On 10 Jul 2024, at 19:44, Jeff Pang via mailop <mailop@mailop.org> wrote: > > Is there domain name discrimination in the email industry? For example, com, > net, and org are considered to have higher reputations, while info, xyz, and > top are considered to have lower ratings. The latter do attract a lot of spam > because they are cheaper in the first year. Will this lower the ratings of > these domain names?
My first thought was, rather uncharitably, “you’re new here, aren't you?”. But then I stopped to think about that; if you don’t know, you don’t know. And our (collective) job is to make sure you do, so… When ICANN decided to loosen the belts on non-country code TLDs, the spam business licked their lips and said “have at it, boys”. They mechanised registrations and spewed forth spam like there was literally no tomorrow, to the extent that TLDs like .xyz/.top (much less .info, which preceded them) were blocked within a few hours or days of going live by a very large number of mail operators. At $WORKPLACE I think I’ve only had two FPs for those TLDs since they were launched. So it’s not the pricing, per se, it’s the governance. If people want to live on the edge of the Wild West they can, just don’t assume my (or other) users wish to also. Graeme _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
