Disposable Domain Detection
Every time you sign up for a service, make a purchase online or fill out a job application, the form asks for an email address. This can add up to a lot of emails over the course of your lifetime, leading to spam, sales messages and a full inbox. Using disposable domain detection(DEA) to sign up for services helps people avoid spam and take control over their inbox.
How do I know if a domain is disposable?
DEAs can be created on websites such as yopmail, smtp.io and others that allow users to quickly create a temporary email address for one-time use. The email isn’t automatically forwarded to a user’s personal account, and usually becomes unavailable after a short amount of time. These accounts are popular among software developers and others who work with new technology and want to protect their privacy.
These same disposable addresses can also be used in scams and fraud attacks such as phishing, ransomware and business email compromise. This is especially true for domains relating to financial services, such as banking, insurance and loan services. The recent coronavirus pandemic has seen hundreds of finance-related DEAs being used in phishing and other suspicious activities.
There are a few ways to detect DEAs, including searching for disposable email domains lists on repository management sites such as GitHub. Another method is to check an email address or domain against a list of DEAs integrated into an email verification API or lookup tool. This will verify the email against an up-to-date list of DEAs and can return a risk score for the address or domain in milliseconds.
Every time you sign up for a service, make a purchase online or fill out a job application, the form asks for an email address. This can add up to a lot of emails over the course of your lifetime, leading to spam, sales messages and a full inbox. Using disposable domain detection(DEA) to sign…