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Originally Posted by rowan
That's less annoying than adding a domain to your gmail account...?  |
I never said it would be less annoying, it just would work better.
My biggest issue with using @domain emails which even doc really did not address and instead just covered his issues with fraud (where most is US based unlike what he claims). I already get way to many sponsors who send emails with username and password reminders to my email address. Sure lets say I set up some @domain address and it goes to my gmail, great everything is nice. Now I sell that domain, let it drop, or whatever. Next owner starts to get my username and passwords.
Other issue is many sponsors will give, yes give you a domain. Ok what then?
Then those who still were against the idea, how effective is 8.00 as a fraud barrier in reality? Specially with a few dollars or cents more they can also block who owns that domain or just input fake info (for free).
The time of $70.00 domains has long since passed. The value then was at least 1 to 2 or more sign ups before a payout anyways which caught the fraud often. $8.00 is not going to cut it.
Oh and a note on fraud. Check some real stats and not what you just think you personally see. I can not count the number of times I swore some Russian was scamming me until after much digging I found out it was some US webmaster acting as a person in Russia. Now I am not about to say international fraud does not happen, nor is it a sizable chunk. It just is nowhere near the size of US fraud. Then those who really are organized and perform fraud as one of their many income sources, again the cost of a domain is not a deterrent.
With everything there are exceptions to the rule. Yes there are certain domain extensions that just send up red flags, there are certain countries that do the same, and then a few other things that I shall not mention in public that places people in the watch list.