The organization submitted a proposal to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) earlier this year, and expects to hear whether the application is approved later in the spring.
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Overseen by Spamhaus personnel, the solution work behind the scenes, through an arrangement between mail servers, that would leave it invisible to most email users. Operators of sending and receiving mail servers would register with the Anti-Spam Community Registry, using the sponsored TLD. Within the system, receiving-server operators will verify transmissions by looking up domain information to determine whether sending servers are spam-free, and whether emails were forged.
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Spamhaus is reportedly asking email server software developers to begin writing software for the new domain-based anti-spam system, so the organization can move quickly if the proposal is approved.
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Applicants to the Anti-Spam Community Registry must have a valid domain for at least six months, and are checked by postal mail and courier service, in a set of measures Spamhaus believes would eliminate most spammers. Companies looking to register .mail domains would pay an annual fee of $2,000 to help with the cost of verification.
