Microsoft's new spam filtering is affecting mail deliverability from a number of email service providers. MX Route is recommended here often enough that these issues may crop up for people here
I send a lot of email through Sendgrid. It's been blocking them as well.... live.com, outlook.com -- and everything is set up properly but they are still blocking a lot of legitimate email.
Hot Take: the proactive action of the registrar here is probably more beneficial than the number of false positives captured. If the registrar is aware that Google is hot on blocking potentially harmful sites, it's right that they take action expeditiously.
The bigger problem is the unbanning - for which there should be a better system, probably that should take the form of the registrar having a short grace period to aid in the Google stuff (DNS verification etc.) with additional checks by the registrar to make sure it's not being used for spam/malicious content.
The other point being why was Google banning you so quickly? This is the opaque part. Was the site reported? Was there some URL hijinks? That's the thing you'll probably never find out.
The was my first thought as well. Yes, using the Safe Browsing list feels wrong, but I don't know enough to speak definitively in that regards. However wouldn't a relatively simple solution be that if a registrar is choosing to use some third party's list of banned DNS entries that the registrar then also implement sufficient unblocked components that will allow people to be unbanned from that third party?
> Add a DNS TXT or a CNAME record.
I haven't had a use-case for a TXT record come up yet, but isn't it low risk enough to allow domain owners to continue to configure TXT records even if the registrar wants to ban configuring other record types? Then the person in the article could prove ownership and could then get off of the third party ban list that the registrar was utilizing.
DNS can be thought of as a distributed KV store with built in caching suitable for low write high read use cases, so TXT makes sense for that. e.g. basic feature flagging can be accomplished that way with basically no work to set it up assuming you were already using DNS.
The registry cannot ban individual record types. That is not how DNS works.
The registry only maintains a list of NameServers associated with the domain (and records for DNSSEC zone signing). Registries have nothing to do with regular records. They only record who defines those records.
There is _some amount_ of justification to ban TXT. There have been a few cases of C2 servers using DNS to send instructions to malware, so letting TXT slip through the cracks would still allow for that.
Now whether this downside justifies the massive problem it causes on false positives...
TXT can't be banned. There are several RFCs that require TXT records, such as DKIM configuration, DMARC configuration, and it is extensively used for verification by things like AWS SES, Microsoft Office, and all kinds of things. It's built into many standards and used by all kinds of other entities for all kinds of perfectly legitimate things.
Did you read my reply without reading the parent I was replying to? I’m talking about not allowing a blocked domain from being able to add new TXT entries as the parent was suggesting. Of course TXT shouldn’t be banned entirely…
they didn't "just" take down the site, they took down the whole domain
Even google safe search isn't blocking you site per-se, it just adds a very annoying "this site is not safe" dialog you can "somehow" bypass (but most people wont and don't know how).
Like if this where the main site of a company (which it very much could be) this would also have taken down mail, all APIs, all Apps relying on such APIs.
so no this is absurdly unreasonable actions
that they seem to neither know nor care that this makes it impossible to "fix" false positives with google isn't helpful put this in the area of high levels of negligence which can get you into a lot of trouble in the EU
This popped up on my Watch Again part of YT. I figured it may have been a few years since folk seen it and a little but if humour is never s bad thing for a Monday morning.
Think you've inadvertently found a way to provide extra tests for mobile devices.
The Crime and Punishment one consistently crashes Brave mobile for me. I assume it's the length of the URL - and seen another commentator say the same for chrome mobile (sure they both use the same codebase so likely an upstream issue).
Fully understand the reasons for the site - and the title on HN is shutdowns and site blocks - but the site itself displays self-enforcinging sites and shows them as potential government blocks.
There are blocked sites but you have to look for them in different sections of the site.
One site shown at the start of the other pages, adult friend finder is showing as blocked, however I can access it from my UK provider so honestly not sure what value this site brings (yet) apart from highlighting those that have a self-enforced blackout due to "451 Legal Reasons".
