For many years, I've been using name.com for registering my own domain
name. It costs some $11-14 per year for .org and .com domains.
P.J.: if it is the spamvertised URL that is the culprit (which I am not
that sure about, as most typical blocklists do not take that into
account), then with your own domain, you should not get into that trouble.
In general, with big giants, like Google, Yahoo, and some ISPs, it is
often hard to get a resolution quickly (or at all), - as they are all
behind thick walls, and choose what they want to do. Over almost
a quarter-of-century, I've been dealing with such incidents for Komkon
servers (Komkon hosts PUG). Some are easier to deal with than others.
Out of some 15-20 incidents, only about 2-4 had a reason, the rest were
false positives.
The worst case was some 10 years ago, when one of the major antivirus (AV)
makers (used by many malware-detecting scanners) added a malware
signature that was matching a relatively popular programming library used
by software developers. As a result, some benign program available for
download from one of the sites hosted by Komkon was flagged by all those
anti-malware services. It took some time for that AV maker to fix that
problem in the engine, and then it took some additional time for that to
propagate to all different scanners and BL's.
While some of those scanners have whitelisted us manually upon contact,
the rest were unresponsive, so it took up to 2 weeks to mitigate that
situation. The worst part was that our own upstream ISP blocked our IP
from the Internet to prevent the distribution of that presumed malware.
IIRC, that complicated communication with all those BLs', as some of them
wanted to receive communication from the listed IP (to confirm IP
ownership), or something like that.
As for Google, - its penetration is too big. And we, being a part of the
their product (as opposed to being customers), have practically no
power over them.
At my home, so far, we have no "smart"/IOT appliances (except for
smartphones), not even Alexa. But I don't know how far we are
from the day when the "dumb" appliances (that just do their original
function, e.g. keep things cold, wash your clothes or show TV broadcast)
are no longer produced.
Do I want my pot texting my kettle?
(A scare thought: What if the next generation of DSLRs will start
"sexting" Smart TVs something akin Cotty's camera porn? ;-) Brrr! )
Cheers,
Igor
Larry Colen Mon, 04 Nov 2019 13:52:32 -0800 wrote:
On Nov 4, 2019, at 1:06 PM, P. J. Alling wrote:
Well updog.co seems to think it's a URL that contains their domain. They
advised me of a work around. Unfortunately the easiest way to implement
would cost me money to implement my own domain. Which could then still be
blacklisted by google.
I’ve been getting my domain through gandi
https://www.gandi.net/en
for many years. It costs me on the order of $20/year
https://www.gandi.net/en/domain
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