http://www.circleid.com/ Postings from Suresh Ramasubramanian on CircleID en Copyright 2008, unless where otherwise noted. 2008-06-06T04:22:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/hk_the_most_unsafe_domains http://www.circleid.com/posts/hk_the_most_unsafe_domains More...]]> 2008-06-06T04:22:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/domain_name_portfolios_worth http://www.circleid.com/posts/domain_name_portfolios_worth recent article in Domain Name Wire, "shares of domain name company Tucows are down over 15% in early trading after announcing earnings." Elliot Noss, President and CEO of Tucows, says: "We delivered solid financial performance in the second quarter, which benefited from the sale of a block of 2,500 domain names from our portfolio." More...]]> 2007-10-23T21:03:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/hong_kong_anti_spam_law http://www.circleid.com/posts/hong_kong_anti_spam_law OFTA (in 2004) and then CITB (in 2006) issued requests for public comment about a proposed UEM (Unsolicited Electronic Messaging) bill to be introduced in Hong Kong, for the purpose of regulating unsolicited email, telephone and fax solicitations. We're a large (worldwide) provider of email and spam filtering - but we're based in Hong Kong, and any regulation there naturally gets tracked by us rather more actively than laws elsewhere. We sent in our responses to both these agencies... The bill is becoming law now - and most of it looks good... There's one major fly in the ointment though... More...]]> 2007-06-03T09:33:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/eff_use_of_propaganda_karl_rove http://www.circleid.com/posts/eff_use_of_propaganda_karl_rove DearAOL's blog, by EFF activist coordinator Danny O'Brien, is titled "The Shakedown Begins". In short, Danny receives email from overstock.com on an AOL mailbox -- email that he apparently paid overstock $29.95 to receive. And that email arrives with Goodmail certification that AOL recognizes and flags as such. Danny seems to think this is not the sort of email that should be certified by Goodmail, and that AOL should not suddenly turn on Goodmail certification. Suddenly? More...]]> 2006-05-12T07:20:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/eff_on_goodmail_further_confusing_an_already_confused_issue http://www.circleid.com/posts/eff_on_goodmail_further_confusing_an_already_confused_issue piece on the EFF website seems to be a bit of a pastiche, with elements taken out of various articles (some outright wrong, some merely misinformed) that have been doing the rounds of the media for quite a while now about Goodmail. She started off comparing AOL and Goodmail with the old email hoax about congress taxing email. That same line was used in a CircleID post by Matt Blumberg, CEO & Chairman of Returnpath... Various other quotes from different places - Richard Cox from Spamhaus on CNN for example. However a lot of the quotes in those articles are being based on wrong or out of context assumptions, starting with one that goes "AOL is going to remove all its existing whitelists and force people to use Goodmail". More...]]> 2006-02-10T19:46:16-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/objections_to_xxx_attention_in_high_places http://www.circleid.com/posts/objections_to_xxx_attention_in_high_places More...]]> 2005-08-16T07:48:29-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/actions_required_by_developing_economies_against_spam http://www.circleid.com/posts/actions_required_by_developing_economies_against_spam More...]]> 2005-05-29T09:38:07-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/port_25_blocking_or_fix_smtp_and_leave_port_25_alone_for_the_sake_of_spam http://www.circleid.com/posts/port_25_blocking_or_fix_smtp_and_leave_port_25_alone_for_the_sake_of_spam More...]]> 2005-04-17T10:27:00-08:00