+1 Paul. I can understand the need to protect one's clients from incoming spam by blocking an entire TLD. I do get that. However, i would like to point out that NO external report can conclude the exact percentage of abuse activity originating from within a TLD namespace. Rather than blocking, I would encourage engagement with TLD operators to fix the problem. I beleive no operator applied for an nTLD to promote spam/abuse. Final thought, despite having a great registration to abuse ratio, .com is still on top of the most abused TLD list - http://www.surbl.org/tld. It has always been there. *Aman Masjide*Program Manager Anti-Abuse Department T: +91 (22) 6196 6300 Extn: 8653 Skype: amasjide *Google Buys Business.Site for Google My Business <http://bit.ly/2xsTmrn>* On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 12:16 AM, Asmus Freytag <asmusf@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
On 4/30/2018 10:28 AM, Paul Stahura wrote:
folks should not block entire TLDs, only subdomains
Well, that assumes a public TLD, otherwise the distinction is meaningless.
But there are TLDs with badness quotients of well over 50%. I'm all in favor of blacklisting the whole TLD as an "incentive" to come clean.
https://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/tlds/
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which is what happens in all legacy TLDs. I doubt any admin is blocking ALL of .com, .biz, .uk etc my suggestion:
* make sure you accept any TLD by default, but feel free to blacklist any domain name that you consider harmful*
On Apr 30, 2018, at 9:54 AM, Mark Svancarek via UA-discuss < ua-discuss@icann.org> wrote:
This seems reasonable, are there any objections?
*we could advocate is: make sure you accept any TLD (and any domain name) by default, but feel free to blacklist those that you consider harmful*
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Il 26 aprile 2018 alle 22.27 Andrew Sullivan <ajs@anvilwalrusden.com> ha scritto:
I guess I was wondering whether the SG wants to say that b is fine but c is a bad idea. It sounds like the SG _does_ think that, but I can't find it on the site yet :-)
I think that system administrators should be aware that many more TLDs than the best known ones exist, including TLDs in non-ASCII characters, and even more will be introduced, and should support and accept all of them except if they think they have reasons to blacklist specific TLDs due to non-technical issues. So, what we could advocate is: make sure you accept any TLD (and any domain name) by default, but feel free to blacklist those that you consider harmful. This would IMHO be an acceptable stance that does not enter into thorny content-related issues (because it does not tell anyone what to blacklist and when) but still promotes universal acceptance. Regards, --
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