Whitelisting, taken to the next step

The Karmasphere project is an “open platform for sharing reputation data”. Amongst other data sources, it uses dnswl.org data to determine the reputation of IP addresses and domain names.

Karmasphere is still in beta, but looks quite promising – and it started to use dnswl.org data in a way we didn’t even think was possible, namely based on the domains we publish alongside the individual network ranges. As a consequence, we will slightly enhance the data we process for dnswl.org to put additional focus on domain names.

No changes are required for the current IP-based usage &ndash we will continue to manage and add to this data as we have since November 2006.