[SURBL-Discuss] Re: Placeholder domains to whitelist?

Frank Ellermann nobody at xyzzy.claranet.de
Sun Sep 12 20:04:57 CEST 2004


Jeff Chan wrote:

> I'll add the ones mentioned in RFC 2606:
>         example.com
>         example.net
>         example.org
> but we should also include common examples from everyday use,
> even if they're not technically RFC compliant.

Be very careful with this.  I know that test.de and invalid.de
are okay, but generally you can't fix all silly abuse ideas.

It's better to support 2606 (example.cno, *.example, *.test,
*.invalid, *.localhost).  For the TLDs that's no problem, you
already know that example/test/invalid/localhost are reserved.
And *.local isn't better (but not officially reserved).

But something like say local.tv, who knows ?  Maybe they are
spammers, maybe they don't exist, maybe they are okay.  One SLD
rarely or never abused might be NIC.* in all existing TLDs.

                             Bye, Frank




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