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So I was curious and I just checked their sign up process. You can choose between @proton.me and @protonmail.com.
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
They got the me domain originally for pm.me and probably just continued it with proton.me. Love my pm.me email
Same!
It makes perfect sense to redirect to proton.me now that they offer a suite of services. It would hardly make sense for all of google’s services to be under gmail.com as an example.
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.
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.