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A normal internet user wouldn't need to figure this out, they wouldn't have a .pizza email, they'd have @gmail.com. There are two approaches 1) You can compla
by iso1210 5y ago
A normal internet user wouldn't need to figure this out, they wouldn't have a .pizza email, they'd have @gmail.com.
There are two approaches
1) You can complain that they aren't serving you, and take your money elsewhere. They see the lost revenue and fix the problem, or they decide the cost of supporting you isn't worth the profit
2) You can conform and get a more normal email address like 99% of the world. I have enough issues when I give people my own domain.com address as they are confused it doesnt end in gmail or hotmail
Most of the 1% that have the issues will conform, so you're left with 1% of 1% who draw a line in the sand. And that's great, good luck to you and the 35,000 other Americans that fit in that demographic. Big companies are interesting in the 99.99% that don't though.
(1) is a symptom of the centralising, automation, and reduction in costs of services. If you don't fit in the 99% pattern (or even 90% pattern), you are rejected as you're not worth it, that's the direction the world is travelling in (google etc drop your account automatically rather than spend the money to look at it manually, you can sometimes get redress via complaining to your social network if you're lucky)
- croutonwagon 5y ago>2) You can conform and get a more normal email address like 99% of the world. I have enough issues when I give people my own domain.com address as they are confused it doesnt end in gmail or hotmail This one always makes me laugh. I got a quote from a garden center on some yard work last week. Guy was stunned i used my own TLD, made me verify it a couple times. Then sends me an email from.....@soandsogardencenter.com. I was a bit perplexed as to why it was confusing for him. I guess maybe he thought you had to be a company to have your own TLD. He definately didnt understand why i would run my own (which is totally fine, most arent really concerned with the minutia of email).
- ThePowerOfFuet 5y agoSorry to tell you, but in your example the TLD is "com". A TLD is not the same as a domain name, but rather a top-level domain (after the last dot).
- croutonwagon 5y agoI am aware. Was speaking colloquially. Maybe “custom domain name with email” would be better. But I was on my phone and just trying to get the point across. It’s worth noting that while my email does use a .com as a backup, it’s primary is a gtld .email
- Bancakes 5y agoFantastic. Email handling is a canary for code quality. If a company can't parse a simple text string, they probably can't bring up efficient/bug-free cloud services and keep up with cybersecurity.