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Update: domain unsuspended!

Porkbun took a dim view of the outcome apparently; overnight they went into bat for me while I slept and have now sorted it with XYZ! I have updated them with the responses from Spamhaus and are going to follow up on that as well. Honestly I am super impressed with Porkbun after this. Faith in (some of) humanity restored. Especially their staff member Steve.


TLDR: Be wary using XYZ owned domains

What a fucking debacle. I purchased a cheap .quest domain to run my xmpp server on for my family and a few close friends. It was on sale, was cheap and I grabbed it.
It lasted less than 24 hours before being suspended by the regsistrar.

Turns out, it ended up on a spamhaus list, and XYZ suspends domains automatically based on that. I have lodged tickets with each, but can't rectify because:
- Spamhaus issues can't be rectified because the domain is locked
- XYZ won't unsuspend because it is still on the Spamhaus blocklist

Chicken and egg. I have tickets with each, and with Porkbun which is where I started.
I get it. It's a fucking great scam to bleed money from spammers when they snap up cheap domains.

I just wanted one to self-host xmpp for my family though, and am now caught up in the loop sadly.

It is extremely unlikely I will purchase any other XYZ owned domains (there are a lot, and some fun ones sadly).

Spamhaus in itself isn't necessarily a bad thing; it is a great tool. But automatically flagging everything listed by it in your registrar? Yeah nah fuck that. XYZ using external blocklists where everything is automatically opted in with no practical recourse is a terrible idea. The same goes for domains, fedi, whatever. There is always collateral damage and it sours it for everyone. It is just a stupid.

#spamhaus #domains #domain #DNS #XYZ #spam #blocklist #porkbun
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Folks who want to hold off the escalating enshitification of Roku and keep their home screen working as originally intended, i.e. a place from which to launch apps to stream video, you should block

cloudservices.roku.com

in addition to using the Smart-TV Blocklist at

perflyst.github.io/PiHoleBlock

for various "smart TV" platforms and streaming services (not specifically Roku).

Hey everybody! New spambot instance just dropped for your blocklists:

social.freysa.ai

Spamming hashtags with vaguely relevant posts that don't say much. From the few accounts I examined, it seems like they're gearing up to push crypto-based, get-rich-quick scams.

Also, the sudden massive volume of "Give me 500 social media posts about how cool citizen science is, in a friendly, positive tone" prompts, from random brand-new accounts all blasting out at the exact same time, is a bit of a giveaway.

Even though the "Hey, spammer! Here's a list for you!" article nxdomain.no/~peter/hey_spammer was only posted in July of that year, I'm fairly confident that today is very close to the 18th birthday of the #greytrapping based #blocklist I host at nxdomain.no/~peter/traplist.sh. Perhaps a restrospective of the "has it been worth the effort?" kind is in order soonish.

Is an #openbsd #spamd retrospective wanted?

nxdomain.noHey, spammer! Here's a list for you!