[ALAC] The Ten Worst Top Level Domains

[gbruen at knujon.com]

Thanks Olivier. This may or may not be a coincidence, but I definitely 
did not plan on releasing my own data at the same time as Spamhaus.

However, I have conducted my own review of spam-heavy TLDs and will be 
publishing the results today. I contacted each registry directly and 
waited a few days to hear back from each of them. I can say that some of 
the registries have been responsive and other have not. Time will reveal 
how each registry handles the abuse issue, and this is what I plan to 
look at.

My report looks at all TLDs, not just new TLDs, but there is a clear 
pattern which supports the Spamhaus results, in that new gTLDs are 
rapidly passing legacy TLDs in abuse rates.

The report also editorializes ICANN's consumer trust issues in terms of 
the website and compliance.

ALAC get's the first crack: 
http://www.knujon.com/knujon-icann-consumers-rygy-limbo-032016.pdf



On 3/7/16 6:27 PM, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> as you know, the ALAC has been wondering about whether new gTLDs brought
> consumer trust.
> Well - an organisation has released a list of gTLDs that don't appear to
> be as trustworthy as others when it comes to spam.
> https://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/728/spamhaus-presents-the-worlds-worst-top-level-domains
>
> Since this relates to spam, and we are concerned about universal
> acceptance of new gTLDs, how likely is it that some of the TLDs listed
> might be blacklisted in mailers in the future?
> Kindest regards,
>
> Olivier
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