AOL Finds Spam Strategy, Loses DomainKeys

Since Yahoo first proposed its DomainKeys authentication standard for email (DKIM), AOL has played coy.

That strategy has apparently served the uber-ISP well, as it has been extended indefinitely.

In a standing-room-only webinar courting direct marketers, AOL speaker Nicholas Graham was asked when the firm will get around to adopting DKIM's cryptographic-based technology. Christine Blank of DMNews reports Graham responded, "We will have to wait and see. The facts are still out."

The facts for which AOL is oh-so-patiently waiting appear to be increasingly unlikely... Industry adoption.

While many experts enthuse over the advantages of authentication, those charged with setting up their systems for compliance seem to be emphatically... disinterested.