I just got an email from Typepad stating that they will be retiring their anti-spam service on March 1, 2013:

To make sure your anti-spam needs continue to be met, we've partnered with Impermium (http://impermium.com), the premier provider of social spam protection services. Impermium works with some of the largest sites on the web and are respected for their customer service, so we know you’ll be in good hands. There will be no interruption of service and in the near term you do not need to do anything, as we will automatically route your requests to Impermium. In most cases going forward, they will be the ones working with you to combat comment spam. For high-volume and enterprise sites, Imperium will reach out to you to discuss paid products that may best suit your needs.

We'll get in touch with you before the transition takes place, but if you have any questions or need additional assistance, please let us know via our Help system or visit: http://impermium.com/typepad-antispam

Just wanted to give the devs a heads up so that they could consider replacing Typepad with Imperium.

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Routh commented

This is now starting to take effect I think. I was just trying to get Typepad working and the API key refused to save. Antispam kept claiming it was invalid. I even tried getting Typepad to issue a new API key and it still failed.

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wxman commented

Thanks. I couldn't figure out why mine kept failing.

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kmonty
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Title: Typepad being retired » Remove Typepad
Category: Feature request » Task
Issue summary: View changes
Priority: Normal » Major

Typepad's Antispam service no longer exists, and thus needs to be removed from the module.

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bbc
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Location Madison, WI
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FYI, Impermium does seem to have picked up where Typepad left off. Not sure it's possible to set up new accounts with them, but the service is still up and running and being supported by them. Please do not remove this option from the module just yet. ;)

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damienmckenna
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Title: Remove Typepad » Remove Typepad (maybe?)
Priority: Major » Normal

This needs looking into, at the very least references to TypePad AntiSpam will need to be updated, and possibly make some API changes.

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bbc
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Perhaps I spoke too soon. On March 3, I got an email from Typepad that included the following:

However, Impermium has been acquired by Google, and will be shutting down their service on March 31, 2014.

Unfortunate to see this going away. While not perfect, it's been a pretty good solution for us on a number of smaller sites, especially when compared to pricing from Askimet, Defensio and Mollom. FYI, they're recommending that current users of the impermium solution switch to Askimet.

  • cfinke committed 666cb32 on 7.x-1.x 
    Issue #1909996: Remove Typepad (maybe?)

Remove Typepad Anti-spam as an...
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Status: Active » Fixed

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed - issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.