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Checking your DKIM DNS record

Looking to validate a DKIM key? I’ve created an online tool to check and verify DKIM TXT records, and to determine their public key length.

DKIM KEY Checker

What is DKIM?

DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) is a method for email authentication designed to detect sender address forgery (spoofing) in email, which is often used in spam and phishing emails.

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Counting your top WordPress comment spam source IPs and URLs

A picture of a pizza with the word "SPAM" spelled out in Spam toppings
Photo Credit: Flickr/Jerry Pank

I launched a new WordPress blog for a client a few months ago and have been watching as comment spammers find the site and do what they do best, leave spam. As the first few spam comments started coming in I would flag them then manually copy/paste the source IPs and URLs to the built-in WordPress “Comment Blacklist“.

Over time I obviously started seeing some duplicates and I noticed bursts of spam from certain IPs or linking to specific spam URLs. I was curious to see what these top IPs and URLs were, as they would seem the best candidates to include in the blacklist.

So, let’s dig around in the database a bit…

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