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That's no more censorship than spam filtering is censorship of email. 

They do need to be a bit less overbroad, perhaps, but given the horrible state of infestation that .info has (a few ccTLDs are in even worse state, I guess) - I can kind of understand why they did this.

Why do spammers like .info so much? Probably because domains come live instantly, or perhaps because these are cheaper than .com, and/or there's a registrar for .info that is particularly lax in its policies so more spammer domains pile on there [not sure of all the reasons why]

Suresh Ramasubramanian said:

That's no more censorship than spam filtering is censorship of email. 

They do need to be a bit less overbroad, perhaps, but given the horrible state of infestation that .info has (a few ccTLDs are in even worse state, I guess) - I can kind of understand why they did this.

Why do spammers like .info so much? Probably because domains come live instantly, or perhaps because these are cheaper than .com, and/or there's a registrar for .info that is particularly lax in its policies so more spammer domains pile on there [not sure of all the reasons why]

There's a lot of FUD with regards .info & spam

From addresses are more often than not faked, so looking at the sites "linked to" from within spam emails for the last 24 hours.

TLD Percentages

.com...64
.cn.....12
.net....10
.biz.....4
.de......3
.org.....2
.hk......2
.mobi...1
.ru......1
info.....1

Sample size 4080

gpmgroup.com said:

There's a lot of FUD with regards .info & spam

Well, I do agree that right now .info is not the flavor of the month that it was wrt spam domains - or .biz either.  But make no mistake, it was all that and then more, not more than a year back.

Lots of cctld domains becoming more popular now (.cn for instance, and a ton of domains all registered through a single rogue sponsoring registrar seems to be a recurring pattern)

That still doesnt do anything for the spam filtering = censorship meme the EFF keeps trotting out every once in a while.