Mailinator.com blocked? here's some alternatives!

Darren Dirt · December 06, 2010, 10:07:55 AM

You know when you want that free e-book or whatever, and using "name@mailinator.com" results in this annoying fail message?
http://www.aweber.com/form-sorry.htm?message=blocked&data=104843

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An Error Occurred

Notice:
The email address you submitted was previously blocked by the system from receiving information.

If you believe this is incorrect, please push the "back" button on your web browser and send the email address you submitted along with block ID #104843 to the website owner.

Alternately, you may push the "back" button and enter a different email address.

Thorin · December 06, 2010, 10:34:43 AM

Neat that there are more of these services popping up now.

Ever wonder what the mailinators of the world get out of providing their services? They get to see what services people use. I wonder if they mine that data at all.

Darren Dirt · December 06, 2010, 01:11:14 PM

Quote from: Thorin on December 06, 2010, 10:34:43 AM
Neat that there are more of these services popping up now.

Ever wonder what the mailinators of the world get out of providing their services? They get to see what services people use. I wonder if they mine that data at all.

I doubt there's any kind of "mining" of the email contents themselves.

I think it's a lot like ImageShack.us and similar, where the "gateway" to get to the service has ads, and a large enough % of those get clicked to justify a decent price for the advertisers.

Plus they probably have really really low storage/bandwidth costs considering the type of service they are providing.

Mr. Analog · December 06, 2010, 06:33:26 PM

Great list thanks!

I needed something like this a few days ago and was surprised to find mailinator gone

Darren Dirt · December 07, 2010, 07:59:58 AM

Quote from: Mr. Analog on December 06, 2010, 06:33:26 PM
Great list thanks!

I needed something like this a few days ago and was surprised to find mailinator gone

Musta been a temporary outage; Mailinator is still around, it's just that a lot of mailing-list services have a ban-list of domains, it's on there usually cuz it is so well-known. But a bunch of the ones in the list above are "unknown"

Darren Dirt · June 27, 2011, 12:10:19 PM

imo this thread should be a "sticky".

Mr. Analog · June 27, 2011, 12:21:34 PM

I disagree, I don't think it's something people need to see every day forever.

Darren Dirt · June 27, 2011, 01:52:18 PM

Quote from: Mr. Analog on June 27, 2011, 12:21:34 PM
I disagree, I don't think it's something people need to see every day forever.

The Omnipotent Lord Mod has spoken!

I guess I agree. Search was slow, is all, I got impatient

Lazybones · June 27, 2011, 04:39:37 PM

Quote from: Darren Dirt on June 27, 2011, 01:52:18 PM
Quote from: Mr. Analog on June 27, 2011, 12:21:34 PM
I disagree, I don't think it's something people need to see every day forever.

The Omnipotent Lord Mod has spoken!

I guess I agree. Search was slow, is all, I got impatient

If this is for personal reference, start using google bookmarks, xmarks, or the built in bookmark sync in Firefox or Chrome to track handy sites.

Darren Dirt · June 27, 2011, 05:29:14 PM

I just wanted to re-find this thread, cuz a handful of the sites listed were/are dead, and a few I hadn't even tried (just pasted from the webpage listed above). A lot of the mailing-list websites are starting to get a big list of the anon-email domains