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Re: Ask HN: Is it a bad idea to make an email domain with an uncommon TLD?

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Post by outcoldman »

Raed667 wrote: post #22

I have a firstname.email address and it works pretty well 99.99% of time. Very few forms have rejected it because their regex accepts only 2 or 3 characters. And one e-commerce company called my phone after passing an order because I broke their billing system even though everything worked fine on the customer side. I'm using Proton with a catch all inbox, and have less spam than on my Gmail !

Same thing, I have been using .email for maybe 10 years I believe at this point. It works 99% of the time, I just have a few backup emails like “name.[email|net|me]”, so usually when the system does not accept “.email”, I just give “.net” instead.

Re: Ask HN: Is it a bad idea to make an email domain with an uncommon TLD?

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Post by bradchoate »

I registered a .email address for my surname when I saw it was available. However, I never ended up using it. I just imagined if I ever told anyone my email address was "first name at last name dot email", they'd probably think I didn't really understand how email worked or was trying to give them a fake address.

Re: Ask HN: Is it a bad idea to make an email domain with an uncommon TLD?

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Post by lobito25 »

Group_B wrote: post #30
viraptor wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Not worth What's the "worth" part mean here?

Your email may get rejected if it’s not one of the usual ones. May have issues receiving mail. My company for example blocks over 100 different TLDs. Don’t even look at reputation of domain, just automatic block. Not worth dealing with that imo.

Your company sucks.

Re: Ask HN: Is it a bad idea to make an email domain with an uncommon TLD?

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Post by bluedino »

mastazi wrote: post #26
amcrouch wrote: post #15

I brought a .ch (swiss, worked for my name) domain and have only ever had a small handful of bad sites that "validate" via checking for .com. I would say if you're going to make it a lifetime domain then perhaps something that works in a personal and professional setting might be worth considering.

I would say that .ch is not an uncommon tld at all, it is the national tld of a country and it has existed for decades. I also think that the issue you had with forms requiring .com must have been an amateur made website because I can't imagine someone who develops for a living doing that type of mistake.

I would argue for most people, anything other than a .com, .edu could be "uncommon". I have had people question .net or .org...

American perspective, I'm assuming people in Europe are used to things like the individual country domains. But it seems rare to even see .us here...

Re: Ask HN: Is it a bad idea to make an email domain with an uncommon TLD?

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Post by iKlsR »

I know people who've used strange ones like .club or .wtf and gotten by and others who due to the groups they interact with have to switch back to dotcom or something more recognizable etc. If you fall in the latter where someone might not "get it" and maybe even append .com (hello@hb.party.com) thinking it's missing then that answers your question. In my country companies end with Ltd (Limited) so got one for my "company.limited" and it's pretty cool, no issues there and makes for some interesting convo when I give people, also my primary email is hosted at fastmail and my email is me@"my full name".com so I can also when some asks say email me @ ... as a sentence.

Re: Ask HN: Is it a bad idea to make an email domain with an uncommon TLD?

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Post by schmookeeg »

We did a fintech startup and used the ever-so-hip-at-the-time .co TLD and several of our client banks would drop inbound emails from us by default, even as a reply-to email. It created some havoc with our sales process until we figured it out and did a quick name pivot.

"never again" -- are .com TLD registrations "enormous" amounts? I think mine are all in the 15 dollar/yr range. You make me think I should go look :)

Re: Ask HN: Is it a bad idea to make an email domain with an uncommon TLD?

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Post by thinkski »

I’ve used first@last.name for the last 10 years or so. There have been probably a half dozen web forms where a regex expected 2-3 characters and I input an old gmail account that forwards to this address. Over the phone, the first@last part is easier to communicate since customer rep generally has the name info already. The .name throws them for a moment, but I’ve had one or two even tell me “oh, that’s cool, how did you do that?” which feels nice. It wasn’t my first choice, lastname.com was taken, but I like the precision of .name, arguably the most accurate TLD for a personal email address.

Re: Ask HN: Is it a bad idea to make an email domain with an uncommon TLD?

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Post by noahjk »

nlh wrote: post #37

I have a .me address and I've been totally happy with it. My domain is my initials (same as my HN username - nlh) and I love that my email is just nlh @ nlh . me -- it's actually shorter and better than any .com I could reasonably come up with or purchase. There is confusion maybe 10% of the time - it's fine. Most of the confused people think I mean "me.com", but it hasn't been a real issue. Honestly the more confusi…

re: side story: Our name is fairly unique (at least for me, I've only met one or two others around my age with our name). The past decade, and especially what feels like the past five years, have been very jarring now that I hear the name elsewhere - I always react, even when I don't recognize the voice. It's invariably some 5-11 year old being called on. I assume people with more common names don't have this reaction. What's been your experience with having a name which was extremely uncommon for us but is now one of the most popular names?
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