I also reached out to them on Twitter but they directed me to this form. I followed up with them on Twitter with what happened in this screenshot but they are now ignoring me.

  • DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.comEnglish
    167·
    11 months ago

    I have my own domain that uses a specific 2-letter ccTLD - it’s a short domain variation of my surname (think “goo.gl” for Google). I’ve been using it for years, for my email.

    Over those years, I have discovered an astonishing number of fuckheaded organisations whose systems insist I should have an email address with a “traditional” TLD at the end.

    • stickmanmeyhem@lemmy.worldEnglish
      871·
      11 months 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

      • CosmicTurtle@lemmy.worldEnglish
        42·
        11 months 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.

        • deweydecibel@lemmy.worldEnglish
          56·
          11 months 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.

        • MBM@lemmings.worldEnglish
          51·
          11 months ago

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

        • Throwaway@lemm.eeEnglish
          914·
          11 months 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.

          • CosmicTurtle@lemmy.worldEnglish
            221·
            11 months 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.

      • frozen@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyzEnglish
        31·
        11 months 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.

    • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      11 months 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.

      • nybble41@programming.devEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        CVS and E*Trade both refused to accept my fairly standard user@mydomain.info address during initial registration, but had no issue changing to that address once the account was created. It would be nice if their internal teams communicated a bit better.

    • lunarul@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      11 months ago

      My first email address 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