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A bad actor is using the sender reputation of other brands to send their spam.

Subdomain Squatters are Threatening Your Email Sender Reputation

An unfortunate reality of email sender reputation is the ability for it to be weaponized. Of course, as senders you can do a whole bunch of things to protect yourself from malicious activity, and the effect is not only protection, but a positive sender reputation. Mailbox providers (MBPs) use reputation information to protect their own […]
DKIM Replay Attacks

DKIM Replay Attacks: Preventive Measures to Protect Email Deliverability

Old spamming techniques are making a comeback. See how bad actors are stealing sender reputation to send spam, and what you can do about it.

by Brian Godiksen - February 14, 2022
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Top-Level Do(n’t)mains: A Cautionary Tale About Choosing the Right Sending Domain for Your Email Program

SocketLabs’ Brian Godiksen and Campaign Monitor’s Travis Hazlewood look into the increasingly prevalent issue of top-level domains causing major deliverability issues.

by Brian Godiksen - December 10, 2021

How to Check Your Domain Reputation with Google Postmaster Tools

Learn how to use Google Postmaster Tools to check your domain reputation and other valuable email metrics to help stay on top of your email and improve your deliverability

by Brian Godiksen - August 17, 2021
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Secure Engagement Tracking Solves Chrome Image Security Issues

SocketLabs offers a unique solution to allow simultaneous white-labeling and HTTPS link security for email

by Brian Godiksen - November 9, 2020
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Why Microsoft’s Changes will Cause a Ripple Effect in Email Authentication

While it is widely known that Microsoft has been working on the logic around email authentication….

by Brian Godiksen - April 24, 2020
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Email Authentication In 2020

Through the first quarter of 2020 there have been several developments in the email world that impact email authentication

by Brian Godiksen - April 24, 2020

Top 3 Benefits of DMARC

Today we’re going to talk a little about the benefits of DMARC. What is DMARC? DMARC is an email technology that is really cool. It’s essentially an email authentication protocol that is designed to give email domain owners the ability to protect their domain from unauthorized use. DMARC email authentication is really valuable to companies […]

by Brian Godiksen - April 23, 2019

Best Practices with Sender Policy Framework (SPF)

What is SPF? Sender Policy Framework (SPF) is one of the primary means of authenticating email messages as they transit the Internet. The importance of SPF is growing as additional technologies, such as DMARC, are built on top of the standard. As more domains implement SPF records, greater value is derived from the framework for anti-spam […]

by Brian Godiksen - September 14, 2017

How to Ensure That Forwarded Messages Arrive at the Destination Mailbox

Auto-Forwarding is a frequently used mailbox rule to move messages along from a secondary mailbox to a primary mailbox. But, this in itself has some shortcomings, such as forwarding spam messages along or failing to forward messages along due to security policies put in place by the original sender of the message. We have in […]

by Brian Godiksen - June 15, 2017