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• stickmanmeyhem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  A few years back I bought a .family domain for my wife and I to have emails at ourlastname.family That lasted a week because almost every online service wouldn’t accept it. Now we have a .org

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  • CosmicTurtle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Doesn’t surprise me one bit. I’ve noticed that a lot of websites will only accept .com and a few will only accept email addresses from popular providers (Gmail, Hotmail, outlook, etc.)

    My guess is that it’s trying to reduce spam and fake account generation.

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    • deweydecibel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      My guess is that it’s trying to reduce spam and fake account generation.

      Thus preventing the growth of any small providers and further entrenching Microsoft, Google, Apple, and a handful of others as the only “viable” options.

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    • Blamemeta@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah, that’s it pretty much.Like 99% of your legitimate users are going to be standard gmail/yahoo/hotmail/etc. You see a user from ten minute mail, it’s probably some shady shit.

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      • CosmicTurtle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Not necessarily shady.

        I use 10 minute email if a merchant requires me enter an email account before seeing the total price on an item (including shipping). That’s the most common pattern I’ve seen. My guess is that they want to ping you to complete the purchase.

        Or a website might require free registration in order to view the content.

        One place I use 10-minute email is actually Spotify. I didn’t want to give them my Gmail address since your name is exposed to the world via their sharing API.

        Don’t get me wrong, there are a lot of bad uses for it as well. But privacy minded people use it too.

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    • MBM@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Feels very relevant to the fediverse, with how people tend to compare it to email.

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  • frozen@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I went with .io specifically for this. It doesn’t look special or anything, it’s just cheaper than .org and accepted anywhere I’ve tried, so far.

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    • freehugs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What registrar do you use? Last time I checked .io domains where like 4x the price of a .org

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      • frozen@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Namecheap. But it might also have to do with my domain not being very popular. Not sure.

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• NightAuthor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I hate it.

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• PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Same. There are a lot of sites that just outright refuse to accept my email address that I’ve had for years, because it’s not a .com TLD.

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• lunarul@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  One of my first email addresses was @k.ro (a free email provider many many years ago) and many websites thought a valid second-level domain name cannot be just one letter

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  • laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’d love to know where they got the idea that the spec doesn’t allow that…

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