Banning domain names and email domains

[Shawn Gossman]

Do any of you ban entire domain names from being posted on your forum and/or entire email domains (or TLDs) from registering on your forum?

Do you think this is a good way to mitigate spam and abuse by banning domains and email domains/TLDs on a forum?

I've banned many of the new gTLDs from a local cycling forum because I know most local cyclists are either using a gmail, hotmail, or yahoo account. No one is using a .xyz email account around here. Once I banned the newer gTLDs, my spam registrations went from about 100 a week to 2 a week.

 

[Heatman]

I think it's a very good thing to ban such email and domains because they are usually been used to create account which will be used to spam either a blog or forum. This is the reason why I don't approve any account that is created using a temporary email.

 

[Shawn Gossman]

Yeah. I'm seeing an influx of Gmail email domain spam accounts as well.

 

[Tracy]

On my XFH site I uploaded the exported banned email list I use.
It was created over a few years using what were found to be spammer emails using multiple domains that would not typically be joining sites (company domains primarily).

Banned email list

This is a list of banned emails that I have accumulated over the years. These are either domains or related individual related email accounts that I have se...

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Sadly, unless it's been fixed in Xenforo, you will have issues importing this list into your current one if you have any duplicates in it. The old import routine was apparently too stupid to do be able to do a clean merge and odds are it's not been a high priority fix on Xenforo's massive list of things to do.