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GoDaddy setting DMARC for new domains

Domain registrar GoDaddy has announced that as of April 2025, all new domains registered via them will come with a DMARC record by default, with a p=quarantine policy. In my opinion: This is very much a good thing. DMARC is so important when it comes to preventing phishing and spoofing, when it comes to preventing misuse of email domains to send mail without it being authorized by the domai…
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MBP Spotlight: secureserver.net

Who hosts what mail? MBP Spotlight is the series here at Spam Resource where I’ll share ranking data for the top mailbox providers (including B2B!) based on where they fall in the top ten million domains. Some entries might have more info, some entries might have less, depend…

Godaddy blocklisted by AHBL

The outbound mail servers used by Godaddy hosting customers appear to be blocklisted by the Abusive Hosts Blocking List (AHBL). Over in this Godaddy Community Forums thread , a Godaddy representative named ChrisG seems to be implying to complaining clients that AHBL is unrelia…

Godaddy misusing the PBL?

According to Justin Mason, domain registrar (and email/web hoster) Godaddy is misusing the Spamhaus PBL: Using it as a URL filter. This is where you convert a URL hostname to its IP address, then look up that IP address (or its nameserver) on an IP-based blacklist. Great idea. …