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Re:More people are searching for an inbox that protects thei... by bzb5 on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @12:51PM (#24422952)
The link may say that more people are looking for a private email inbox, but I don’t think most people are willing to pay the price of a domain and an external service. The latter is practically an oligopoly currently because of the lack of options; in terms of price, email services are a complete rip-off.
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Re:More people are searching for an inbox that protects thei... by marban on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @12:54PM (#24422977)
They're not willing to pay because they don't know that you can buy domains in the first place. Most of the time when I tell someone my [email protected] they're like ...and that'd be @gmail.com?
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Re:More people are searching for an inbox that protects thei... by nicholasjarnold on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @01:11PM (#24423194)
Yes, and it's even worse when you're using a "new" TLD like .family. Almost nobody (based on personal anecdotal evidence) outside of tech is even aware those are now valid domains.
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Re:More people are searching for an inbox that protects thei... by marban on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @01:32PM (#24423476)
When even a .co is considered a typo, I think we've a long way to go with this...
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Re:More people are searching for an inbox that protects thei... by arghwhat on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @01:44PM (#24423627)
Nah. I use gTLD's for my email. '.co' is just bad because it indeed looks like a missing character.

Things like '.family', '.wtf', etc. are less of a problem. At most people ask "what, no .com?", and that will be it.

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Re:More people are searching for an inbox that protects thei... by Cyphase on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @01:11PM (#24423189)
Anecdotally confirmed by the number of times people react with some level of amazement when I tell them my email address is [email protected]. "How did you get that?", etc.

EDIT-after-parent-edit: That, too, regarding "and that'd be @gmail.com?".

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Re:More people are searching for an inbox that protects thei... by Shorn on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @07:16PM (#24427061)
I run a service that lets you hand out burner addresses that you can make up on the fly.

It does raise an eyebrow or two when I tell someone my email is [email protected]

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Re:More people are searching for an inbox that protects thei... by calvinmorrison on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @01:32PM (#24423477)
I personally love mine. [email protected]. it's really easy to say "P O box" over the phone and everyone just gets it.
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Re:More people are searching for an inbox that protects thei... by coddle-hark on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @01:50PM (#24423703)
I have a service with one customer (me) that lets people email me via my phone number. For example: [email protected] (this isn’t the actual domain I use).
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Re:More people are searching for an inbox that protects thei... by Cthulhu_ on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @12:58PM (#24423038)
Or they don't want the hassle and find it too difficult and/or daunting.
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