DNSPOD joins the fight against spam
By Ryan on Saturday 15 September 2007, 12:51 - Permalink
DNSPOD (新闻组, view report)
has teamed up with Spamtrackers to bring the power of spam eduction to the
Asian continent. By agreeing to host and provide DNS services to spamtrackers
in China (TBA), DNSPOD has demonstrated that they are one of those rare ethical
ISP that care not only about making a profit, but also in making the internet a
safer and more pleasant place for all.We have been watching DNSPOD for a while, beginning in April 2007, when we posted this article. At that time, spammers had just discovered this service, and were beginning to abuse it. But the founder of DNSPOD was quick to react, by re-creating the account creation interface and making it impossible to anonymously create accounts, which was previously the case. They also added stricter rules, that clearly state that they will suspend any fraudulent account.
The result is that DNSPOD's excellent services have only continued to improve, and so too has the quality of their customers. Like the French 'activist' registrar GANDI.NET (registrar, and relay host of Spamhaus), and the Hong Kong registry HKDNR (who recently have finished removing all spamvertized domains from their database), DNSPOD has decided to take a moral and technical stand in the fight against spam and internet abuse and join the small but growing number of ethical ISP.
When asked why he would take a stance against spammers by not allowing them to use the services of DNS, the founder of DNSPOD, HongShen Wu says that '90% of e-mails I receive each day is spam. So as it is, I hate spammers".
Besides the issue that creates a bond between all internet users (the massive amount of junk mail that contaminates our inbox), Mr. Wu mentions the very real problem of spam from the ISP end. According to Mr. Wu, Spammers cost a large amount of system resources and make servers unstable. Perhaps the most significant technical problem is that their use perturbs the proper functioning of our legal users' domains, so that they don't operate correctly - functions like MX records'.
Just like GANDI and HKDNR, DNSPOD could have gone either way. In the end, however, they made the good decision to go whitehat and to do what is right. DNSPOD's founder believes in building communities and supporting them when he can. For these reasons, Spamtrackers is happy to have chosen them as a partner in our fight against spam.
It's only a matter of time before other ISP realize that being ethical is not only good for the community, it is good for business...
Comments
I am really proud of any person who take the " high " road instead of the moral abyss so prevalent in this world today. Keep up the good work and know that what you are doing will indeed produce in the end better communities which are safe and enjoyable. I was a victim of a spam site and hopefully it will never happen again.