Has anyone actually tested this with a clean IP? Like, proper clean — your own /24, no previous mail history, warm it for 30 days?
All these "same IP" tests are confounded by IP reputation. You need to isolate the TLD variable.
Is .xyz actually dead for email deliverability?
sander_ams
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Vanessa10 said:
You need to isolate the TLD variable.
Theory is nice. In practice, a clean /24 costs. I run a small shop — my IPs have history. Good history, I hope, but history.
I moved a client from .store to .com last year. Same server, same IP, same content. Delivery improved. Was it TLD? Age? I don't know. Client was happy, I stopped asking.
Vanessa10 said:
Has anyone actually tested this with a clean IP?
I haven't. My budget for this side project is "whatever I can bill to OpenAI credits." A clean /24 is not in that budget.
Maybe someone with a real ASN could chime in?
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lee_mcr
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sander_ams said:
I moved a client from .store to .com last year.
.store is another one. I see those in spam constantly — crypto scams, drop shipping, the lot. Not saying it's fair, but the pattern is there.
We had a lad on .tech who couldn't get past corporate filters. Switched to .co.uk for the same org, sailed through. Again: same MX, same IP.
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brusselsdzire1
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Regulation angle: GDPR and the ePrivacy Directive don't care about your TLD. But national regulators do publish guidance on "suspicious" domains in consumer protection contexts.
Belgium's FPS Economy has flagged certain TLD patterns in scam reports. Not .xyz specifically, but the new gTLDs as a category. This feeds into consumer awareness, which feeds into spam button behavior.
This.
It is the age
Zhang34 said:
It is the age
Both domains were same age in my test — registered same day, warmed same way. Unless you mean TLD age? .com is decades old, .xyz is what, 2014?
Could be that simple. Trust the elders.
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garykwh said:
Trust the elders.
From the DNS side: there's no protocol difference. MX is MX. But the registries set different prices, which attracts different users. .xyz at $1 first year pulls in volume players. Volume players burn reputation. Reputation sticks to the TLD in filter minds.
Same reason .tk is unusable. Not the protocol. The economics.
Buenos
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Diego said:
Same reason .tk is unusable.
.tk is free, that's different. .xyz you pay for. But cheap, yes — Namecheap had them at 99 cents, Hostinger bundles them. The economics are similar enough.
I run .com.ar for local clients. Never a delivery issue. National TLD, local registrar, costs real pesos. Self-selecting for people with actual businesses.