I’m considering getting a domain with a .place TLD. Will it cause any issues like emails being blocked or something? I searched and it doesn’t seem particularly notorious for spam or anything, but I wanted to find out if there are people who can tell me from experience.
Edit: This is not for running my own server - I have a provider, Disroot.
I would go with .com for simplicity, sometimes other TLDs will be blocked by spam or DNS filters in my experience.
I use one of the “new” gtld domains for email. It works and I pay for a provider to do all the heavy lifting like your case, but you would have to configure DMARC, DKIM and SPF for your own domain. The big problem isn’t the technical part. It’s the clueless people who can’t imagine anyone not having a gmail address (the “why can’t you just have a normal gmail like everyone else” crowd). Some retail and government sites also flat out refuse email addresses that don’t end in traditional tlds (.com, .net, etc) or the country-specific tld. In the end, I ended up creating a gmail address for those morons which redirects to my inbox after months of struggling.
Same issue hit me, some government and banking services wouldn’t accept my .info and .services domains, so I have a backup .com for those.
Wish I didn’t need it though, its 2025.
Thank you. That does sound annoying but .com is both boring and more expensive.
.com is $15/yr for most domains, .place is $22/yr for renewals. Not sure where you’re shopping or if you’re eyeing some sort of premium domain, but generally it’s cheaper.
I have both, a domain on “new” TLD (like .place) that is my main but has hiccups on certain websites, and a cheap .com that I have tied to SimpleLogin for generating per-site throwaway addresses. This setup works great for me.
Idk about “boring”, a domain name like “rip17762025.com” would be a quite funny one for an American
It’s not boring. It’s just much more difficult to find a valuable .com domain. Working in business, receiving an email from a .place domain would likely go right in the trash.
Generally custom domains don’t pass spam filters very well. Your email server will have to be immaculate and even then, you could be sent to spam simply because you’re not on the TLD whitelist of a mail server…
Generally, I don’t recommend people roll their own mail server, and even less so when you don’t use typical TLD. You can always test it out, though, if you already have the domain: https://www.mailgenius.com/
Ohh, I maybe should clarify. I don’t intend to use my own server. I have a provider - disroot.
This doesn’t change the situation at all. Each mail server has their own whitelists and blacklists. Some mailservers have explicit whitelists and will throw into the spam folder anything not on the whitelist. You could have a perfectly configured mail server and be doing everything right, but because your TLD isn’t on the whitelist its throw into spam regardless. It entirely depends on the configuration of the mail server to whom you’re sending mail.
Mail is super hard.
That should alleviate problems with sending your mails and them not being in the recipient’s spam folder. The problem with less common tlds is that some ancient forms don’t validate them as actual domains. But this has improved vastly in the last few years. I would say just try it out, it should be fine.
Having a standard TLD to go with the nonstandard will be helpful.
as a direct product of enshittification, google and friends routinely undermine the open internet and make life difficult for people who selfhost, businesses and private parties alike.
so your emails not arriving in gmail’s inbox is because google wants you to use gmail and/or their business account, not plain email. there is no mechanism where you can mark a non-gmail correspondent as safe and someone you always want to receive comms from. except, if you offload your sending either to g&f or one of the 3rd-party senders like mailchimp, sendinblue, etc. who have a direct pipe into google’s infra and are not subject to any of those harassment tactics.
so, not having a .com domain is possibly less ideal, but that pales in comparison to the above; if you’re communicating with non-gmail/outllok/etc contacts, it don’t matter. if you do - again, it doesn’t matter.
If its a mission critical use, I would stick to a more common TLD (com, org, net, etc). Country TLDs should be okay too.
My work (which only has 99.9% uk based clients) has an Exchange server that automatically blocks any email that isnt one of the above, plus .co.uk and .uk.com
Saves on so much spam, 1000+ per day. I think twice in 20 years we had to manually unblock a .fr and .au domain
I encountered it now multiple times that new TLD are discriminated against. They are more likely to get blocked. This applies not only to Mails also to any more controlled network like free wifi networks or business networks.
Go with a classic .com .net .org or a country TLD if you can.
Btw, also applies to registrations on online services.
Also get the yyyplace.com as a fallback. Some (many?) places don’t allow signups with newer TLDs.
