New blogpost:
# Time to drop .legal?
Just my ponderings at this point.
Perhaps I am over-worrying?
Discussion
New blogpost:
# Time to drop .legal?
Just my ponderings at this point.
Perhaps I am over-worrying?
@neil It doesn't read as over-worry so much as planning for the future.
In your position, I think I'd be half-tempted to start having new clients/contacts email a non .legal domain.
Doesn't help with those who already do, but stops building what might become an issue (mail clients handle replying from the correct address sanely, so it doesn't really add any day-to-day overhead to you). If the day comes it is an issue, only x% need moving over
@neil i feel fancy TLDs could work for web-ish stuff or hostnames or maybe even XMPP, but for email – original gTLDs and ccTLDs.
@neil I don’t think it matters. The vast majority of users never actually type it - and don’t care.
@neil Does this link lead somewhere I don’t want to visit?
@neil I think an obvious option is to just point all the domains you own at the same server and let nginx/whatever serve the same stuff for every domain.
You could use <link rel="alternate" to link them all together too, although I don't think this would magically do anything other than prove to technical people aiming to block all your domains that these are all your domains
@M0YNG I'm less worried about web than about email, really - and then it is more about stopping others sending to the .legal address before it becomes under someone else's control or ceases to operate.
@neil Given that you put actual question marks in this post:
I used to have .com and .eu business domains as well.
Now I just have .dk because keeping track of one set of domain rules and managing those risks is plenty for my tired old brain.
Getting blocked is the much lesser concern, in my book, than losing control of your domain name.
> Getting blocked is the much lesser concern, in my book, than losing control of your domain name.
I agree.
@neil I see your thinking, and we have the same issue with a .host domain.
Although we do everything correctly to authentic emails and web, some spam filters just lump us with the rest of the internet 😔
Had the same thought of switching to something under UK jurisdiction, and hopefully reputation.
@nbwpuk As far as I know, I have not had a problem with email delivery. But perhaps we have had a problem and I have just not known, or else we will, one day, have such a problem...
@neil fwiw, the "unconventional" TLDs are strong negative signals in a lot of areas, although .legal seems to be less troublesome than most.
While I *do* own a (super cheap) .xyz, anything I care about is on a "traditional" TLD