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It looks potentially a very good application, however, I'm unable to sign up as I use a personalised domain and get this message:

Incorrect domain of Email-id! (only gmail, yahoo, msn, outlook, rediff, hotmail are supported for now).

Do you have plans to support a greater number of domains soon?

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This gives me a bad feeling. If the "false signup" is SUCH an issue, it makes me speculate that the end goal is to have my details for some other purpose - like passing on to annoying recruitment companies.

yes. this is basically to stop people from signing up from mailinator kind of email ids. For now you can either use a gmail, yahoo, msn, rediff, hotmail or even do OAuth signin from facebook & linkedin. You can even try without sign-up :)

I have neither of those and this doesn't even include popular providers like gmx oder web.de. This a very bad move.

In that case, you should check against a blacklist instead: http://torvpn.com/temporaryemail.html

Yes. We understand. We are actively thinking of solving the problem. Sorry & Thanks for your time.

No, the problem is that you obviously thought to hard when wilfully introducing the problem and threw the baby out with the bathwater.

Certainly not. You can be assured of that! We have a try without sign-up just for the people who dont want to spend time in sign-ups / dont trust us enough. Its just that when we want to contact you for a genuine reason say send a mailer about a new template thats available we want that to reach you, specially since we spend on the emails being sent! And any list of such temporary emails are not enough to safegaurd us from this problem. But we will most surely re-think on how to solve this problem.

we have removed the restriction of popular email providers only. thank you for your feedback. its helping us get better! and also thank you for the list of temporary email providers, we used it to blacklist domains.

I feel a bit insulted that I can't sign up with my own domain. That's a bad move.

We are sorry about that. That was certainly not the intention though! We will do something about this and get back to you.

This. I use my own domain for all of my email, and don't like to give out my gmail email address. This is a really bad idea, and should be one of your top priorities to be changed. Getting "bad" emails is part of the cost of doing business, so stop hiding behind the "it costs us money to send emails" line. So what?! You are eliminating users by doing this, which in the long run costs you WAY more than sending to some non-existent emails. Just validate the email addresses so you know they exist, and maybe re-check in 30 days - that would probably eliminate most of the "testing" emails from your system.

yes. we realize that we might loose some users just for the sake of not having an email acc wit a popular provider. for some reason we assumed that users would have an acc with one of them and use it or try without signup..we dint think of the users who would want to signup but with an alternate email of theirs. back to drawing rooms on this! :)

[copied from above] we have removed the restriction of popular email providers only. thank you for your feedback. its helping us get better!

and what's wrong with signing up with something like mailinator? i mean, the point is to not give away your "real" email address for a service you cannot yet trust. Whenever a site stops you from signing up via a "throw-away" email, i feel suspicious.

[copied from above comment] Certainly not. You can be assured of that! We have a try without sign-up just for the people who dont want to spend time in sign-ups / dont trust us enough. Its just that when we want to contact you for a genuine reason say send a mailer about a new template thats available we want that to reach you, specially since we spend on the emails being sent!

[copied from above] we have removed the restriction of popular email providers only. thank you for your feedback. its helping us get better!

we have removed the restriction of popular email providers only. thank you for your feedback. its helping us get better!

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