SpamHaus Behind .mail Top-Level Domain

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday March 25, 2004 @11:18AM from the better-mail-for-a-better-tomorrow dept.

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."

2 of 304 comments (clear)

Just cut to the chase by siliconbunny · 2004-03-25 11:21 · Score: 5, Funny

Set up a .spam level, and we can block everything from that if we want.
What we really need... by ackthpt · 2004-03-25 11:24 · Score: 4, Funny

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.

--

A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar