I have .solutions and .info domain emails that still gets denied by some services, especially anything government or public utility, pain in the arse.
You'd think that at least .info would be pretty well accepted by now.
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I have .solutions and .info domain emails that still gets denied by some services, especially anything government or public utility, pain in the arse.
You'd think that at least .info would be pretty well accepted by now.
The correct fix is to get the site maintainers to stop rejecting email addresses based on the characters they contain. They shouldn't be doing that. Sadly, some developers believe it's an appropriate way to deter bots, and it can be difficult to educate them.
If they won't fix it, the workarounds are to either not use those sites, or to give them a different address. Unfortunately, the latter means having to maintain multiple email accounts, or forwarding services like Addy.io, SimpleLogin, Firefox Relay, or DuckDuckGo Email.
I believe because any site that has an extension with more than four characters is detected as invalid.
Usually it's just badly coded apps/websites that only whitelisted some of the main domains e.g. most vanity domains don't make it through. Or sometimes there are apps/websites that purposely block your domain if the admins think it's too spammy or whatever.
If your current email provider allows you to use their own domains as an alias that's one way to sidestep the issue e.g. you'd end up with [something]@[youremailprovider].com --> [name]@[name].rocks
I have Fastmail & they have a ton of their own internal domains so that's one way I sidestep that issue. It's pretty common among most/all email providers when you bring your own domain e.g. pretty sure Proton can do the same thing. Once you have your own domain you can make up any [alias]@[yourdomain] you like or just use the provider's as a front facing alias [alias]@[youremailprovider] --> [anything]@[yourdomain].
Thanks everyone! I think this will be the solution I go with.
Sadly I've run into the same type of problem with a newer TLD as well. My solution was to get a domain in the older TLD space (e.g. .com, .net, .org). I doubt this will be the last site you run into that doesn't support a newer TLD and the low likelihood that you're going to be able to convince someone to fix the issue at every one of those outdated sites means that you'll eventually need a backup domain for something.
I use a simplelogin domain when my custom one isn't accepted. (Everything goes through SimpleLogin anyway.)