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Comment by inezk | Hacker News Reader

so like 6 billion domains?

Huh? There is more than one TLD. .us is available for US people. Every country has a TLD. There's a whole pile of generic TLDs. Finding one for you will not be a problem.

You have to realize that the general public doesn't always understand that the internet isn't always .com.

My email is josh@josh[dot]micronesia. When someone — such as a banker, or "everyday" person — asks for my email address, I overwhelmingly hear, "josh at josh dot m n at... what? gmail dot com? yahoo dot com?"

If it's very hard, you write or message it to them.

I get this too with my `.systems` tld. It's really not that much of a problem when I'm telling someone my email address out loud.

What I have problems with are old html/js forms not accepting it for one reason or another.

what do you think the odds are of the company running .systems being around in 10 years?

50%?

It's just not that hard to run a registrar. Even if the current one bites the dust, someone will pick it up. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The repetition probably confused them, and it also doesn't look that nice. If you use something like me@josh[dot]micronesia I'm sure you would be met with much less confusion.

I bought a 2 letter domain on a .vg and a .mg TLD. It's amazing how many websites refuse my l@up.vg email address on signup as "not a valid email address".

1) there are 7 billion of us

2) we share surnames

3) yes, why not?

How does 2) work out realistically?

Say your last name is Zhang. Do you start an email thread with the other 100 million people named Zhang?

What if your last name is Nike? Mills? Ford?

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