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I think that the domain name the easiest to say is abc.xyz which is owned by Google: https://abc.xyz/ https://abc.xyz/ @abc.xyz is arguably even easier to comm

by mrb 5y ago

I think that the domain name the easiest to say is abc.xyz which is owned by Google: https://abc.xyz/ https://abc.xyz/ @abc.xyz is arguably even easier to communicate than @gmail.com or @yahoo.com because it's possible some people may have never heard of such and such popular mail host, but at least they know the alphabet :-)

dan-robertson 5y ago
Strongly disagree. I think most ordinary people expect roughly every email address to end with .com. I think some people might be ok with eg .co.<country-code> (in that country) or .org, but I would expect you to risk them writing down .com anyway. If you give an address like abc.xyz, you risk people not believing that it’s a real address and doing weird things or random problems with spam filters not liking the tld.
- fuzzy2 5y ago
  Hm that depends on the country though. The local TLD (.us, .fr, .hr, …) would be rather common I’d say. Apart from that, it’s mostly what people browse to, yes. So .com, .net, .org.
  - Symbiote 5y ago
    Country code domains are common in many countries outside the USA. If it's clear I'm not local, something like "yahoo.ca" or "mail.ru" is not confusing, except perhaps for Colombians (.co). A local with an address in the "wrong" country can be confusing if it's obscure. Within a country, using a less-common second level domain (e.g. .org.uk) for a personal domain can be confusing. I've had people say "so that's example.org.uk.com then?" or "what was that, symbiote-example.org.uk@gmail?"
- davchana 5y ago
  True. People have emailed me at myemail.mydomain@gmail.com instead of myemail@mydomain.com even when given in writing. I found it that they cc'ed the correct one just in case.
- tyingq 5y ago
  I would guess a lot of people would just (silently) add the .com when you told them me@abc.xyz resulting in me@abc.xyz.com
nixy 5y ago
I diagree. The c / z in American pronunciation can cause confusion in verbal communication here. "at ey bee [see] dot ex why [see]"
reureu 5y ago
You'd be amazed at how many people get confused about "new" TLDs (not .com, .net, .org, .edu, or .gov). I have an email account that's @mylastname.io, and I had to buy mylastnameio.com because I got tired of not getting emails because the "silent failure" where a rep thought they entered my email right but totally didn't.

by mrb 5y ago

dan-robertson 5y ago

Strongly disagree. I think most ordinary people expect roughly every email address to end with .com. I think some people might be ok with eg .co.<country-code> (in that country) or .org, but I would expect you to risk them writing down .com anyway. If you give an address like abc.xyz, you risk people not believing that it’s a real address and doing weird things or random problems with spam filters not liking the tld.

fuzzy2 5y ago
Hm that depends on the country though. The local TLD (.us, .fr, .hr, …) would be rather common I’d say. Apart from that, it’s mostly what people browse to, yes. So .com, .net, .org.
- Symbiote 5y ago
  Country code domains are common in many countries outside the USA. If it's clear I'm not local, something like "yahoo.ca" or "mail.ru" is not confusing, except perhaps for Colombians (.co). A local with an address in the "wrong" country can be confusing if it's obscure. Within a country, using a less-common second level domain (e.g. .org.uk) for a personal domain can be confusing. I've had people say "so that's example.org.uk.com then?" or "what was that, symbiote-example.org.uk@gmail?"
davchana 5y ago
True. People have emailed me at myemail.mydomain@gmail.com instead of myemail@mydomain.com even when given in writing. I found it that they cc'ed the correct one just in case.
tyingq 5y ago
I would guess a lot of people would just (silently) add the .com when you told them me@abc.xyz resulting in me@abc.xyz.com

nixy 5y ago

I diagree. The c / z in American pronunciation can cause confusion in verbal communication here. "at ey bee [see] dot ex why [see]"

reureu 5y ago

You'd be amazed at how many people get confused about "new" TLDs (not .com, .net, .org, .edu, or .gov). I have an email account that's @mylastname.io, and I had to buy mylastnameio.com because I got tired of not getting emails because the "silent failure" where a rep thought they entered my email right but totally didn't.