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> This offer is good for select .edu domains only. We have tried to include the top 500 universities worldwide (this is not U.S. focused).

I’m not aware of a university outside of the US that uses a .edu TLD…

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When I was at university similar comments were made by other organisations and they allowed my .edu.au

However upon reading the first thing I considered was "who are the top 500". It might be easier if they provided a list.

http://monash.edu is based in Australia. It also apparently has campuses in Malaysia, South Africa, India, Italy and China.

There's also the embarrassingly bad http://australia.edu/, which is not a university and even has public signup for @australia.edu emails. Perhaps that will allow access to this promotion.

I'm an engineer at Coinbase. There are definitely many non-US domains included (e.g. .ac.CCTLD and .edu.CCTLD).

Why not publish the list? Surely it's not worth frustrating students from hundreds of colleges who try to take advantage of the offer and can't?

Not publishing the list makes you look like you are harvesting email addresses. Just publish it.

In New Zealand it's .ac.nz. We're screwed whenever there's .edu sales/offers.

Fellow kiwi here. Most NZ universities are included.

Here in the Netherlands the University of Tilburg has a .edu: http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/

The website having an .edu is one thing, but that doesn't give you a usable .edu email address.

I just registered with my @tilburguniversity.edu address but sadly I don't see any indication that it's on the list.

>We have tried to include the top 500 universities worldwide

Eh, doesn't Coinbase operate only in the US?

Their wallet service can be used by anyone, anywhere. If you want to use their brokerage service to buy bitcoins, you need a U.S. bank account.

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