An email list’s open rate drops over 50% after changes to Gmail spam filtering

Re:An email list’s open rate drops over 50% after changes to... by throwanem on Friday July 07, 2017 @10:38AM (#14718644)

GoDaddy, and maybe that's my problem. On the other hand, I've been doing business with them for many years, and never had anything remotely resembling this happen before. I also didn't use whois privacy, but, again, I've made that choice on many domains before, and likewise never seen anything like this result from it.

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Re:An email list’s open rate drops over 50% after changes to... by saul_goodman on Friday July 07, 2017 @11:16AM (#14718970)

Some domains have been used as shit magnets and you can inherit that mess if you pick it up quickly after it's been dropped.

I wouldn't believe it myself, until it happened to me. I've run small mail servers for various domains for years with only "average" amounts of spam. Then one time I picked up a personal domain of my handle (not this one) which I'd wanted for years and I discovered it finally was free. The moment I setup an mx for that domain I got a firehose of spam coming in to it. In fact it was so bad I had to unreg the mx and leave it for another year before it was worth doing anything email-wise with the domain. Just the bounce processing was driving cpu and bandwidth more than I cared to deal with, even if it wasn't receiving any local mail.

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Re:An email list’s open rate drops over 50% after changes to... by throwanem on Friday July 07, 2017 @12:55PM (#14719925)

I checked the IP and the domain before I went with either of them, and their reputations are both clean, so I don't think that's it. I've definitely had that kind of trouble in the past, though.

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Re:An email list’s open rate drops over 50% after changes to... by rtx on Friday July 07, 2017 @11:06AM (#14718876)

This is due to a new business model. Where companies scrape ICANN data base for newly registered domains and then sell it to service providers.

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Re:An email list’s open rate drops over 50% after changes to... by throwanem on Friday July 07, 2017 @12:56PM (#14719935)

That squares with what I'm seeing, yeah - a lot of cheaply automated nonsense trolling for a few suckers.

Is there anywhere I can look for more information on how this model works in detail, and how to avoid the same problem in future? It's a real pain in the neck. Thanks!

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Re:An email list’s open rate drops over 50% after changes to... by rtx on Friday July 07, 2017 @03:02PM (#14721112)

Best way is to opt for whois protection in your first year or for first few months. Here is a mail I received offering the service.

Hello,

My Name is Prk Aa

We are providing whois data in very low price

Daily more than 100,000 domains are registered

Reply Me with your contact number & skype id.

Warm Regards Prk Aa

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Re:An email list’s open rate drops over 50% after changes to... by throwanem on Friday July 07, 2017 @03:44PM (#14721459)

Lessons learned, I suppose...

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Re:An email list’s open rate drops over 50% after changes to... by Macha on Friday July 07, 2017 @02:58PM (#14721075)

Except it's not new at all. Since I first got my email on my primary domain in 2008 or so I've had admin@, postmaster@ etc., Along with the address in whois all being spammed.

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