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I had .email for a while. Many shopping sites wouldn't actually let you use the address, presumably given some filter assuming that "email" was a fake address.

I had .email for a while. Many shopping sites wouldn't actually let you use the address, presumably given some filter assuming that "email" was a fake address. Because my name ends with "ss", I switched over to .es, which conveniently is a country TLD (Spain). That's worked very well, though occasionally I'll get spam in Spanish, which cracks me up.

bink 5y ago
I wonder how well these new TLDs work for custom email if you use them with Google Workspaces / Google Apps for Domains or another reputable email hosting service. I've been using a custom domain (though a .net) for decades now and since I moved to Google Apps years ago I haven't had an issue being seen as spam.
- vel0city 5y ago
  I use the free email provided with the domain hosting I got with a domain on one of these gTLDs. The only real issue I get are places that think the gTLD isn't a valid email domain, ensuring I always have to fall back to a more traditional email provider for some places. Otherwise, deliverability-wise I haven't really experienced any issues. My mail is regularly delivered to the big email providers.
- hcurtiss 5y ago
  I use Fastmail. Delivery has been fine. My only challenge with .email was that some services wouldn't take the address as a valid email address.
- throaway46546 5y ago
  I haven't had many issues using .xyz with gsuite (with the exception of a couple of sites that didn't accept it as a valid email), but most of the people I email are @gmail.com.
- toyg 5y ago
  I have .email and .cloud hosted on Office365 and they seem to work fine.
tombert 5y ago
That's a clever workaround, though doesn't the .es TLD requires some kind of tie to Spain? I'm not sure how they could possibly enforce that, but in the purely technical sense, are you technically breaking rules?
- greenshackle2 5y ago
  No. Not all ccTLD's have restrictions. .es is open to anyone.
  - yissp 5y ago
    Wait, so the British Indian Ocean Territory isn't a booming tech startup hub?
    - createunderrate 5y ago
      A fun fact: Tuvalu's government gets like 10% of its total revenue from the .tv domain.
toyg 5y ago
I have an .email and am slowly replacing my gmail address with it. 99% of services seem fine; occasionally there is some old laggard with broken validation schemes ("more than 3 letters for a tld? YOU MUST BE A HACKER!!!11!") but then it's likely you don't want to do business with such people.

bink 5y ago

I wonder how well these new TLDs work for custom email if you use them with Google Workspaces / Google Apps for Domains or another reputable email hosting service. I've been using a custom domain (though a .net) for decades now and since I moved to Google Apps years ago I haven't had an issue being seen as spam.

vel0city 5y ago
I use the free email provided with the domain hosting I got with a domain on one of these gTLDs. The only real issue I get are places that think the gTLD isn't a valid email domain, ensuring I always have to fall back to a more traditional email provider for some places. Otherwise, deliverability-wise I haven't really experienced any issues. My mail is regularly delivered to the big email providers.
hcurtiss 5y ago
I use Fastmail. Delivery has been fine. My only challenge with .email was that some services wouldn't take the address as a valid email address.
throaway46546 5y ago
I haven't had many issues using .xyz with gsuite (with the exception of a couple of sites that didn't accept it as a valid email), but most of the people I email are @gmail.com.
toyg 5y ago
I have .email and .cloud hosted on Office365 and they seem to work fine.

tombert 5y ago

That's a clever workaround, though doesn't the .es TLD requires some kind of tie to Spain? I'm not sure how they could possibly enforce that, but in the purely technical sense, are you technically breaking rules?

greenshackle2 5y ago
No. Not all ccTLD's have restrictions. .es is open to anyone.
- yissp 5y ago
  Wait, so the British Indian Ocean Territory isn't a booming tech startup hub?
  - createunderrate 5y ago
    A fun fact: Tuvalu's government gets like 10% of its total revenue from the .tv domain.

toyg 5y ago

I have an .email and am slowly replacing my gmail address with it. 99% of services seem fine; occasionally there is some old laggard with broken validation schemes ("more than 3 letters for a tld? YOU MUST BE A HACKER!!!11!") but then it's likely you don't want to do business with such people.