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>1. Block a small number of extremely spammy TLDs. There are about a dozen of these, including .biz, .casa, etc. Honest question: Is there any reason to not ju

>1. Block a small number of extremely spammy TLDs. There are about a dozen of these, including .biz, .casa, etc. Honest question: Is there any reason to not just blacklist all emails from TLDs that aren't the Big Four (.com, .net, .org, .gov) and country TLDs (eg: .co.uk, .jp, etc.)? I can't recall ever needing, let alone wanting, email from the later TLDs like .biz or any of the bloody stupid new TLDs that comprise entire words.

yieldcrv 4y ago
as someone that’s never needed SEO perks of a .com since none of my customers would use a search engine to find me (they’ll click thru from posts and ads on social media and group chats) I typically register both a new TLD and a .com, and I use the .com for the email campaigns and reply-to if it gets flagged that doesnt affect my more official one-to-one emails from the actual domain so I would say, maybe? because I’m not allergic to “bloody stupid” TLD’s and have already adapted to what you’re wondering about
ZhadruOmjar 4y ago
There are lots of businesses using `.io` `.ee` `.co` etc that depending on your email use-case would be detrimental to block especially if you're doing any kinds of business or outreach.
- NickNameNick 4y ago
  Those are country code TLDs
  - mthoms 4y ago
    In name only. Domains with those TLDs are available to anyone willing to pay.
    - DangitBobby 4y ago
      This was in the original comment: > Honest question: Is there any reason to not just blacklist all emails from TLDs that aren't the Big Four (.com, .net, .org, .gov) and country TLDs (eg: .co.uk, .jp, etc.)?
lisper 4y ago
I personally have a dot-email address. And you left out dot-edu. And I get a fair bit of ham from other weird TLDs. So I think a whitelist is a bad idea. But that's because I prefer to have some spam get through than have ham get blocked by mistake. Even with my very sloppy algorithm, the only time spam ends up in my inbox is if a spammer spoofs one of my contacts, and that is extremely rare.
- Dalewyn 4y ago
  I knew I was forgetting one, thanks for reminding me about .edu.
  - lisper 4y ago
    There is also .mil though I have not actually seen that one used in a very long time.
jenadine 4y ago
My company has a .tech domain.
mcluck 4y ago
I setup my website and email at a dot-tech because, surprise, I work in tech and the equivalent com and io were taken and/or prohibitively expensive
sveme 4y ago
There‘s also the fancier new stuff like .ai and .io.
- remedan 4y ago
  Aren't both of those country TLDs?
  - cassianoleal 4y ago
    Yep, .ai is the TLD of Anguilla (United Kingdom) and .io is British Indian Ocean Territory (United Kingdom). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_code_top_level_domain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_code_top_level_domain
    - sveme 4y ago
      Oh, wasn‘t even aware. Today I learned.
derefr 4y ago
As a B2B SaaS company, most of our legitimate, paying customer base uses .app or .io domains.
omnicognate 4y ago
.co.uk isn't a country TLD, .uk is. If you block .ac.uk you'll block every UK university, .gov.uk the UK government and if you block .me.uk you'll block, well, me.
account42 4y ago
That's exactly the kind of arbitrary bullshit policy we don't need more of.

yieldcrv 4y ago

as someone that’s never needed SEO perks of a .com since none of my customers would use a search engine to find me (they’ll click thru from posts and ads on social media and group chats) I typically register both a new TLD and a .com, and I use the .com for the email campaigns and reply-to if it gets flagged that doesnt affect my more official one-to-one emails from the actual domain so I would say, maybe? because I’m not allergic to “bloody stupid” TLD’s and have already adapted to what you’re wondering about

ZhadruOmjar 4y ago

There are lots of businesses using `.io` `.ee` `.co` etc that depending on your email use-case would be detrimental to block especially if you're doing any kinds of business or outreach.

NickNameNick 4y ago
Those are country code TLDs
- mthoms 4y ago
  In name only. Domains with those TLDs are available to anyone willing to pay.
  - DangitBobby 4y ago
    This was in the original comment: > Honest question: Is there any reason to not just blacklist all emails from TLDs that aren't the Big Four (.com, .net, .org, .gov) and country TLDs (eg: .co.uk, .jp, etc.)?

lisper 4y ago

I personally have a dot-email address. And you left out dot-edu. And I get a fair bit of ham from other weird TLDs. So I think a whitelist is a bad idea. But that's because I prefer to have some spam get through than have ham get blocked by mistake. Even with my very sloppy algorithm, the only time spam ends up in my inbox is if a spammer spoofs one of my contacts, and that is extremely rare.

Dalewyn 4y ago
I knew I was forgetting one, thanks for reminding me about .edu.
- lisper 4y ago
  There is also .mil though I have not actually seen that one used in a very long time.

jenadine 4y ago

My company has a .tech domain.

mcluck 4y ago

I setup my website and email at a dot-tech because, surprise, I work in tech and the equivalent com and io were taken and/or prohibitively expensive

sveme 4y ago

There‘s also the fancier new stuff like .ai and .io.

remedan 4y ago
Aren't both of those country TLDs?
- cassianoleal 4y ago
  Yep, .ai is the TLD of Anguilla (United Kingdom) and .io is British Indian Ocean Territory (United Kingdom). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_code_top_level_domain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_code_top_level_domain
  - sveme 4y ago
    Oh, wasn‘t even aware. Today I learned.

derefr 4y ago

As a B2B SaaS company, most of our legitimate, paying customer base uses .app or .io domains.

omnicognate 4y ago

.co.uk isn't a country TLD, .uk is. If you block .ac.uk you'll block every UK university, .gov.uk the UK government and if you block .me.uk you'll block, well, me.

account42 4y ago

That's exactly the kind of arbitrary bullshit policy we don't need more of.