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Re: $10 Of Free Bitcoin For College Students

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McGill University doesn't use an .edu domain, I tried signing up in case they included it anyway but got nothing.

That's interesting... (and a little too bad for you, since a lot of systems will give you student discounts and all just for the .edu email address), how come it is that way? Is that a thing with a lot of Canadian universities, or?

Yeah it's a shame. The wiki page for ".edu" specifies "Since 2001, new registrants to the domain have been required to be United States-affiliated institutions of higher education, though before then non-U.S.-affiliated—and even non-educational institutions—registered, with some retaining their registrations to the present."

So it definitely has a US bias.

Re: $10 Of Free Bitcoin For College Students

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Same here, with an @uw.edu e-mail address.

@seas.upenn.edu didn't seem to work.

@umail.ucsb.edu didn't work either but I already have a Coinbase account that I registered from this IP address, maybe it is something to do with that?

Anyone from Coinbase confirm this?

Re: $10 Of Free Bitcoin For College Students

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@seas.upenn.edu didn't seem to work.

@umail.ucsb.edu didn't work either but I already have a Coinbase account that I registered from this IP address, maybe it is something to do with that? Anyone from Coinbase confirm this?

@cs.ucsb.edu doesn't work either. I've never used Coinbase before in my life.

Re: $10 Of Free Bitcoin For College Students

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> This offer is good for select .edu domains only . We have tried to include the top 500 universities worldwide (this is not U.S. focused) . I’m not aware of a university outside of the US that uses a .edu TLD…

I'm an engineer at Coinbase. There are definitely many non-US domains included (e.g. .ac.CCTLD and .edu.CCTLD).

Re: $10 Of Free Bitcoin For College Students

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> This offer is good for select .edu domains only . We have tried to include the top 500 universities worldwide (this is not U.S. focused) . I’m not aware of a university outside of the US that uses a .edu TLD…

http://monash.edu is based in Australia. It also apparently has campuses in Malaysia, South Africa, India, Italy and China.

There's also the embarrassingly bad http://australia.edu/, which is not a university and even has public signup for @australia.edu emails. Perhaps that will allow access to this promotion.

Re: $10 Of Free Bitcoin For College Students

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> This offer is good for select .edu domains only . We have tried to include the top 500 universities worldwide (this is not U.S. focused) . I’m not aware of a university outside of the US that uses a .edu TLD…

In New Zealand it's .ac.nz. We're screwed whenever there's .edu sales/offers.

Fellow kiwi here. Most NZ universities are included.
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