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[Wil <wil AT lesspheres.fr>]

I might be a little bite late on this. But just wanted to bring my 2 cents.

If I did understand right, SpamHaus sends the domains to blacklist to one or more admins, whose then update the list for the API.

When a user come to choose a DNS server, he can see in the details, if servers do or do not use a blacklist.

If I was this user, my first question would be, why and what’s in this list.

I guess that you don't stumble by chance on OpenNic. And maybe trust is the first think that I’ve in mind. Obscurancy doesn’t play well with trust and I wouldn’t like to search for 1 hour to understand the whole thing (even if I might be wrong on this).

Maybe a single page which explain everything, which also mention an up-to-date list wouldn’t heart.

I trully understand your concern about the way malware developpers could use an open list. But to be honest, I think it would be quite easy to test for example, every 5 min, if there domains are blacklist or not.

Beside, all OpenNic users should « pay » for a bunch of those guys.

I’m not a developper, but if I can do anything to put online a page that explain everything (on the wiki ?), I’m be glad to help.

Take care,

Wil.

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