SpamCopis anemail spamreporting service, allowing recipients of unsolicited bulk or commercial email to report IP addresses found by SpamCop's analysis to be senders of the spam to the abuse reporting addresses of those IP addresses. SpamCop uses these reports to compile alist of computers sending spamcalled the "SpamCop Blocking List" or "SpamCop Blacklist" (SCBL).[1]
| Company type | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1998 |
| Founder | Julian Haight |
| Parent |
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| Website | spamcop |
History
editSpamCop was founded by Julian Haight in 1998 as an individual effort. As the reporting service became more popular, staff were added and the SCBL became more useful.[2]It has commonly been the target ofDDoSattacks andlawsuitsfrom organizations listed in the SCBL.[3]
Email security companyIronPort Systemsannounced its acquisition of SpamCop on November 24, 2003,[4]but it remained independently run by Julian Haight. A small staff and volunteer help in its forum.
IronPort agreed to become a division ofCisco Systemson January 4, 2007,[5]effectively making SpamCop a Cisco service. Julian Haight left approximately two years after the Cisco acquisition.[6]
SpamCop views itself as an attempt to stop spam without the necessity of governmental intervention, but because it lacks the power of a government or large ISP, it may have greater difficulty dealing with spammers' expertise as well as the largebot networksthat they control and that they used to crippleBlue Securitywith a massiveDDoSattack.[7]
SpamCop previously provided paid email accounts through Corporate Email Services (CES). On August 9, 2014, in an email to email account holders, CES announced that "[a]s of September 30, 2014 (Tuesday) 6pm ET, the current SpamCop Email service will be converted to email forwarding-only with spam filtered by SpamCop for all existing SpamCop Email users" and that "SpamCop will no longer provide IMAP or POP service [after that date]."[8]
As of 10:31:56 UTC on 31 January 2021, the domain and all sub-domains of spamcop.net resolved to a domain parking service due to the domain being expired. Later that day the domain was renewed and the service was again running. The outage resulted in messages being rejected due to the blacklist DNS entries all directing to the domain parking service.[9]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^Harbarczyk, Izabela (2023-06-29)."What is Spamcop and How Does it Work?".Usebouncer.Retrieved2024-10-23.
- ^"Spamcop SCBL".Mailgun.
- ^"SpamCop.net - Beware of cheap imitations".spamcop.net.Retrieved2024-10-23.
- ^"Acquisitions".Cisco.Retrieved2024-10-23.
- ^"Cisco Midyear Security Report Highlights Weak Links in Increasingly Dynamic Threat Landscape".newsroom.cisco.Retrieved2024-10-23.
- ^D'Minion, Don (9 July 2012)."Reporting problems today? - SpamCop Discussion Forums entry 81639".Archivedfrom the original on 17 March 2024.Retrieved17 March2024.
- ^Hansell, Saul (9 November 2003)."Spammers Can Run but They Can't Hide".The New York Times.p. 1.Retrieved28 December2010.
- ^"SpamCop Email Service Changes - SpamCop Discussion".Archived fromthe originalon 2014-08-12.Retrieved2014-08-10.
- ^"Countless emails wrongly blocked as spam after Cisco's SpamCop failed to renew domain name at the weekend".The Register.Retrieved2020-02-02.
External links
edit- SpamCop Official site(Note: There are copycat sites at similar URLs with otherTLDs.)
- SpamCop Forumsandnewsgroups
- SCBL dispute resolutionfrom theFAQ
- TheSURBLis an RBL based on SpamCop data to block or tag spam based on URIs contained within the message body.