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How to check domain age with RDAP and when to review instead of block.</description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>fraud</category><category>signup</category><category>api</category><category>policy</category></item><item><title>Are .edu, .ac.uk and .gov emails business emails? Education and government addresses explained</title><link>https://isbusinessemail.com/blog/education-and-government-emails</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://isbusinessemail.com/blog/education-and-government-emails</guid><description>School, university and government addresses like .edu, .ac.uk and .gov are organizational, not personal. How they are classified and when it matters.</description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>business-email</category><category>basics</category><category>sales</category><category>lead-scoring</category></item><item><title>Email relay addresses: privaterelay.appleid.com, mozmail.com and duck.com explained</title><link>https://isbusinessemail.com/blog/email-relay-addresses</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://isbusinessemail.com/blog/email-relay-addresses</guid><description>Relay addresses on privaterelay.appleid.com, mozmail.com or duck.com forward to a hidden real inbox. How they work and how B2B sign-ups should handle them.</description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>signup</category><category>b2b</category><category>policy</category><category>disposable-email</category></item><item><title>Email typo domains: catch gmial.com and suggest the fix</title><link>https://isbusinessemail.com/blog/email-typo-domains</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://isbusinessemail.com/blog/email-typo-domains</guid><description>Email typo detection compares the domain with popular providers and offers a fix, like gmial.com to gmail.com. How it works, what typos cost, how to show it.</description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>signup</category><category>free-email</category><category>engineering</category><category>api</category></item><item><title>Free trial abuse: the email signals that catch it, and where they stop</title><link>https://isbusinessemail.com/blog/free-trial-abuse-email-signals</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://isbusinessemail.com/blog/free-trial-abuse-email-signals</guid><description>Stop repeat free-trial sign-ups with email signals: disposable and relay inboxes, +tag and Gmail-dot variants, typo domains, new domains and a blocklist.</description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>fraud</category><category>signup</category><category>disposable-email</category><category>policy</category></item><item><title>Lookalike and punycode email domains: spotting homographs at sign-up</title><link>https://isbusinessemail.com/blog/lookalike-and-punycode-domains</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://isbusinessemail.com/blog/lookalike-and-punycode-domains</guid><description>Lookalike domains imitate gmail.com or paypal.com with Cyrillic letters, digits or rn for m. 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How to deduplicate sign-ups with a key, without blocking anyone.</description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>signup</category><category>fraud</category><category>engineering</category><category>api</category></item><item><title>Role-based email addresses: should you accept info@ at sign-up?</title><link>https://isbusinessemail.com/blog/role-based-email-addresses</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://isbusinessemail.com/blog/role-based-email-addresses</guid><description>Role-based email addresses like info@ and sales@ belong to a team, not a person. When to allow, review or block them at sign-up, in marketing and in sales.</description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>signup</category><category>b2b</category><category>policy</category><category>lead-scoring</category></item><item><title>Shared inbox vs group email: how to tell from the address</title><link>https://isbusinessemail.com/blog/shared-inboxes-and-google-groups</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://isbusinessemail.com/blog/shared-inboxes-and-google-groups</guid><description>A shared inbox is one mailbox a team answers from; a group forwards to many members. Why DNS can&apos;t tell them apart, and what the address name can.</description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>business-email</category><category>microsoft-365</category><category>google-workspace</category><category>api</category></item><item><title>Business email vs personal email: what&apos;s different and why it matters</title><link>https://isbusinessemail.com/blog/business-email-vs-personal-email</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://isbusinessemail.com/blog/business-email-vs-personal-email</guid><description>Business email vs personal email: how they differ in ownership, security, offboarding, deliverability, cost and integrations, and when each is fine.</description><pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>business-email</category><category>basics</category><category>b2b</category></item><item><title>Check for a business email in JavaScript, Python and PHP</title><link>https://isbusinessemail.com/blog/check-business-email-in-code</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://isbusinessemail.com/blog/check-business-email-in-code</guid><description>Check for a business email in JavaScript, Python and PHP: a free-provider list plus MX lookup you can run today, its pitfalls, and calling an API safely.</description><pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>engineering</category><category>api</category><category>signup</category></item><item><title>Email verification vs email classification</title><link>https://isbusinessemail.com/blog/email-verification-vs-classification</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://isbusinessemail.com/blog/email-verification-vs-classification</guid><description>Email verification vs email classification: one checks whether an address can receive mail, the other what kind of address it is. When you need both.</description><pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>verification</category><category>signup</category><category>engineering</category></item><item><title>How to find someone&apos;s business email address</title><link>https://isbusinessemail.com/blog/find-a-business-email-address</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://isbusinessemail.com/blog/find-a-business-email-address</guid><description>How to find someone&apos;s business email address: company pages, email patterns, search operators and finder tools, then how to check it before you send.</description><pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>sales</category><category>b2b</category><category>business-email</category></item><item><title>Free email providers: the list and what counts as personal</title><link>https://isbusinessemail.com/blog/free-email-providers</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://isbusinessemail.com/blog/free-email-providers</guid><description>A list of free email providers worldwide, from Gmail and Outlook to GMX, Yandex, QQ and Naver, plus ISP and privacy mailboxes, and what counts as personal.</description><pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>free-email</category><category>lists</category><category>basics</category></item><item><title>How to tell if an email is a business email</title><link>https://isbusinessemail.com/blog/how-to-tell-if-an-email-is-a-business-email</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://isbusinessemail.com/blog/how-to-tell-if-an-email-is-a-business-email</guid><description>How to tell if an email is a business email: read the domain, compare it with free provider lists, look up MX records and rule out disposable addresses.</description><pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>business-email</category><category>basics</category><category>dns</category><category>mx</category></item><item><title>Lead scoring by email domain</title><link>https://isbusinessemail.com/blog/lead-scoring-by-email-domain</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://isbusinessemail.com/blog/lead-scoring-by-email-domain</guid><description>Lead scoring by email domain: why the domain is a strong signal, an example scoring model, routing to sales, CRM enrichment, pitfalls and measuring it.</description><pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>sales</category><category>lead-scoring</category><category>b2b</category></item><item><title>How to require a work email at sign-up (without losing good users)</title><link>https://isbusinessemail.com/blog/require-work-email-at-signup</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://isbusinessemail.com/blog/require-work-email-at-signup</guid><description>How to require a work email at sign-up: choose block, review or allow per category, write error messages that work, fix typos, plan exceptions, fail open.</description><pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>signup</category><category>b2b</category><category>policy</category></item><item><title>What is a business email? 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