• Nix@merv.news
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    1 year ago

    It really saddens me they changed their domain to proton.me it looks so wildly unprofessional and spammy while protonmail.com looked professional and even futuristic/scientific. Such a bizarre decision especially since everything else they do is so great

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        1 year ago

        Yeah but if you go to protonmail.com it redirects you to proton.me and they also have the @proton.me domains be the default on sign up which means like 90% of users will be making proton.me email addresses

        Its a small issue but it really irks me because otherwise its a great service/company with really well designed apps and websites. I just feel they diminished their brand so much with this. What company ever uses a .me domain? Especially when they have a really nice .com

        Heres hoping the malaysian car (insurance?) company changes their name and decides to sell the proton.com domain to them lol

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          1 year ago

          They are a lot cheaper. Maybe they didn’t want to pay for an expensive .com domain. The prices can be nuts, but usually only for short named ones.

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            1 year ago

            What? .com is generally around 10$/year and .me around 20$… In the grand scheme of things the cost of even the most expensive TLDs are inconsequential to a large operation like this.

            Now if you’re talking about buying back a domain from someone, sure. But that’s a one time thing, and proton surely could afford tens of thousands of dollars if they wanted to.