The PSL does not assert that listed TLDs are real (accredited) or not, merely
that they should be treated as such for evaluation purposes.
eu.org is just a regular domain which has an expiry date. If the registrant
fails to pay the bill, the registration will lapse and the DNS objects (along
with all of the entries/sub-domains) will disappear. It's only treated slightly
differently, similar to eu.com, because of the historic volume of sub-domains
used by legitimate corporate senders. This legacy is because they predate the
official .eu ccTLD so they used to be the only way to have a pan-European
domain name.
These days, there are very few companies using these sub-domains as sending
domains. They are an anomaly. I have seen deliverability problems connected
with them in the recent past and I'd advise any sender to avoid them.
Ken.
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From: mailop <mailop-boun...@mailop.org> on behalf of Mark Milhollan via mailop
<mailop@mailop.org>
Sent: Monday 20 September 2021, 19:02
To: mailop
Subject: Re: [mailop] Gmail putting messages to spam
On Mon, 20 Sep 2021, Ken O'Driscoll wrote:
> 2. Your sending domain (rafa.eu.org) is a sub-domain of a pseudo-TLD which a)
> gives sub-domains away for free, and b) has an overly permissive SPF policy
> ("v=spf1 +all"). The reputation of your sub-domain is going to be influenced
> by the reputations of the base domain and all of the other sub-domains.
One would hope Gmail consults the PSL which would disclose that
rafa.eu.org is not merely/only a subdomain of (name under) eu.org but
rather it is its own apex domain, just as names under com and co.uk are,
i.e., milhollan.com is a zone/parent delegated from com not merely a
name under com. And I certainly hope I don't inherit the reputation of
com and all the names under it.
$ psl --print-reg-domain com milhollan.com co.uk eu.org rafa.eu.org
com: (null)
milhollan.com: milhollan.com
co.uk: (null)
eu.org: (null)
rafa.eu.org: rafa.eu.org
I'll agree that if obtaining eu.org domains is too easy that might be
too strong a negative signal to easily overcome, or put another way it
might be easy to include other things that make a decision of spam for
only some of a series of messages.
/mark
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