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Are you buying domains for fun? you can setup email easily

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Re: Are you buying domains for fun? you can setup email easily

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Because it’s the “contact us” for pricing model.

"Contact us" to me almost always means "you're going to have to talk to a salesperson who's trying to maximize their commission." That doesn't sound like someone who's "buying domains for fun" would really want to do. It also adds a significant amount of friction to your customer acquisition process.

I agree, I also don't like it. "Contact us" has been removed

Re: Are you buying domains for fun? you can setup email easily

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Why even use floating point there, I wonder. Should probably be static text.

It is static text :)

Ok, I see. Kinda clever, but in my opinion it leaves a bad first impression. I thought it was a bug and so my first thought was, "if they can't even get that right...".

I would recommend maybe changing that, but I understand if you want to keep it.

Re: Are you buying domains for fun? you can setup email easily

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Yes there is a bit of added complexity. By SMTP's nature, the forwarding mail server will need to receive your email, before they can forward it to you. For that reason if you use a service for forwarding, you'll need to make sure you trust the company running this service, or only use this service for low-damage forwarding.

Ok. So this brings no added benefit over the free domain forwarding that's included with registrars these days?

I think the benefit is to be able configure fwd’ing rules, I believe.
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