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."

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Re:Yeah But... by taustin · 2004-03-25 12:01 · Score: 2, Offtopic

How long until they find a way to get their own .mail server?

Spammers have been using their own mail servers for years. And now they're using virus zombie networks anyway, which this won't stop.