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by croutonwagon 1217 days ago
They are artificially necessary in some cases.

I have a personal .com and a gTLD based domain. THis is mostly to retain control of mailflow (I use workspace but can always move it, and have in the past)

The number of services/online forms that wont accept a .email domain is still very high.

I would imagine at a business level this would be equally difficult, even if its just for B2B type transactions/relationships.
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ipython 1217 days ago
Same. I have a .family domain which is great, but about 1/3rd of the registration flows claim it’s an “invalid email address”. I have an older .org to fall back on, but it would be nice to use one domain for everything.
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bombcar 1217 days ago
Imagine spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to get your own TLD and then discovering that "username@tld" emails just won't be accepted by basically anything. RIP username@google :(
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input_sh 1217 days ago
That is indeed true for gTLDs (I've experienced it with .online), but from my experience never the case for ccTLDs. Maybe .tk that is (or was) handed out for free, but I never had any problem with ccTLDs I've owned (.me, .dj, .sh).

So, .com isn't the only silver bullet, and from what I can tell from that chart, only .app and .tech may be somewhat affected.

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croutonwagon 1217 days ago
interesting. Just registered a couple ccTLD's.

I have a .com. But its super long and I dont really like it. Its also the primary domain in workspace since i have had it since gsuite was free but before they closed the free tier registration ~2012.

Now that I'm a paid user (by forced attrition) im looking to honestly just migrate the TLD of the workspace to something less cumbersome to type.

.email is really the primary at this point.

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davchana 1217 days ago
.in is rejected by discover for email address, its a cctld. .us was fine.
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BiteCode_dev 1217 days ago
Can confirm. My .email is regularly reject even by my own country administration.
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davchana 1217 days ago
This. Discover bank literally said email ending with .in is not a valid email. As if no Indian moves to US & still keeps his own domain.in email address. It happily accepted .us email.
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