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> Email and Gmail are not perfectly congruent. An unsettling number of people now seem to be under the impression that Gmail "is" email, in the sense that all

> Email and Gmail are not perfectly congruent. An unsettling number of people now seem to be under the impression that Gmail "is" email, in the sense that all email is Gmail and Gmail is all email. Even major services. I tried to create an Esty account the other day, and it rejected all addresses from my Fastmail-managed personal domains, and would only take a gmail address. Luckly it turns out you don't need an account to order, and I was able to use my custom domain for an unregistered checkout.

culturestate 5y ago
> I tried to create an Esty account the other day, and it rejected all addresses from my Fastmail-managed personal domains, and would only take a gmail address. This must be related to the tld you're using, right? Not that Etsy only allows @gmail.com addresses? I've noticed that some sites will specifically ban public domains from throwaway services like mailinator, but I can't recall having encountered a blanket tld ban.
- tablespoon 5y ago
  > This must be related to the tld you're using, right? Not that Etsy only allows @gmail.com addresses? I wasn't using a weird TLD. It was a .us that only my family uses. I didn't try too hard to get it to work, or figure out exactly what their criteria were, but I kept getting blocked until I used my old gmail. Their customer support wasn't very helpful, either.
  - culturestate 5y ago
    Interesting. Out of curiosity, I just tried to register with one of my personal .us domains (g suite) and one of my work .com domains (fastmail) and both worked fine. Maybe they changed their validation after you submitted your case!
brokenintuition 5y ago
I thought I ran into the same issue with another site a few weeks ago, turns out I was just misspelling my domain name and their validation was checking that they could actually get an email to that domain.

culturestate 5y ago

> I tried to create an Esty account the other day, and it rejected all addresses from my Fastmail-managed personal domains, and would only take a gmail address. This must be related to the tld you're using, right? Not that Etsy only allows @gmail.com addresses? I've noticed that some sites will specifically ban public domains from throwaway services like mailinator, but I can't recall having encountered a blanket tld ban.

tablespoon 5y ago
> This must be related to the tld you're using, right? Not that Etsy only allows @gmail.com addresses? I wasn't using a weird TLD. It was a .us that only my family uses. I didn't try too hard to get it to work, or figure out exactly what their criteria were, but I kept getting blocked until I used my old gmail. Their customer support wasn't very helpful, either.
- culturestate 5y ago
  Interesting. Out of curiosity, I just tried to register with one of my personal .us domains (g suite) and one of my work .com domains (fastmail) and both worked fine. Maybe they changed their validation after you submitted your case!

brokenintuition 5y ago

I thought I ran into the same issue with another site a few weeks ago, turns out I was just misspelling my domain name and their validation was checking that they could actually get an email to that domain.