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> Heck people already scratch their heads when an email isn't hosted @gmail.com or @hotmail/outlook.com.

What people? Are they in the room with us right now?

Anyone that works at a small/medium/large company has an email address @company.com

I've heard plenty of stories of people saying "my email is fred@fredsmith.com" and it being input by a customer rep as "fred@fredsmith.com@gmail.com". Or them asking "At gmail.com or hotmail?" and you have to explain "No, at fredsmith.com".

I use some Polish email provider - the amount of times websites say my email must not be valid because it's @[service].pl was way too high :(

Except most normal people don't use their corporate email address for personal stuff.

I've always used a custom domain for my main email addresses and whenever I've had to give it to someone else verbally it inevitably leads to some amount of confusion. At the very least they get thrown off by the fact that I didn't say gmail/outlook/yahoo after the @ and I have to repeat the domain name.

>Except most normal people don't use their corporate email address for personal stuff.

This does not line up with what I've seen in the world.

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