Will there be any issues with a .place domain for email?
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This doesn't change the situation at all. Each mail server has their own whitelists and blacklists. Some mailservers have explicit whitelists and will throw into the spam folder anything not on the whitelist. You could have a perfectly configured mail server and be doing everything right, but because your TLD isn't on the whitelist its throw into spam regardless.
Mail is super hard.
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Also get the yyyplace.com as a fallback. Some (many?) places don’t allow signups with newer TLDs.
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Having a standard TLD to go with the nonstandard will be helpful.
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I encountered it now multiple times that new TLD are discriminated against. They are more likely to get blocked. This applies not only to Mails also to any more controlled network like free wifi networks or business networks.
Go with a classic .com .net .org or a country TLD if you can.
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as a direct product of enshittification, google and friends routinely undermine the open internet and make life difficult for people who selfhost, businesses and private parties alike.
so your emails not arriving in gmail's inbox is because google wants you to use gmail and/or their business account, not plain email. there is no mechanism where you can mark a non-gmail correspondent as safe and someone you always want to receive comms from. except, if you offload your sending either to g&f or one of the 3rd-party senders like mailchimp, sendinblue, etc. who have a direct pipe into google's infra and are not subject to any of those harassment tactics.
so, not having a .com domain is possibly less ideal, but that pales in comparison to the above; if you're communicating with non-gmail/outllok/etc contacts, it don't matter. if you do - again, it doesn't matter.
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I use one of the "new" gtld domains for email. It works and I pay for a provider to do all the heavy lifting like your case, but you would have to configure DMARC, DKIM and SPF for your own domain. The big problem isn't the technical part. It's the clueless people who can't imagine anyone not having a gmail address (the "why can't you just have a normal gmail like everyone else" crowd). Some retail and government sites also flat out refuse email addresses that don't end in traditional tlds (.com, .net, etc) or the country-specific tld. In the end, I ended up creating a gmail address for those morons which redirects to my inbox after months of struggling.
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Thank you. That does sound annoying but .com is both boring and more expensive.
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I would go with .com for simplicity, sometimes other TLDs will be blocked by spam or DNS filters in my experience.
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It's not boring. It's just much more difficult to find a valuable .com domain. Working in business, receiving an email from a .place domain would likely go right in the trash.
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My work (which only has 99.9% uk based clients) has an Exchange server that automatically blocks any email that isnt one of the above, plus .co.uk and .uk.com
Saves on so much spam, 1000+ per day. I think twice in 20 years we had to manually unblock a .fr and .au domain
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Idk about "boring", a domain name like "rip17762025.com" would be a quite funny one for an American
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.com is $15/yr for most domains, .place is $22/yr for renewals. Not sure where you're shopping or if you're eyeing some sort of premium domain, but generally it's cheaper.
I have both, a domain on "new" TLD (like .place) that is my main but has hiccups on certain websites, and a cheap .com that I have tied to SimpleLogin for generating per-site throwaway addresses. This setup works great for me.
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Same issue hit me, some government and banking services wouldn't accept my .info and .services domains, so I have a backup .com for those.
Wish I didn't need it though, its 2025.
