Lack of interest Ban registrations from gTLDs and/or whitelist email domains

[JackieChun]

Given the huge list of new gTLDs that's only continuing to expand, forum admins should be able to make pre-emptive strikes against spammers who use cheap, new gTLD registrations exclusively for spam.

I am yet to see any non-spam registration from .pw, .ws., .host, .online, .pizza etc. We should be able to ban all that weird crap without wasting time banning individual domains or gTLDs.

Separate but related to this issue, we should also be able to ban registrations from ALL emails except a number of whitelisted domains. On certain forums, it would make sense to whitelist Gmail, .edu, and maybe a few other providers and ban everything else.

 

[Ozzy47]

we should also be able to ban registrations from ALL emails except a number of whitelisted domains

My free addon does that,

[OzzModz] Email Whitelist

Simple addon that will allow you to specify allowed email clients. Users will only be able to use the email clients you specify in the addon options. When a user enters a email client that is not whitelisted, they get an error message...

xenforo.com

 

[djbaxter]

Given the huge list of new gTLDs that's only continuing to expand, forum admins should be able to make pre-emptive strikes against spammers who use cheap, new gTLD registrations exclusively for spam.

I am yet to see any non-spam registration from .pw, .ws., .host, .online, .pizza etc. We should be able to ban all that weird crap without wasting time banning individual domains or gTLDs.

You can already do this (blacklist) using the ban emails feature in core XF 2.2.x.

AdminCP >> Users >> User discipline >> Banned emails

If you prefer the whitelist approach, there's the addon by @Ozzy47 he posted above.

 

[Ozzy47]

You can already do this using the ban emails feature in core XF 2.2.x.

Technically yes, but if I only wanted the top email providers, I'd have to add tens of thousands of domains that way.

 

[djbaxter]

Technically yes, but if I only wanted the top email providers, I'd have to add tens of thousands of domains that way.

Edited my post above while you were posting.

For the forums I admin, there really aren't tens of thousands and you can use wildcards. I didn't add them all at once, either, but gradually 1 or 2 or 3 at a time as they showed up. And once you have a list, you can of course export it and import it to other forums.

I tried your addon, @Ozzy47, and I'm not knocking it at all, but for the way I manage the forums in my case it turned out to be less work to use the built-in XF feature. That isn't necessarily going to be true for other admins, of course.

 

[Ozzy47]

I tried your addon, @Ozzy47, and I'm not knocking it at all, but for the way I manage the forums in my case it turned out to be less work to use the built-in XF feature. That isn't necessarily going to be true for other admins, of course.

Yup, different strokes for different folks.

 

[JackieChun]

I'm pretty sure "ban email" has existed since XenForo 1.x.

 

[djbaxter]

I'm pretty sure "ban email" has existed since XenForo 1.x.

Could be. I only started using it in XF 2.x and I specified 2.2.x above because of the directions I posted for the settings (which may have changed in 2.2 - not sure).

 

[wedgar]

Yup, there would be a few top level domains I'd like to block