> We should have known better from the beginning as we previously founded Outreach.io, the leading sales engagement platform, making us no strangers to email deliverability. In the early days of Outreach, we had utilized some short .xyz domains to use for shortened links in emails sent on behalf of our customers.
Translation: We used .xyz for spamming, of course .xyz is associated with spam.
From that spamhaus link .xyz has a lower bad percentage (4.4%) than .com (5.1%) and .net (10.5%).
Maybe because .xyz is blacklisted, spamhaus doesn't see them.
Re:The Perils of an .xyz Domain
by dredmorbius on Thursday September 16, 2021 @03:20PM
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What are its positives?
Seems like an easy solution is to simply start spamming from .coms like we had to back in my day.
Then I immediately got it. The amount of spam emails from .xyz .click .faith .top is huge. And with every email comes from them, we have to run spam scanner, which isn't cheap. So we have to score those TLDs more sensitive.
https://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/tlds/ can give some insight about spam rate by tld.
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