{"id":260,"date":"2025-03-19T10:52:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T09:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cubeos.org\/blog\/?p=260"},"modified":"2025-03-19T10:52:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T09:52:29","slug":"spammy-tlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cubeos.org\/blog\/2025\/03\/spammy-tlds\/","title":{"rendered":"Spammy TLDs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hi!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is going to be a quick one: As you probably realized, I am one of these Oldtimers that self-host pretty much everything. Including e-mail. And recently, I found a few spammers that made it through my spamfilters by using uncommon TLDs. Blocking individual spammy domains does not work as they seem to have access to a list of ( abandoned ?) 2nd level domains with valid SFP records and they keep on adding new ones. And so I regularly edit my Sendmail Access  file to keep them at bay by blocking the entire TLDs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So far I have blocked:<br>.sbs<br>.cfd<br>.lease<br>and I will add more as needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have never received any legitimate e-mail from these vanity TLDs and I don&#8217;t expect to ever receive one. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hope this helps,<br>H.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi! This is going to be a quick one: As you probably realized, I am one of these Oldtimers that self-host pretty much everything. Including e-mail. And recently, I found a few spammers that made it through my spamfilters by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cubeos.org\/blog\/2025\/03\/spammy-tlds\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[62,63,64],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-admin","tag-linux-2","tag-sendmail-2","tag-spam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cubeos.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cubeos.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cubeos.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cubeos.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cubeos.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cubeos.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261,"href":"https:\/\/www.cubeos.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions\/261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cubeos.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cubeos.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cubeos.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}