To block or not to block temporary email accounts?

[Rob Whisonant]

Curious what others think about this.

Many people are starting to use free temporary email accounts to subscribe to email lists to receive any free offers.

The ones that use the email accounts that last 10 minutes never see anything from you except the freebie and increase your bounce rates.

Worth blocking all free temporary email account domains or not?

I have no problem with honest freebie seekers signing up to my lists if they at least give me a small chance to convert their ways.

What's your 2 cents on this?

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[Rob Whisonant]

Originally Posted by Justin Kim

If its not a huge strain keep them on. It never hurts to add them. Even a 5% real people rate of temporary emails is better then not having any. I have a double opt in list thats in 4000's. About 1500 are temporary emails. After doing some seperate research my 1.5k email of temps about 25% are real people interested.

The temporary email accounts I am talking about are the ones that only last 10 minutes or so and are then no longer valid email accounts. So zero of 1500 would be zero.

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[Kim Standerline]

I think you answered your own question to be honest. if they only last 10 mins or so anyway then they are completely useless, especially when paying for the amount of email addy's you have on file.

Cheers
Kim

Originally Posted by Rob Whisonant

The temporary email accounts I am talking about are the ones that only last 10 minutes or so and are then no longer valid email accounts. So zero of 1500 would be zero.

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[John Taylor]

Tim,

It's almost impossible to keep up with all the new
services that keep popping up!

It can be very frustrating, but I'm not sure the
benefits of blocking such domains are worth the
time involved.

John

[Rob Whisonant]

I'm actually starting to think companies like Aweber may want to consider adding this as an option.

Have an option to block known temporary email addresses from joining your lists.

Could be a good selling point.

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[Traffic-Bug]

I have seen some email lists blocking temp email accounts like from tempinbox. But seriously nobody can hope to block such usage - there are many ways to get around such a limitation or blockage.

[Rob Whisonant]

Originally Posted by Traffic-Bug

I have seen some email lists blocking temp email accounts like from tempinbox. But seriously nobody can hope to block such usage - there are many ways to get around such a limitation or blockage.

Actually it would be fairly simple to put in place. The hard part would be finding and keeping up with all the temp email services.

You would just block all email coming from a list of domains that are used to provide temp emails.

If the domain you are using is listed in the ban from file, how would you get around it? The only way I could see is to find a temp email services that has not been listed in the ban file yet.

Please share what you know.

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