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Having had an xyz domain name I have to warn people that many mail servers will automatically think you're a spammer if you send email with it. No idea why.

gsich 6y ago
1$/1€ per Domain per year.
snazz 6y ago
I've heard of this, but I use my @snazz.xyz email address for most everything and have never had deliverability issues (using G Suite with SPF, DMARC, and DKIM configured). Maybe this is true if you run your own mail server and your IP reputation is too low.
- davb 6y ago
  I've had similar results, using Fastmail with my .xyz domain.
johnklos 6y ago
Here's why: they sold for cheap / gave away registrations for next to nothing with no vetting process, so .xyz was the go-to domain for spam and phishing for quite a long time after it was introduced. Some of us (email administrators) have only recently started allowing .xyz email. It really was that bad.
- lstodd 6y ago
  If you're serious about a "vetting process" for domain registration, you haven't had anything to do with email admin for last 20 years.
  - tomrod 6y ago
    I don't normally chime in on comments like this, but I just have to say: what are you talking about? If 99.9999% of traffic from a domain is spam,it makes complete sense to block it as spam.
    - lstodd 6y ago
      Yes, but that is in no way limited to .xyz It was the the same with .info in 2001/2002 and .biz and whatever else. The point was that there never was any "vetting" ever. Bulk-buy, spam, abandon. That's what spam was and is.
- jawns 6y ago
  I have a .science domain name, and I only found out after purchasing it and building out a website that it is on many blocklists because there was a time when it was one of the cheapest TLDs, and scammers took advantage. Which is a darn shame, because unlike .io or .xyz where the TLD doesn't necessarily signify what type of content you'll find, .science is clearly a subject-matter specific TLD, and it bugs me that because of these scammers, the association between science and scams is being perpetuated.
diebeforei485 6y ago
The entire .xyz domain is blacklisted[1] on Wikipedia. You can't even link to a .xyz domain on Wikipedia (at least English Wikipedia) without requesting specific exemptions. They have an exemption for abc.xyz by putting it on a whitelist for example. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Spam-blacklist#.xyz_TLD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Spam-blacklist#...
mmm_grayons 6y ago
It's cheap. Same reason a .tk might cause problems.

gsich 6y ago

1$/1€ per Domain per year.

snazz 6y ago

I've heard of this, but I use my @snazz.xyz email address for most everything and have never had deliverability issues (using G Suite with SPF, DMARC, and DKIM configured). Maybe this is true if you run your own mail server and your IP reputation is too low.

davb 6y ago
I've had similar results, using Fastmail with my .xyz domain.

johnklos 6y ago

Here's why: they sold for cheap / gave away registrations for next to nothing with no vetting process, so .xyz was the go-to domain for spam and phishing for quite a long time after it was introduced. Some of us (email administrators) have only recently started allowing .xyz email. It really was that bad.

lstodd 6y ago
If you're serious about a "vetting process" for domain registration, you haven't had anything to do with email admin for last 20 years.
- tomrod 6y ago
  I don't normally chime in on comments like this, but I just have to say: what are you talking about? If 99.9999% of traffic from a domain is spam,it makes complete sense to block it as spam.
  - lstodd 6y ago
    Yes, but that is in no way limited to .xyz It was the the same with .info in 2001/2002 and .biz and whatever else. The point was that there never was any "vetting" ever. Bulk-buy, spam, abandon. That's what spam was and is.
jawns 6y ago
I have a .science domain name, and I only found out after purchasing it and building out a website that it is on many blocklists because there was a time when it was one of the cheapest TLDs, and scammers took advantage. Which is a darn shame, because unlike .io or .xyz where the TLD doesn't necessarily signify what type of content you'll find, .science is clearly a subject-matter specific TLD, and it bugs me that because of these scammers, the association between science and scams is being perpetuated.

diebeforei485 6y ago

The entire .xyz domain is blacklisted[1] on Wikipedia. You can't even link to a .xyz domain on Wikipedia (at least English Wikipedia) without requesting specific exemptions. They have an exemption for abc.xyz by putting it on a whitelist for example. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Spam-blacklist#.xyz_TLD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Spam-blacklist#...

mmm_grayons 6y ago

It's cheap. Same reason a .tk might cause problems.