[HN Gopher] Show HN: List of disposable email domains to prevent...
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       Show HN: List of disposable email domains to prevent fake
       registrations
        
       Author : zenull
       Score  : 14 points
       Date   : 2021-11-22 16:39 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (disposable-emails.github.io)
 (TXT) w3m dump (disposable-emails.github.io)
        
       | smoldesu wrote:
       | That's funny, but it still doesn't stop me from feeding you a
       | fake redirection to a legitimate email, which is what you should
       | _actually_ worry about. If you want to enforce a dystopian level
       | of authenticity on your users, you should make a whitelist, not a
       | blacklist. Coincidentally, you 'd also be losing my patronage,
       | but I suppose that's the cost of "progress" in web development.
        
         | ev1 wrote:
         | I've seen a few sites offer a dropdown of allowable domains,
         | generally only ones that require SMS verification at minimum
         | and ban VoIP major freemail players.
        
       | greenyoda wrote:
       | Sorry, but if an unknown and untrusted site demands my "real"
       | e-mail address, I just won't register. If they don't accept a
       | disposable e-mail address, what that says to me is that they want
       | to make it harder for me to unsubscribe from any spam they might
       | send me. Or maybe they want to track me across multiple sites,
       | which I don't want either.
        
         | Meph504 wrote:
         | Agreed, There is rarely a product of service today without a
         | competitor, and if I'm using a fake email address, its likely I
         | am just checking the service out, and didn't want to make a
         | commitment yet anyway.
         | 
         | Force my hand that early in the game, you just loose my
         | business.
        
       | vineyardmike wrote:
       | There are some very odd inclusions in this list (which i think,
       | like most of HN people should not use).
       | 
       | > kemptvillebaseball.com
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       | > isukrainestillacountry.com
       | 
       | These seem like people's project domains or team domains, and got
       | swept up in some sort of strange authenticity list. Unless the
       | domains were hijacked for spam, it doesn't seem like a player on
       | that baseball team is fake.
       | 
       | Relatedly, does anyone know what happened to Mailhero? I used to
       | use them, and it kinda became a problem when my emails stopped
       | arriving, and i miss the service.
        
       | 908B64B197 wrote:
       | Why prevent registrations from disposable emails?
       | 
       | The reason people do it is because they got burned in the past
       | with websites that started spamming them/were not as advertised.
       | 
       | Rate-Limit accounts from disposable emails if you must, but if
       | you see activity past the duration of the disposable email, offer
       | these accounts a way to transfer over to a permanent email.
        
       | toomuchtodo wrote:
       | Seems like you'd be unable to block iCloud's relay emails, they
       | use the icloud.com domain. Fastmail's masked email addresses use
       | fastmail.com.
        
       | omgmajk wrote:
       | Disposable email is the only reason you can sign up to a lot of
       | things online, the amount of spam that comes from these hundreds
       | of mildly interesting sites is abysmal. And as a result your mail
       | could end up in multiple datadumps yearly. No thanks.
        
       | beardyw wrote:
       | If you own a domain you have as many as you want. But GitHub did
       | some sort of check which caught me out. Not sure what that
       | involves?
        
       | 1cvmask wrote:
       | This is a cat and mouse game. And the list seems very small. Like
       | a fraction of a fraction.
        
         | zenull wrote:
         | It's almost impossible to catch them all but we should try.
         | Anyway I hope this list will help admins to fight fake
         | registrations :)
        
           | riedel wrote:
           | I think we rather should to support the tempmail services to
           | register new domains and try to make "member control" as
           | difficult as possible. Good sites need no throw away
           | registration in the first place.
        
       | m-p-3 wrote:
       | The one I use isn't on it, and thank goodness.
       | 
       | I use an email proxy exactly because I'm trying to protect my
       | privacy and to cut down on spam email, as it helps me determine
       | its origin without exposing my real email and let my blacklist or
       | discard that proxy email address.
        
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