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Naive question: why isn't there a publicly accessible central repository of bad IPs and domains, stewarded by the industry, operated by a nonprofit, like W3C? Y
by poisonborz 1y ago
Naive question: why isn't there a publicly accessible central repository of bad IPs and domains, stewarded by the industry, operated by a nonprofit, like W3C? Yes it wouldn't be enough by itself ("bad" is a very subjective term) but it could be a popular well-maintained baseline.
- sim7c00 1y agothere are many of these and they are always outdated another issue is things like cloud hosting will overlap their ranges with legit business ranges happily, so if you go that route you will inadvertently also block legitimate things. not that a regular person care too much for that, but an abuse list should be accurate.
- nubinetwork 1y agohttps://xkcd.com/927/ https://xkcd.com/927/ For what it's worth, I'm also guilty of this, even if I made my site to replace one that died.