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Here's why: they sold for cheap / gave away registrations for next to nothing with no vetting process, so .xyz was the go-to domain for spam and phishing for qu
by johnklos 6y ago
Here's why: they sold for cheap / gave away registrations for next to nothing with no vetting process, so .xyz was the go-to domain for spam and phishing for quite a long time after it was introduced.
Some of us (email administrators) have only recently started allowing .xyz email. It really was that bad.
- lstodd 6y agoIf you're serious about a "vetting process" for domain registration, you haven't had anything to do with email admin for last 20 years.
- tomrod 6y agoI don't normally chime in on comments like this, but I just have to say: what are you talking about? If 99.9999% of traffic from a domain is spam,it makes complete sense to block it as spam.
- lstodd 6y agoYes, but that is in no way limited to .xyz It was the the same with .info in 2001/2002 and .biz and whatever else. The point was that there never was any "vetting" ever. Bulk-buy, spam, abandon. That's what spam was and is.
- jawns 6y agoI have a .science domain name, and I only found out after purchasing it and building out a website that it is on many blocklists because there was a time when it was one of the cheapest TLDs, and scammers took advantage. Which is a darn shame, because unlike .io or .xyz where the TLD doesn't necessarily signify what type of content you'll find, .science is clearly a subject-matter specific TLD, and it bugs me that because of these scammers, the association between science and scams is being perpetuated.