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by hcurtiss 1742 days ago
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.
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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.
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?

No. Not all ccTLD's have restrictions. .es is open to anyone.
Wait, so the British Indian Ocean Territory isn't a booming tech startup hub?
A fun fact: Tuvalu's government gets like 10% of its total revenue from the .tv domain.
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.
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.
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.

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