I’m looking to buy a domain (or multiple) to use for email aliasing. I’m trying to figure out what’s the cheapest I can reasonably pay while still having a TLD that isn’t considered spammy and going to get blocked somehow. I really don’t care what the domain name or TLD are. I just don’t want to ha…

Proton uses proton.me . Honestly I’m not sure blocking emails based purely on the TLD is really a thing anymore. I’d go with the cheapest reasonable option that you actually like.

TLD blocking is still kind of a thing, but it’s few and far between these days. Most servers have moved on to SMTP level rejection based on authentication rather than just looking at the TLD. I mean even a standard .com can get rejected just like me back in high school if it doesn’t have valid DMARC…

See also: [image] My email addressing strategy: multiple personas / custom domains / aliases shieldGeneral do you think .me is a good long term TLD? is there a risk that they will become greedy and start raising prices? it might be a better idea to use a .co…

For the most part, the only thing that should be a consideration is if domains for a TLD are super inexpensive. I’m not saying this is the case though. There’s a paper on that here: INFERMAL: Inferential analysis of maliciously registered domains ~$15 for a domain renewal is pretty common. I would…

I use .com for my main email addresses and .men for aliases. Works fine.

What do you guys think about .vip? I sounded less professional but it was super cheap.

[image] mooseberg: Obviously .com .net .org are solid but they look to renew for about $15/year, at least on Namecheap. Fwiw, you can get slightly lower renewal prices from Porkbun or Spaceship. The latter currently (I just checked on another tab) have .com and .org renewals for under $10/yr,…

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