I agree with this; the only downside is aggressive spam filtering often sinkholes XYZ domains. After having 3-4 important emails get sent to a customer's spam inbox in a month we moved to a .com
It's unfortunate. As a computer graphics guy, it's fun to name my domains like GLSL variables.
I haven't had any trouble with the big consumer services. Providers like hotmail and gmail let me pass after the first user marked me as not spam, but some corporate filters just blackholed me.
Running my own mail server. Off the top of my head, I would also say that the .xyz domain is predominantly used for spam. I remember reading on HN once that this is because it's a TLD where it's easy to register throw-away domains. But maybe that's just the effect of me remembering it more since it's unusual? Anyway, I did a quick check:
For the approximately last 12 months, the probability of a message mentioning ".xyz" in them being spam was approximately 7.4:1. In other words, for every 8 messages received that had ".xyz" somewhere in the headers or body, 7 would get classified as spam by my Bayesian spam filter and 1 would be classified as non-spam.
In fact, looking at the spam filter database, I see a huge amount of .xyz domains in there that appear obvious throwaways in the pattern wordNN.xyz where "word" is some random word and NN is a counter that counts up from 1.
I'm not saying that is the general situation. It just appears that in my corner of the net, a message coming from an .xyz is indeed a pretty strong signal that it's spam.
We had a few customers using Microsoft O360 who said they didn't receive our emails. After troubleshooting we discovered them in spam. For reference we were using Gsuite at a .xyz address. We checked with other customers who received our emails -- perhaps it was the domain, I attributed it to being an odd tld.
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Use .xyz domain. Once your startup becomes successful you can buy your tld of choice.
I agree with this; the only downside is aggressive spam filtering often sinkholes XYZ domains. After having 3-4 important emails get sent to a customer's spam inbox in a month we moved to a .com
It's unfortunate. As a computer graphics guy, it's fun to name my domains like GLSL variables.
I haven't had any trouble with the big consumer services. Providers like hotmail and gmail let me pass after the first user marked me as not spam, but some corporate filters just blackholed me.
Would appreciate more info. We are on .xyz and haven't had issues but maybe haven't noticed.
TIA
Running my own mail server. Off the top of my head, I would also say that the .xyz domain is predominantly used for spam. I remember reading on HN once that this is because it's a TLD where it's easy to register throw-away domains. But maybe that's just the effect of me remembering it more since it's unusual? Anyway, I did a quick check:
For the approximately last 12 months, the probability of a message mentioning ".xyz" in them being spam was approximately 7.4:1. In other words, for every 8 messages received that had ".xyz" somewhere in the headers or body, 7 would get classified as spam by my Bayesian spam filter and 1 would be classified as non-spam.
In fact, looking at the spam filter database, I see a huge amount of .xyz domains in there that appear obvious throwaways in the pattern wordNN.xyz where "word" is some random word and NN is a counter that counts up from 1.
I'm not saying that is the general situation. It just appears that in my corner of the net, a message coming from an .xyz is indeed a pretty strong signal that it's spam.
We had a few customers using Microsoft O360 who said they didn't receive our emails. After troubleshooting we discovered them in spam. For reference we were using Gsuite at a .xyz address. We checked with other customers who received our emails -- perhaps it was the domain, I attributed it to being an odd tld.
You could use myco.xyz for the web and mycomail.com for email