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Re:Welcome to Libera Chat by tablespoon on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @08:56PM (#27216217)
> Email and Gmail are not perfectly congruent. An unsettling number of people now seem to be under the impression that Gmail "is" email, in the sense that all email is Gmail and Gmail is all email.

Even major services. I tried to create an Esty account the other day, and it rejected all addresses from my Fastmail-managed personal domains, and would only take a gmail address.

Luckly it turns out you don't need an account to order, and I was able to use my custom domain for an unregistered checkout.

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Re:Welcome to Libera Chat by culturestate on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @11:41PM (#27217119)
> I tried to create an Esty account the other day, and it rejected all addresses from my Fastmail-managed personal domains, and would only take a gmail address.

This must be related to the tld you're using, right? Not that Etsy only allows @gmail.com addresses?

I've noticed that some sites will specifically ban public domains from throwaway services like mailinator, but I can't recall having encountered a blanket tld ban.

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Re:Welcome to Libera Chat by tablespoon on Thursday May 20, 2021 @04:12PM (#27226548)
> This must be related to the tld you're using, right? Not that Etsy only allows @gmail.com addresses?

I wasn't using a weird TLD. It was a .us that only my family uses.

I didn't try too hard to get it to work, or figure out exactly what their criteria were, but I kept getting blocked until I used my old gmail. Their customer support wasn't very helpful, either.

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Re:Welcome to Libera Chat by culturestate on Thursday May 20, 2021 @09:01PM (#27229369)
Interesting. Out of curiosity, I just tried to register with one of my personal .us domains (g suite) and one of my work .com domains (fastmail) and both worked fine. Maybe they changed their validation after you submitted your case!
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Re:Welcome to Libera Chat by brokenintuition on Friday May 21, 2021 @09:19AM (#27233628)
I thought I ran into the same issue with another site a few weeks ago, turns out I was just misspelling my domain name and their validation was checking that they could actually get an email to that domain.
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