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SpamHaus Behind .mail Top-Level Domain
securitas writes "The SpamHaus Project is the group pushing ICANN to create a new trusted-sender system and the .mail top-level domain. SpamHaus proposes that registrants under the .mail TLD would pay at least $2000 per year to and 'agree to abide by certain anti-spam mailing practices.' The interesting twist is that companies that comply with the US CAN-SPAM act - which SpamHaus opposed due to the legalization of bulk unsolicited commercial e-mail - would not be eligibile to register a .mail address.
The .mail TLD proposal was recently discussed on Slashdot."
Give me a fucking break. I'll stick with my .com for now.
And *I* don't see why small companies like myself wouldn't take the chance to lower their email hosting fees by a dollar and offer guaranteed delivery of non-spam. I already police my users (so no worries about losing access to .mail), all I'd have to do is outlay $2000 per year. I only need to host 33 email domains at $5/mo each to cover that. I already have TRIPLE that in email domains, so I'd do it. In yet another fact, I could probably get my coloc admin to grant me relay on one of his servers...and make him pay the $2000 (or rather add it to his operating costs, which are 1000 times mine).
I mean, why the FUCK do you need an smtp server at your house anyway? I don't have a UPS Store in my basement. SMTP at home is the reason we have so much spam, plain and simple.
Hey freaks: now you're ju
When big ISPs block your SMTP ports?
When the US declares it a crime (mail fraud, I think?) to open others' mailboxes and stick mail in there?
Is nothing taken away from the end users there?
So sorry. The Internet is growing larger than the old methods can handle. I too would love to have my own mail server, but it's probably becoming less and less practical; who knows if I'm a spammer or not?