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
      87·
      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
        41·
        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
          54·
          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
          4·
          11 months ago

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

      • frozen@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyzEnglish
        3·
        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

      • laurelraven
        English
        7·
        11 months ago

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