stevenoel

Re: Users must upload a valid trip ticket (flight, train, bus)

What if I'm just driving there for a day/weekend/week? I see this app being especially useful for people in RVs, but they would have no flight/bus/train ticket to document their intent.

I'm not affiliated with OpenDNS (but I am a customer). I think you've misunderstood the process here.

Something you did (ie: a mass marketing campaign) made the filters think you're doing something that looks like phishing. There are a lot of reasons this can happen like actual recipients of your "marketing campaign" who reported you as phishing. In this case you're unlikely to just get whitelisted.

But it's not always that black-and-white. There are a variety of factors which go into assessing an org. Just some samples:

- How long has the domain been registered? - How much mail volume has been sent from a domain over time (and has there been a large deviation... for example if a domain typically sends 100s of emails per day for 5 years and then suddenly starts blasting emails in the millions per day this can be an indication of a problem) - Is there suspicious script (or perhaps specific scripts) running on the site - Is the site nothing but a URL redirection

These are just a few things that come to mind but there are many others. SO if you're blasting out emails by the thousand (or more) and you're redirecting people to your site which then installs some software surreptitiously and redirects people to another site invisibly, then yeah, your site probably looks like phishing. Compound this with reports from those email recipients who report your emails as phishing then OpenDNS is gonna list your site as phishing, too.

In my experience OpenDNS has been very responsive to challenges to their ratings at least from their customers. I'd say if the a perceived phishing site operator were the one to ask to be delisted they (OpenDNS) may not be inclined to do so... but if one of their customers (a paying OpenDNS customer) opened a support ticket they would likely get an answer. Not that the answer will necessarily be to whitelist your site, but they will look at the site and make a determination.

Walabot sounds interesting... but here's an article about similar tools: https://www.doityourself.com/stry/4-tools-that-can-see-throu...

I use UTM without any issue (running Windows 11)... but for what it's worth VMware announced both Workstation and Fusion are now free for Personal Use:

https://blogs.vmware.com/workstation/2024/05/vmware-workstat...

You can also buy a Commercial subscription for $120/year

As per usual, the answer is lawyers. There's a procedure where you can make a claim on a domain and take it over from the current owner... but I'm not sure that "I didn't renew it in time" is a good enough reason. You'll have better luck if this is a commercial related domain and you have some sort of legal claim (ie: trademark) over the name.

See section 4 of this article: https://www.godaddy.com/legal/agreements/domain-name-dispute...

You can also see this: https://www.godaddy.com/resources/skills/what-is-domain-squa...

I have no affiliation with GoDaddy - they just came up in some Google searches.

I can't vouch for this product as secure - but I got one as a gift and plugged it in to try it out. I installed it on a Guest VLAN so it doesn't have access to my whole home network.

https://www.myq.com/products/smart-garage-control

Iphone app to open/close the door remotely and you can see the status whenever you want.

I got an "Access blocked" error when trying to visit this site.

"Selldone utilizes a security service for protection against online threats. The activity you recently carried out activated our security measures. A variety of actions can cause this type of block, such as submitting specific words or phrases, executing a SQL command, or providing malformed data"

I may have confused the issue - I was answering in more generic terms. There are license agreements that are based on overall revenue.

I wasn't commenting on the OP's question of an open source license or whether anyone would pay based on the revenue created just from that tool.

Large software vendors usually have clauses in their contracts that allow them to audit your installation - and in some cases tie this audit to revenue reporting. If you're a public company this is all easily auditable, but even a private company can produce an accounting report. There's usually some level of trust involved unless there's reason to suspect you're "cooking the books" for your report.

There are several software companies whose license models are based on your revenue. Not "free until you make money", more like "$X to get a license and then additional costs based on your annual revenue".