[tombert]

I was pretty excited when ICANN opened up a bunch of new domain extensions, but it does sometimes feel like "all these extensions are great if you don't plan on using them".

It was pretty cool that I managed to buy a bunch of domains like <my last name>.<new-tld>, but to be honest I really don't see myself using my .blackfriday domain for anything. For that matter, I think that (somewhat ironically) `my-last-name.email` would not be taken very seriously for a primary email address.

I use a `.app` domain for my personal email, which has its issues, but if I owned a business, there is no way on earth that I would be using anything but .com.

[dane-pgp]

> I really don't see myself using my .blackfriday domain for anything.

Well, there's about a 1 in 7 chance that it would be the perfect domain to host your obituary. I'm sure you could make a smart watch app which detects when/whether to make the site publicly visible.

(I apologise if this dark humour offends anyone.)

[hcurtiss]

I had .email for a while. Many shopping sites wouldn't actually let you use the address, presumably given some filter assuming that "email" was a fake address. Because my name ends with "ss", I switched over to .es, which conveniently is a country TLD (Spain). That's worked very well, though occasionally I'll get spam in Spanish, which cracks me up.

[toyg]

I have an .email and am slowly replacing my gmail address with it. 99% of services seem fine; occasionally there is some old laggard with broken validation schemes ("more than 3 letters for a tld? YOU MUST BE A HACKER!!!11!") but then it's likely you don't want to do business with such people.

[tombert]

That's a clever workaround, though doesn't the .es TLD requires some kind of tie to Spain?

I'm not sure how they could possibly enforce that, but in the purely technical sense, are you technically breaking rules?

[greenshackle2]

No. Not all ccTLD's have restrictions. .es is open to anyone.

[yissp]

Wait, so the British Indian Ocean Territory isn't a booming tech startup hub?

[createunderrate]

A fun fact: Tuvalu's government gets like 10% of its total revenue from the .tv domain.

[bink]

I wonder how well these new TLDs work for custom email if you use them with Google Workspaces / Google Apps for Domains or another reputable email hosting service. I've been using a custom domain (though a .net) for decades now and since I moved to Google Apps years ago I haven't had an issue being seen as spam.

[hcurtiss]

I use Fastmail. Delivery has been fine. My only challenge with .email was that some services wouldn't take the address as a valid email address.

[vel0city]

I use the free email provided with the domain hosting I got with a domain on one of these gTLDs. The only real issue I get are places that think the gTLD isn't a valid email domain, ensuring I always have to fall back to a more traditional email provider for some places.

Otherwise, deliverability-wise I haven't really experienced any issues. My mail is regularly delivered to the big email providers.

[throaway46546]

I haven't had many issues using .xyz with gsuite (with the exception of a couple of sites that didn't accept it as a valid email), but most of the people I email are @gmail.com.

[toyg]

I have .email and .cloud hosted on Office365 and they seem to work fine.

[3836293648]

You're obviously American. .com is not the only acceptable domain. Each country's tld is perfectly fine for anything in said country. In fact, it's really weird when companies here in Sweden use a .com domain instead of a .se

[SilverRed]

It's kind of a pain to use .com.au because you have to register an ABN and have a company / yourself be directly related to that name. So I can't just come up with any cool domain name I want and create a .com.au for myself without legally registering that name too.

[slj]

There's a little-known .au TLD just for this purpose- .id.au, and I've found it's still quite easy to snag a ${name}.id.au (No ABN required, AFAIK).

[weinzierl]

I secured <my last name>.name many years ago. Must have been early 2000's (.name is around for a long time). It wasn't exactly cheap and it is not one of the super cheap domains now. The registry seemed to have a relatively strict policy regarding who can own a .name (not sure if still true, haven't checked again since like 2002). So, the best preconditions to keep their space clean, it seemed...

Yet I gave up on it for the same reasons mentioned in the article: It has a terrible reputation and seems to randomly be blocked here and there.

[rileyphone]

I use `.art` and have had no problems thus far.

[vmception]

crypto space is making use of the new ICANN approved TLDs pretty rapidly

their customers are on discord, twitter, telegram and wechat so email delivery is not a factor

the entire sites and revenue drivers are entirely client side (with the "servers" being the smart contract methods stored on the nearest blockchain nodes, this has only one initial upload cost but functions similarly to lambda functions except the users pay for the computations), when the domain is down or blocked, the user can interact directly with the nearest node hosting the website's associated smart contracts, if they are interested enough

this is working really well for a lot of organizations, and it has been this way for several years now

makes lean SaaS services even leaner, and allows them to grow even faster - as long as their customer base is already a crypto native. I haven't seen any organization succeed if they have to sell their customer on some crypto browser extension.

[peter_l_downs]

not sure why you're being downvoted -- one of the coolest parts of the web3 world is that you don't need a server, you just need static web hosting. This means that besides blockchain network / router speed (most transactions get broadcast through a few friendly or public nodes for each network, and each network has different transaction speeds) interacting with a web3 application is often extremely fast. The best web3 apps use cloudflare or some other equivalent and deliver static html/js/css from the edge https://twitter.com/simplyianm/status/1437506136568041472?s=...

And, yes, a lot of the new web3 projects use alternative tlds because they're cheap and catchy. They also tend to use food-related nouns as project/coin names because branding is hard and a lot of them haven't been used by companies in the past.

[vmception]

very few people understand the primary market in the crypto space, as they only know the speculation side and don't like that.

many of the people with the capacity to understand the primary market or revenue generating side are too busy hating that "crypto" gained an additional context that is more widely used than their enthusiast obscure cryptography interest and they use every comment section to let everyone know that when they aren't busy weeping under their Alan Turing shrines before they have flashbacks of boarding the bus at 7am to work for an ad conglomerate, a life they ironically respect more.