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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-CA link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b>Rich Kulawiec</b> <<a href="mailto:rsk@gsp.org">rsk@gsp.org</a>><br>Date: Monday, March 16, 2015<br>Subject: [ NNSquad ] Extortion runs wild on .sucks gTLD<br>To: <a href="mailto:dave@farber.net">dave@farber.net</a><br>Cc: Lauren Weinstein <<a href="mailto:lauren@vortex.com">lauren@vortex.com</a>><br><br><br>(for IP, if you wish)<br><br>On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 11:52:54AM -0400, Lauren Weinstein wrote:<br>> As far as the overwhelmingly vast majority of new gTLDs is concerned,<br>> I've seen nothing from them but spam and phishing attempts, and I block<br>> them from my networks with zero sense of shame and without any obvious<br>> detrimental effects here. Personally, I recommend that you do the same.<br><br>I strongly concur with Lauren's assessment and his recommended course<br>of action: the new gTLDs are already heavily infested with spammers,<br>phishers, domainers and other abusers. (e.g., so far every domain I've<br>observed in .link, .club, and .science belongs to a spammer.)<br><br>However, I'd take an additional step: I'd use DNS RPZ (Reponse<br>Policy Zones) to effectively cause these TLDs to disappear from<br>the view of the Internet seen by anyone using the nameserver(s)<br>so configured. This not only stops incoming spam (presuming that<br>the mail server is configured to refuse mail from non-resolving<br>domains) but it stops outbound SMTP, HTTP, etc.<br><br>It's as if they don't exist, which is a highly desirable outcome.<br><br>---rsk<o:p></o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:4.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm' id=listbox-footer><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;background:white'><tr><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333'><a href="https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now" title="Go to archives for ip"><span style='color:#669933;text-decoration:none'>Archives</span></a> <a href="https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/22720195-c2c7cbd3" title="RSS feed for ip"><span style='color:#669933;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=100 height=100 id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:~WRD000.jpg" alt="Image removed by sender."></span></a>| <a href="https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=22720195&id_secret=22720195-8fdd4308" title=""><span style='color:#669933;text-decoration:none'>Modify</span></a> Your Subscription | <a href="https://www.listbox.com/unsubscribe/?member_id=22720195&id_secret=22720195-97c5b007&post_id=20150316121521:9EF6C906-CBF7-11E4-B48D-C2592D122C35" title=""><span style='color:#669933;text-decoration:none'>Unsubscribe Now</span></a> </span><o:p></o:p></p></td><td valign=top style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right'><a href="http://www.listbox.com"><span style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=100 height=100 id="_x0000_i1026" src="cid:~WRD000.jpg" alt="Image removed by sender."></span></a><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>