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A concrete counterexample: plantura.garden is a large, reputable German-language gardening magazine / brand, and probably exactly the kind of legitimate site on
by fabstei 3mo ago
A concrete counterexample: plantura.garden is a large, reputable German-language gardening magazine / brand, and probably exactly the kind of legitimate site one would expect on .garden.
So while the abuse numbers may well justify treating newly registered / low-reputation .garden domains with suspicion, blanket-blocking the entire TLD seems like it would create real collateral damage.
- strictnein 3mo agoFor businesses, it's not a valid reason to not block .garden simply because a gardening site exists. If a site is important enough, exceptions to the blanket rule can be applied. In general though, if you want Fortune 500s to utilize your service/company, don't utilize a novelty TLD.
- drdexebtjl 3mo agoBlanket ban rules are extremely lazy and unacceptable in 2026, especially for Fortune 500s. It’s extremely cheap to use a scoring system instead.
- thih9 3mo agoSure, but blanket bans are even cheaper.
- Martinussen 3mo agoUnacceptable for who? It's definitely more than acceptable for a lot of people.
- strictnein 3mo agoReally don't understand what "unacceptable" even means in this context. It is perfectly acceptable for a company to control internet access. More to the point though, what is this cheap and easy domain scoring system that does a better job than a blanket ban? The best domain reputation provider, DomainTools, definitely isn't providing their data for cheap, nor is it always the fastest. We pay a substantial amount to them for thousands of requests a day, something we reserve for enriching actual security incidents, not because someone wants to go to catparty.foobar or whatever.
- SOLAR_FIELDS 3mo agoYou say this as if the people implementing TLD blocks even understand what the term scoring system means
- monster_truck 3mo agoThey really aren't when you are operating at ISP scale. Especially when there are 20+ years of evidence of said scoring systems being abused until they calcified into the mess that is modern email hosting
- kingforaday 3mo agoWould you consider .aero, .cat, .asia, .info novelties? They have been around for 20+ years. Sure, there are over 1500 gTLDs now, but when does something stop becoming a novelty? .ai a ccTLD, that Google recognizes as a gTLD, is that a novelty? These are a bit rhetorical.
- Bender 3mo agoI would define them by the bar to entry. When a spammer can pick up thousands of domains for a few hundred bucks or less because a dodgy registrar is intentionally selling all domains on a specific TLD for next to nothing I find it safe to block anything on that TLD. I have always done this for email both personally and professionally and never once received any push-back. I explained the risk of collateral damage and leadership was always fine with it. Customers were B2B and could log in to open a ticket. Customer emails would come from domains we already trusted in their on-boarding process.
- ctippett 3mo agoI can't speak for the others, but registering a .aero domain requires submitting an application that's reviewed by a human and assessed based on the domain's relevancy to the aviation industry.
- ctoth 3mo ago> In general though, if you want Fortune 500s to utilize your service/company, don't utilize a novelty TLD. New potential technique to not have your open source project yoinked/resold by cloud providers? :)
- qq66 3mo agoI don't think that anyone claims that there aren't any legitimate sites on .garden, but the risk of using an abuse-prone TLD is that Bayesians are going to assign you an increased prior risk of abuse. Honestly the TLD is making more money from the abusers than from Plantura so they're not going to tighten up their ship, Plantura should probably move to a different TLD.
- aaron695 3mo ago[dead]