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."

Comments

Just cut to the chase

[siliconbunny]

Set up a .spam level, and we can block everything from that if we want.

What we really need...

[ackthpt]

What we really need is a .spam tld. All mass emailers not using .spam must have testicle or nipple placed in a vice and slowly tightened until...

Oh, wait, that's the divorce tactic.

What the heck, it'd probably work for spammers, too.

Re:So basically, this is a $2000 whitelist.

[spellraiser]

From the article:

SpamHaus probably won't have many hurdles from a technical stability standpoint. The organisation is tapping VeriSign, which has more experience operating TLDs than any other company, to provide the back-end infrastructure.

Be thankful; $2000 is VeriSign cutting-their-own-throats :-)

I propose this:

[ziggamon]

Everyone on Slashdot sends one email to spamhaus.org.

Re:$2000 - one time, or per year?

[dasmegabyte]

A beautiful rebuttal, in pure slashdot fashion.

Newbies could learn well from this: if a poster states a valid, insightful argument that goes against the idea that all information should be free, your first line of defense should be anonymous cuss words.

If these fail, call them Micro$oft lovers. Or Mac zealots.