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.mail Domain To Eliminate Spam?
steve.m writes "The BBC are reporting on a new batch of top level domain names being submitted to ICANN for approval. By far the most interesting proposal is for a .mail TLD to register legitimate mail servers. Could this eventually be the end of spam ?" *yawn* The same old discussion, with no implementation in sight.
I might have missed something, but how would changing the TLD prevent spam?
.mail TLD be able to send mail to each other?
* I could still sign up for bogus accounts with www.hotmail.mail
* I can still have a poorly configured box that relays spam to www.myisp.mail
Changing the name will not fix this unless the roots of the problem are addressed, unless
it was intended that only servers with a
"That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet" - William Shakespeare
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A huge amount (if not the majority) of spam comes from open relays and compromised machines which this silly idea doesn't address. A ground-up overhaul of the mail system (with authentication) is what's needed, not another level of bureaucratic nonsense.
Trolling is a art,
I have not been a fan of new TLDs for some time, as it seems to promote confusion. I consider it to be more inefficient to have companyname.info, companyname.com, companyname.net, companyname.org, companyname.mail, etc.... than to just have a simple single domain name (or the three majors, org net and com), with subdomains to break out the company functions (support, sales, mail, www, ftp). It seems much more confusing to me to have companyname.mail than mail.companyname.com, and besides that, why would we possibly want to justify the cost to register our domain under several TLDs, when .com has always been enough?
*yawn* The same old discussion, with no implementation in site.
Sorta like making an improved moderation system on slashdot instead of ping-ponging votes around?
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
Great, now you're forced to own two domain names to be able to host your own email server, one .mail for *gasp* your mail and one .*** for everything else. .ftp, .ssh and so on when you're at it.
Why not create
--- No, english is not my mother tongue.
It's pretty light on details, but it seems that the two most logical applications are problematic:
1) When you register foo.{com,net,biz,org,*} you also got foo.mail as a bonus. But if one person rgisters foo.com and also gets foo.mail, what happens to the person who later registers foo.net.
2) As a possible solution to point 1, when you register foo.com you also get foo.com.mail. This just seems ugly.
Also, will it cost me another $15-$45/year to get the benefit of this new domian? What of people who choose to not porticipate?
I still fail to see what the problem is with just doing a reverse lookup on the domain's MX. It utilizes existing infrastructure and isn't as ugly as throwing in another TLD to the mix.
but not selling 30 or more domain names to each company makes much less money for the registrars..
the whole thing is driven by greed, and it is EXACTLY what the creators of the internet said would happen as soon as greedy asshats got their hands on it.
anyone want to start Internet 1.5? create a wrapper protocol to run a real internet on top of the current mess?