[julian_t]

"Email addresses always have a 'normal' TLD"

I registered a ".consulting" domain for my little company when they became available, and it has proved highly problematic ever since. Strangely (or perhaps not) it seems to be the larger players that have the most problems. I would at lest have expected ISPs and comms companies to keep up with this (looking at you, Three)

[dijit]

I once worked for a company that had a .company gTLD but not the .com

It was also a bloody nuisance. Spam filters were one thing but there were so many validation forms that failed.

Every reasonable variation of the company name as a .com/.net/.org was taken, including <companyname>company.com

Ugh, what a nightmare.

Domain holders are the landed gentry of tomorrow if we keep this up.

[merelysounds]

> Every reasonable variation of the company name as a .com/.net/.org was taken, including <companyname>company.com

Even then it seems better to come up with a different prefix, or suffix (or both!), just to stay with ‘.com’.

Of course hindsight is 20/20 and I did the same, my personal homepage used to have a ‘.xyz’ address.

[account42]

> Every reasonable variation of the company name as a .com/.net/.org was taken, including <companyname>company.com

That also means that customers WILL confuse your company with others in non-domain contexts so perhaps it's a good idea to choose a more unique company name.

[account42]

While on the sending site you should accept any domain, it's IMO irresponsible to use nuTLDs for pretty much anything as they are privately owned and you have zero recourse when the owner decides to change the deal on you.

[thih9]

Another anecdote, I no longer use my ‘.email’ email address for the same reason.

[KurSix]

The annoying bit is that owning a domain should make email feel more stable and professional