On Wednesday, April 21, 2004, 3:17:50 PM, Eric Kolve wrote:
On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 03:06:52PM -0700, Jeff Chan wrote:
On Wednesday, April 21, 2004, 2:54:01 PM, Jose-Marcio Martins wrote:
Yeah. But you did the assumption that all the rules are defined at some pages told before (bestregistrar, ...).
But there are exceptions. For example, brazilian domains. Most brazilian domains have three components, but not all. E.g. "cta.br" and "ita.br". These aren't spammers, but an engineering school and a research center from Brazilian Air Force.
Oh I just realized I misread Jose-Marcio's comment that cta.br and ita.br are not TLDs but regular domains under an otherwise two level ccTLD system (.br). So I've taken them off the two-level-tld list and moved them to the regular whitelist. (Functionally there's not much difference, but it's good to keep the spirit of the lists correct in usage.)
Not to beat a dead horse, but one benefit of having a wildcard A record would be that we only have to keep this kind of logic in one place (surbl). As it stands, both the client and the server need to keep their rules in sync in order for queries to hit. With the wildcard a client could query for the entire domain without worrying about what constitutes a ccTLD or not.
I'm not understanding how wildcarding would help. Can you give an example?
The only thing I can think of is that the lack of a wildcard would say that a (parent) domain was ok, whereas a wildcard would say that subdomains (child domains) are spammy. Probably that interpretation will seem wrong given some good examples or further explanation. :-)
Jeff C.