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There are a lot of negative folks in the comments here but I think this is kind of neat. I helped a buddy set up a little art boutique site using a .lol domain and the overall feedback was that people liked the whimsy. Combine that with the fact that that TLD was heavily discounted on porkbun at the time and it all made reasonable business sense! I hope this works out for you and your users.
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The longer something has existed, the longer it is likely to continue existing. Going with Gmail or a custom domain is a really safe bet. There is no way I’d use an email service that’s less than 10 years old now. My gmail account from when I was a kid is still active and working while most of the vanity/foss/privacy focused ones I signed up for have since died.
> The longer something has existed, the longer it is likely to continue existing horses for carriage seem to defy that kind of assumption Gotta love these kind of sayings that have virtually no connection with reality.
why not register omg.motorcycles yourself for a discounted $14.99 per year?
Bought one for my kiddo. He’s just a baby but still needs a unique email for me to create him accounts (eg frequent flyer, global entry) and I had previously been using a +variant on my gmail. Having a vanity email alias seems more fun.
A lot of services don't let you change your email address. Could cause some pain if this service doesn't exist in 20 years.
If this was positioned as "20usd/year mastodon account on our cool instance and - BTW - you get free webpage and email forwarding" would get much closer to the audience. I sense the point of this funny domain is the community, and community is centered on mastodon instance which btw, is not cheap to run as soon as it grows beyond a few hundred people. (I'm including potential moderation costs)
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The longer something has existed, the longer it is likely to continue existing. Going with Gmail or a custom domain is a really safe bet. There is no way I’d use an email service that’s less than 10 years old now. My gmail account from when I was a kid is still active and working while most of the vanity/foss/privacy focused ones I signed up for have since died.
> The longer something has existed, the longer it is likely to continue existing horses for carriage seem to defy that kind of assumption Gotta love these kind of sayings that have virtually no connection with reality.
If we take the C programming language, and one created last year, which one would you expect to still be used in 10 years? You can do this comparison for any two things where there is no inherent end date.
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They definitely should have a free version, limited of course. A sneaky one would be free for the first year, pay $20 thereafter to secure it.
That sounds like a nightmare with how many spammers you'd get. For $20 fee, that solves the vast majority of the spam problem.
Making it free would have missed out on the probably 2 dozen people that converted from this post.
If this was positioned as "20usd/year mastodon account on our cool instance and - BTW - you get free webpage and email forwarding" would get much closer to the audience. I sense the point of this funny domain is the community, and community is centered on mastodon instance which btw, is not cheap to run as soon as it grows beyond a few hundred people. (I'm including potential moderation costs)