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by deevin9 2683 days ago
I don't know if it still does it, but mailinator used to have a neat feature where it would "detect" bots trying to scrape its list of domains and start injecting legit ones like hotmail.com/gmail.com
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you don't need to scrape anything. you check provided email for mailinator's MX records\IPs.
This is probably much more difficult and taxing. On every signup, you're now checking MX records and IP's, not just looking at a string. And Mailinator can change this information regularly too if they choose.