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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.

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[-] DmMacniel@feddit.de 325 points 11 months ago

When you insist on implementing your own email address validation...

[-] DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com 170 points 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.world 87 points 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.world 44 points 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.world 58 points 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.world 4 points 11 months ago

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

[-] Blamemeta@lemm.ee -5 points 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.world 21 points 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.

[-] acetanilide@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

ELI5 the bit about spotify's sharing API?

[-] CosmicTurtle@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

When you share your playlist or have Spotify hooked up to some other service like discord, it shows the name associated with the account.

And changing that name is not as straight forward as you might think.

Given the fact that it's shared so easily, I wouldn't be surprised if email addresses could be exposed with the right options.

[-] frozen@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 2 points 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.

[-] freehugs@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

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

[-] frozen@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 1 points 11 months ago

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

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

Ah that makes sense. So far I’ve been using Namexpensive

[-] NightAuthor@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago
[-] lunarul@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 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@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 11 months ago

I'd love to know where they got the idea that the spec doesn't allow that...

[-] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 16 points 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.dev 3 points 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.

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