Zoho.com CEO says domain with 40M users suspended for abuse complaint

Post by glenngillen » Mon, Sep 24, 2018, 10:33 PM UTC

krn wrote: post #97

tlamponi wrote: post #45

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Just FYI, I'm one of the maintainers of a mid-size forum regarding opensource virtualization/containers and thus spam is a daily occurrence. While the fight against it is rather dire and no end will ever be in sight, I'll nonetheless never stop (tool assisted) fighting. Anyway, @zoho.com addresses used by spammers started to pop up circa a month ago and increased rapidly in occurrence. As we use stopforumspam to repo…

It sounds like the spammers found a way to automatically create new @zoho.com email accounts, and the single way to stop them might be using a CAPTCHA service from the direct competitor, Google. At least that was the unfortunate case for the privacy focused German email provider Mailbox.org[1]: > We recently detected activities on our servers where bot nets were used to create hundreds of thousands of e-mail accounts…

Post by indigodaddy » Mon, Sep 24, 2018, 10:42 PM UTC

edm0nd wrote: post #68

svembu1 wrote: post #5

Zoho CEO here. Our domain was abruptly blocked by our registrar this morning. Our NOC team and myself tried to get in touch with them and they tell us "Contact our legal". Even I could not get in touch with anyone beyond their phone operator. The domain was restored, but as DNS takes time to restore, we are still facing issues. They later claimed there were abuse complaints about Zoho.com emails (which is our persona…

Transfer your domain to a major registrar. Tierra.net looks like some bs cheap registrar and doesn't have any social media updates on their accounts since 2017. I'd recommend Namecheap.

Post by cm2187 » Mon, Sep 24, 2018, 10:46 PM UTC

krn wrote: post #109

lwansbrough wrote: post #102

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I suppose due to the increasing risk of being broken by competing neural networks, recaptcha appears to be moving towards a model based on usage heuristics in v3. This is something that is more easily achievable by a small startup, so I hope to see competition for this type of solution if there isn't some already.

> recaptcha appears to be moving towards a model based on usage heuristics in v3 I always thought that Google has a huge competitive advantage here, because most people browse the web being logged into their Gmail accounts, and, therefore, as with Google Analytics and Google Adsense, Google knows that it's you who is viewing that page. It can then present extremely time-consuming CAPTCHAs to anonymous visitors, most…

Post by ted0 » Mon, Sep 24, 2018, 10:52 PM UTC

svembu1 wrote: post #5

Zoho CEO here. Our domain was abruptly blocked by our registrar this morning. Our NOC team and myself tried to get in touch with them and they tell us "Contact our legal". Even I could not get in touch with anyone beyond their phone operator. The domain was restored, but as DNS takes time to restore, we are still facing issues. They later claimed there were abuse complaints about Zoho.com emails (which is our persona…

Post by gibsonf1 » Mon, Sep 24, 2018, 11:00 PM UTC