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I would love to use Pangram but they simply don’t allow signing up with my custom email domain. The error was “This email address can't be used for signup. Please use a different email.” I’m not about to create a Gmail is to use your service. To me the attack on the decentralized nature on Internet infrastructure is no less serious than the attack on the human provenance of writing itself.

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> but they simply don’t allow signing up with my custom email domain.

Tried 4 different domains. 3 of email services of various kind. 4th one my private domain which has absolutely no email reputation because I use it only for internal emails and sending is not even possible.

In the end I dug out some old gmail address and tried to use that.

The error was always the same, there had been suspicious activity from that domain. So the message is definitely incorrect. Well, there could have been suspicious activity from some gmail address, but if they don't allow gmail I guess they don't want many customers.

Yeah, did not cover my tracks. The could easily notice that I was the same one trying to sign up repeatedly with different emails.

So what you're saying is that Pangram's heuristics misidentified a legitimate input, on your very first encounter?

Thanks for writing about that. I appreciate you taking the time to call out a bad actor like that.

Weird. I have recently created an account on my meme domain ($something.party) just fine.

Huh. Very weird. Today I decided to put in a fake Gmail address that I did not own and I got the same error. Perhaps they did not like my residential IP.

I'm surprised it's not on some of the third party model routers.

For the record, I was able to sign up using my matheusmoreira.com domain.

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