Re:Degoogling My Life
by GloriousKoji on Monday January 18, 2021 @02:58PM
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There were a few obscure online stores that I can't remember but the ones I do remember I don't want to link for privacy reasons. One was a local water utility company and the other was my university which offered academic email address forwarding for alumni. It was silly as a Protonmail address also didn't work for one of them.
Re:Degoogling My Life
by newscracker on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @07:11AM
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Anecdotal, but I've seen lazy/clueless developers in some companies who allow only a .com email address to be provided. And this was a few years ago. I don't recall the name. I'm not going to do any business with such services.
Nearly 25 years running my own domain email and I have never encountered this either. (Currently using GAFYD for email, but at times it's been virtual hosted, as well as home hosted on a Pentium Pro and dial-up)
Re:Degoogling My Life
by HenryBemis on Monday January 18, 2021 @01:57PM
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Same here, I have been running my own domain for 20 years. I have gotten the 'reverse' though... trying to register somewhere using a gmail throwaway account and getting the message that they do not accept free service emails.
I've never come across that. Do you have any examples? There are hundreds of thousands of non-well-known domains that people use for email.
It could be that your domain was missing expected setup, like SPF records, or you ended up on a blacklist somehow.