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Reference: Virgin Media UK Email Domains

Virgin Media (UK) is a British telecommunications company which provides telephone, television and internet services in the United Kingdom. The current version of this entity traces its roots back to Telewest, NTL Incorporated and Virgin.net. As noted here , their email domains are as follows: virginmedia.com ntlworld.com blueyonder.co.uk virgin.net All MX'ing to servers under virginmed…
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Fun with data: Top UK mailbox providers (by one measure)

It's infographic time! This one breaks down the top 25 mailbox providers in the UK, as measured by this methodology: Any domain in the "top 10 million domains" ( as measured by various online tools ), And that domain name ends in .uk, the Internet country code top…

Sending spam can cost you: Halfords

I try not to do a lot of "name and shame," but when something like this hits the news, it's important to let the world know, to remind us that sending unsolicited marketing email can indeed come back to bite the sender in the rear end. In this case, it's UK bi…

UK/EU GDPR: What is valid consent?

Previously I've talked about the affirmative consent standard found in the US federal anti-spam law (CAN-SPAM). I've found it very useful test when trying to understand if a process is appropriately opt-in our not. Wondering if GDPR has something similar? It does. For …

UK ICO fines credit card company for marketing content in service emails

Steve Henderson, UK DMA Email Council member (and Chair of the Legal and Deliverability Hub) shares that the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)  recently fined a credit card company  for including marketing material in what the company deemed non-marketing service …

Dead email domain: tesco.net

Did you know that UK Retailer Tesco offered email service? Me neither, but I'm not their target demographic. I assume they did or do offer internet service and that the email service perhaps went along with that. Anyway, as of June 27, 2018, the email service at tesco.net…

October 11: Spam in the News

Wondering if government action against spammers still happens? Here's an example from the UK. MediaPost's EmailMarketingDaily reports that "two UK firms were fined thousands of pounds by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for allegedly spamming consumers.&…

Orange UK Email Closure

United Kingdom-based ISP Orange (now part of Everything Everywhere aka EE) has announced that they are shutting down their email service as of May 31, 2017. This affects users at these domains: orange.net, orangehome.co.uk, wanadoo.co.uk, freeserve.co.uk, fsbusiness.co.uk, fsli…

Virgin Media is so rustic and artisan you get to hand-sort your own spam

Can't beat that headline. UK ISP Virgin Media is having a few problems with its spam filters, reports the Register. Previously hosting user mailboxes on Google-managed systems, the ISP was forced to bring it back in house after Google stopped selling the service to ISPs. A…

Sky.com Transitioning to Yahoo! Mail backend

One of the UK's largest ISPs, Sky.com, has hired Yahoo! Mail to run their email infrastructure. For more information, surf on over to this page with current status and details. Sounds like it's not going so well for subscribers. What does this mean for senders? Smart …

Online Privacy in the UK

Planning to handle consumer data in the UK? Then it's time to learn about the Data Protection Act 1998. Thankfully, Wikipedia has a very helpful overview . What are the key takeaways? Data may only be used for the specific purposes for which it was collected. Data must no…