains for free... I don't block those TLDs, but they spew out enough spam that they go directly to the spam folder.
-- BR/Mvh. Dan Malm, Systems Engineer, one.com _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list [email protected] https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
