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Comment by blntechie

5 years ago

Is .dev or .io considered a well-known gTLD by now? I’m in process of setting up email for my .dev domain.

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JimDabell  5 years ago

Avoid .io; it’s not reliable and raises ethical questions:

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20171113150544/https://getstream...

[1] https://plan.io/blog/moving-from-planio-to-planiocom/

[2] http://www.thedarksideof.io

  • darkwater  5 years ago

    > [2] http://www.thedarksideof.io

    Wow, didn't know this story. Imperialism at its finest from the Anglo-saxon world (well, actually started by the French with slavery but that was >200 years ago, I found way worse the decisions took 50 years ago).

input_sh  5 years ago

.io isn't a gTLD at all, it's a ccTLD belonging to British Indian Ocean Territory (which I find to be bullshit, since those islands have no permanent inhabitants).

That said, there are ccTLDs which behave more like gTLDs (like .io, .me, .fm, .gg, .cd) and are treated as such across much of what you do online, but whether that'll impact your email delivery depends on who you communicate with and how they treat spam.

  • vaduz  5 years ago

    > .io isn't a gTLD at all, it's a ccTLD belonging to British Indian Ocean Territory (which I find to be bullshit, since those islands have no permanent inhabitants).

    That's not strictly true - British Indian Ocean Territory has permanent inhabitants, just not any native ones (never had had them, really - it was uninhabited until 1793). US military Diego Garcia base is there...

    It's bullshit for other reasons, and expulsion of Chagossians to build the base is a tragedy - but not due it being empty territory (it's not).

  • andylynch  5 years ago

    Well they did until the British exiled them all to build a US naval base on Diego Garcia. And they would very much like to return home. The UK courts have ruled in favour of the Chagossians, but they are consistently ignored by the UK and US governments.

martinsuchan  5 years ago

Do not use .dev, some companies are using .dev for internal dev hosts and might be blocking on DNS level all external dev addresses.

  • lillecarl  5 years ago

    The sysadmins at these companies must be laid off right now. Same with Windows admins using .local for their AD domain name, now you shot yourself in the foot never being able to sign some services with globally trusted certificates.