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https://www.spamhaus.org/reputation-statistics/cctlds/domain...
God only knows how much weight it has on spam filtering policies of the many providers we have, but you'll at least know whether your TLD is considered a particularly bad offender with all that might entail.
It ends up being overly confusing when communicating it.
Using a .uk domain would probably solve your problem. I was looking for a cheap domain last year and for some reason .uk domains were the cheapest. (I bought it on Cloudflare for $4 per year). I also wanted to avoid some weird TLD that looks like a scam, and this one seems like it should appear reputable to people. I'm curious if anyone knows why this domain would be selling for a fraction of the price of weird TLDs…
.uk is not the same as .co.uk, .uk is in fact one of those scummy TLDs.
Isn't ".co.uk" a subdomain of the .uk TLD?
Using a .uk domain would probably solve your problem. I was looking for a cheap domain last year and for some reason .uk domains were the cheapest. (I bought it on Cloudflare for $4 per year). I also wanted to avoid some weird TLD that looks like a scam, and this one seems like it should appear reputable to people. I'm curious if anyone knows why this domain would be selling for a fraction of the price of weird TLDs…
Maybe expensive to renew?
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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...
Yes the fact that you don't use your country's tld is a uniquely USA thing. I lived in Italy, UK, Australia, Brazil, Thailand and Indonesia, in all those places the national tld (e.g. ".it" in Italy) is the most commonly used. Even American services usually have a localised version with that tld, e.g. google.it; Some American email providers offer local tlds as well, e.g. I used to have [username]@hotmail.it
Do NOT use an uncommon TLD. I was using .lol recently and missed a job interview because the employer wasn't receiving any of my emails -- they kept getting rejected by their email servers! And I was only informed by Thunderbird weeks later when it was too late. Ever since then, I've just been using gmail for everything.
Why would you think it was a good idea to use a non professional email address when job hunting?
I regret using firstnamelastname.dev as my main personal account It’s uncommon, and causes confusion if I have to dictate it out over the phone. You have to optimize for the non-technical people scheduling appointments that don’t realize there are options other than .com I’ve started the process of migrating over to a .com with my middle initial added, and it’s so much easier knowing that everyone will understand the…
I don't really have the problem you're describing.
Depending on the recipient, I do sometimes reitterate the .net TLD, but that's it.
I would say a more significant issue would be having a custom domain name that's too long, as this increases the liklyhood that it will be misspelled.
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Yes the fact that you don't use your country's tld is a uniquely USA thing. I lived in Italy, UK, Australia, Brazil, Thailand and Indonesia, in all those places the national tld (e.g. ".it" in Italy) is the most commonly used. Even American services usually have a localised version with that tld, e.g. google.it; Some American email providers offer local tlds as well, e.g. I used to have [username]@hotmail.it
I'm curious about the situation in the UK. They don't seem to use ".uk", but rather ".co.uk". I bought a couple ".uk" domains because they were cheaper than all the other weird ones like .club, .today, etc. I couldn't figure out why a well-known place like the UK would have deeply discounted TLD's.
In some cases the first level tld subsequently became available to the public - for example in 2022 .au has become available, but the original second levels, e.g. .com.au or .gov.au remain more popular because the public is more familiar with it.
PS I just saw here that .uk also became available to the public in 2014 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.uk
I regret using firstnamelastname.dev as my main personal account It’s uncommon, and causes confusion if I have to dictate it out over the phone. You have to optimize for the non-technical people scheduling appointments that don’t realize there are options other than .com I’ve started the process of migrating over to a .com with my middle initial added, and it’s so much easier knowing that everyone will understand the…
I've been self hosting a .net email domain for decades. I don't really have the problem you're describing. Depending on the recipient, I do sometimes reitterate the .net TLD, but that's it. I would say a more significant issue would be having a custom domain name that's too long, as this increases the liklyhood that it will be misspelled.