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The link may say that more people are looking for a private email inbox, but I don’t think most people are willing to pay the price of a domain and an external
by bzb5 6y ago
The link may say that more people are looking for a private email inbox, but I don’t think most people are willing to pay the price of a domain and an external service. The latter is practically an oligopoly currently because of the lack of options; in terms of price, email services are a complete rip-off.
- marban 6y agoThey're not willing to pay because they don't know that you can buy domains in the first place. Most of the time when I tell someone my first@lastname.com they're like ...and that'd be @gmail.com?
- Cthulhu_ 6y agoOr they don't want the hassle and find it too difficult and/or daunting.
- Cyphase 6y agoAnecdotally confirmed by the number of times people react with some level of amazement when I tell them my email address is myname@myname.com. "How did you get that?", etc. EDIT-after-parent-edit: That, too, regarding "and that'd be @gmail.com?".
- Shorn 6y agoI run a service that lets you hand out burner addresses that you can make up on the fly. It does raise an eyebrow or two when I tell someone my email is theirname@myname.domain
- nicholasjarnold 6y agoYes, and it's even worse when you're using a "new" TLD like .family. Almost nobody (based on personal anecdotal evidence) outside of tech is even aware those are now valid domains.
- marban 6y agoWhen even a .co is considered a typo, I think we've a long way to go with this...
- arghwhat 6y agoNah. I use gTLD's for my email. '.co' is just bad because it indeed looks like a missing character. Things like '.family', '.wtf', etc. are less of a problem. At most people ask "what, no .com?", and that will be it.
- calvinmorrison 6y agoI personally love mine. firstname@pobox.com. it's really easy to say "P O box" over the phone and everyone just gets it.
- coddle-hark 6y agoI have a service with one customer (me) that lets people email me via my phone number. For example: 732-757-2923@telephonemail.com (this isn’t the actual domain I use).