The Perils of an .xyz Domain
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The Perils of an .xyz Domain
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#2> One surprising side effect of having a .xyz domain is that the mere inclusion of .xyz inside of a text message will result in a silent delivery failure for many providers.
This is wild to me. Tested it out myself and I couldn't send an SMS with a spot.xyz link to/from Google Voice T-Mobile. And no "failed delivery" notice either, just a silent failure. And yet I still get so many texts that are obviously spam or phishing attempts.
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#3> One surprising side effect of having a .xyz domain is that the mere inclusion of .xyz inside of a text message will result in a silent delivery failure for many providers.
Why are people afraid to use the real term for this?
It's called censorship.
Your provider is silently censoring your text messages. In peacetime. You can't expect it to improve when that's no longer the case.
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#4I have a .haus domain for personal use. I can send and receive email just fine, but I do run into a lot of apps that do some sort of misguided "validation" on the email address and reject .haus as an invalid domain. One retailer lets me use the .haus email address as a login, but once I log in and try to make a payment it requires me to enter a different "valid" email address to send the receipt to. It's very irritating.
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#5Oh. As someone with a blog on a .xyz, this is disappointing news (but extremely good to know). Guess I should look at migrating...
Re: The Perils of an .xyz Domain
#6> One surprising side effect of having a .xyz domain is that the mere inclusion of .xyz inside of a text message will result in a silent delivery failure for many providers. Why are people afraid to use the real term for this? It's called censorship. Your provider is silently censoring your text messages. In peacetime. You can't expect it to improve when that's no longer the case.
perhaps it's a parsing error, like the bug yesterday about usernames may not end in MIME types? SMSC[0] is re-implemented many times.
0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Message_service_center
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#7> One surprising side effect of having a .xyz domain is that the mere inclusion of .xyz inside of a text message will result in a silent delivery failure for many providers. This is wild to me. Tested it out myself and I couldn't send an SMS with a spot.xyz link to/from Google Voice T-Mobile. And no "failed delivery" notice either, just a silent failure. And yet I still get so many texts that are obviously spam or ph…
One of the places I worked as a contractor recently, I could not get to abc.xyz on the work network. I tried some more xyz websites and none worked.
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#8> initial email open rates rose from 70% to 86%
I know this is common knowledge, but it still really creeps me out that companies can track this.
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#9What about .app domains?
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#10Funnily enough, I've found that the .email TLD is often rejected as an invalid domain when I'm filling out my email address online.