RE: [anti-spam-wg@localhost] Spamhaus & ".mail" TLD

["Michele Neylon :: Blacknight Solutions" <]

> 2000 USD for a subdomain under .mail /will/ be a money spinner. At least
> if they can enforce that everyone running a mailserver must have a
> subdomain there.
> How much "legitimate" MTAs in different domains do you estimate to exist?
> Is 1 million a good estimate?
> 1 million * 2000 USD per year is a lot of money I'd say for running a
> few DNS servers.

That works on the premise that *everybody* would register and use the TLD.
My understanding of the $2000 fee is too dissuade spammers and other
disreputable users from abusing the "trusted" element that this TLD could
offer.