I'm on mobile so difficult to copy and paste - but that site was the top of an alphabetical list after I made my way past a few VPNs.
I'm genuinely surprised no one has mentioned mxroute[1]. Thier pricing normally is pretty decent, but they keep the BF deals going pretty much all year [2].
I've been using them for 6 years with no issues. I use it now with all my domains and never have any deliverability issues.
The owner (Jar - one person shop again) is passionate about their email reputation for deliverability and is active on both lowendtalk and the dedicated sub Reddit.
I ended up comparing purleymail and mxroute - tested mxroute and stayed with them.
Been using mxroute for years, have multiple domains (they let you use unlimited domains IIRC), never had any issues.
Great info on setting up stuff like SPF, DKIM. Easy to set quotas on accounts, set up catch-alls etc.
Never had an issue with deliverability or anything like that.
Probably sound like a shill, but I think it's such a good option, and really reasonably priced.
I have a perpetual black friday deal, and I pay like 15 USD a year!!
Their black Friday special does not seem to work (at present, anyway). I followed the .blackfriday link, tried to sign up and got a notice that "Black Friday 2024 - BF2024 Small plan is currently unavailable".
Also, on the .blackfriday site, when they say "Price: $15 / 3 years", do they mean $15 per year for three years, or $15 for three years?
Purelymail's About page lists one person, and the product is in beta.
MXRoute has years of track record, more than 1 employee, and has good tools like IMAPSync to enable easy duplication of your emails for backup or migration to a different platform.
The lyrics are so culturally appropriate to that time that anyone listening now wouldn't probably get it.
The same with Futuristic Sex Robotz with the Hotel Coral Essex album - some of those songs on there are so pinpointed in time that they just remind me of the computers and using them.
Agree, the reference to a Vauxhall Nova SR in 'Has it Come to This' is a case in point. The car itself, the boy racer culture of the era, it's very specific.
Some things don't change though. Geezers will always need excitement. Terry still drinks and gets in fights and Tim is still a criminal for the choice of herbs he inhales.
Been awhile since I've thought about FSR. Back in the day, I used to listen to WoW on repeat while putting far too many hours of my life into that game.
I run a small online store for decal’s for the geek market. When I say small - I mean I regularly only have 4 items listed. Think HANKA Robotics, TARS and the like.
I keep my costs to the bare minimum. I started it because I wanted decals no one else was making. I cannot justify feee shipping.
In the UK I eat the cost as it is about £1 to ship UK wide. Posting to the US is now around £7. I need to send tracked thanks to the selling platform.
It honestly pains me to have to charge shipping - but I could’t do it any other way. I can only imagine the costs that are associated with this for bigger outfits. Heck. Even Amazon has a logistics company now (but I suppose that’s where the Prime premium comes in!)
Either you charge shipping or you provide "free shipping" and make the products more expensive.
Usually the second option is more lucrative because it feels more attractive to customers, and if someone buys from a cheaper-to-ship location or buys multiple products you save more on shipping without passing the savings to the customer.
Free shipping carries a lot more risk for the seller from my experience. I used to do free shipping on eBay until I got an order from a tiny U.S. island that cost me big time to send out. I’ve also had orders from non-shippable addresses that force me into much more expensive carriers. These days I always charge shipping from specific carriers now. You can cancel orders as an eBay seller for tricky situations but you get dinged on your account.
Alternatively, like
Amazon did for many years, you can ‘reinvest your profits’ - aka subsidize shipping on behalf of investors.
VCs and many others did the same in Uber, UberEats, scooters, etc.
Then they stopped when the Fed started raising rates, as they expected (correctly) that expectations were changing and revenue now mattered more than expected future trajectory.
Difference is, Amazon did so while remaining profotable and, more importantly, cash flow positive. Operation free cash flow, a detail Uber at al forgot when they tried toncopy the Amazon model.
The hate came from it being pre installed on massively underpowered computers. The majority of users came to vista with a new PC and it just ruined the experience.
I still remember trying to troubleshoot a minor issue and it took half a day just because of the performance on this new PC.
