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I have a .com that is getting a ton of email intended for the business using the .co extension.
It's a billion dollar company and they recently rebranded to the .co.

I have both employees and customers sending emails, intended for the .co company, to my .com.

It's easy to see why the issue is from both company employees and customers alike.

.co/.com

Has anyone else experienced email intended for .co going to the .com?
 
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I have a .com that is getting a ton of email intended for the business using the .co extension.
It's a billion dollar company and they recently rebranded to the .co.

I have both employees and customers sending emails, intended for the .co company, to my .com.

It's easy to see why the issue is from both company employees and customers alike.

.co/.com

Has anyone else experienced email intended for .co going to the .com?
You must reffering mostly to US companies and customers, because Canadian users will go to CA mostly, Australians to com.au South Africans to Co.za, Chinese to cn, Europeans to their own own cctlds and so on. There aren't to many countries dependent on com outside US. I own a few good Co's where com was developed, but not really getting to many emails.
 
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You must reffering mostly to US companies and customers
In my case it is a US base with offices throughout the world. Although some of the employees throughout the world are adding the 'm' to the end.
 
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In my case it is a US base with offices throughout the world. Although some of the employees throughout the world are adding the 'm' to the end.
Can you share from which countries, outside US are these employees? I can't visualize exactly from which countries they will be. For example, if you are from an EU country, like France and you are used with fr extension, no matter what other extension you will use, you will pay attention, because you are not used to it. It will interesting to know what other countries are we talking about. Also, I have a few coms where the equivalent with hyphens are developed by a US company, with at least a few millions revenue and I don't get any emails from them either.
 
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Can you share from which countries, outside US are these employees? I can't visualize exactly from which countries they will be. For example, if you are from an EU country, like France and you are used with fr extension, no matter what other extension you will use, you will pay attention, because you are not used to it. It will interesting to know what other countries are we talking about. Also, I have a few coms where the equivalent with hyphens are developed by a US company, with at least a few millions revenue and I don't get any emails from them either.
Specifically Canada and South America. I would need to do further research to find others, but the basic info was a clue on their origin.
 
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Specifically Canada and South America. I would need to do further research to find others, but the basic info was a clue on their origin.
I know that Canada is using sometimes .com, but they are used to .ca mostly. I would expect to type more often .ca instead of .co, than replacing it with .com. As regarding South America, I know that I have deal't a few times with them, but mostly they stick to .com. I have a few .com's equivalents to Brazil, Argentina and Colombia, but they weren't interested to much about the .com, so that means that it will be hard to get them typed by mistake. I even have a few .com's dropped and available and the brazilian companies using the equivalent cctlds never picked them up for free. It could be smaller countries, like Ecuador, Uruguay, Bolivia...maybe somebody else who has experience dealing with them could share some extra info.
 
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True story, Aged 10 my mum washed my mouth out with fairy liquid at a attempt to discipline me, I think it was when i told her - you ever take me to church again our relationship will not be salvageable. She had no evidence to support her claims............ so the rest was history

I agree with you on your response to your mother's behavior,
but I receive leaked emails every day

quite a few with sensible data


those are only from my not in use domains ( for sale )
proof:

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Not only email leaks happens with .co to .com but also there are several country code top-level domains where .com is placed before the country code: example: .com.au; .com.sa; .com.br and etc.

They too get entertained with the leaks!
 
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I have a .com that is getting a ton of email intended for the business using the .co extension.
It's a billion dollar company and they recently rebranded to the .co.

I have both employees and customers sending emails, intended for the .co company, to my .com.

It's easy to see why the issue is from both company employees and customers alike.

.co/.com

Has anyone else experienced email intended for .co going to the .com?
That is extremely rare as 91% of people double check to make sure they are sending email to the right address and .co is a very well known extension actually more common then .com in many circles. Plus, if or when they don't get a reply the first thing they'd do is check their sent mail box and see they sent it to wrong place. Most people if they don't get a response within 12 hours assume they sent to wrong person/company. What you experienced is extremely rare.
 
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That is extremely rare as 91% of people double check to make sure they are sending email to the right address
Going by your numbers that's 9% not double checking. You can imagine the emails and sensitive information being leaked.

.co is a very well known extension actually more common then .com in many circles.
I am not sure of this statement, but hey, if you know of some circles where .co is more common than .com, please share.
 
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I have a .com that is getting a ton of email intended for the business using the .co extension.
It's a billion dollar company and they recently rebranded to the .co.

I have both employees and customers sending emails, intended for the .co company, to my .com.

It's easy to see why the issue is from both company employees and customers alike.

.co/.com

Has anyone else experienced email intended for .co going to the .com?

.co is the worst in this respect, because people assume they heard ".com" when email is communicated orally.

And, people tend to just automatically type ".com" in the end, even when they know it is .co, for the emails. Hence the employees doing the mistake.
 
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In China, fake Rolex sells well, so does .co, in my view the .co is like a replica of .com.
 
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In China, fake Rolex sells well, so does .co, in my view the .co is like a replica of .com.

.co is shorter. Shorter domains are better, right?
 
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.co is shorter. Shorter domains are better, right?
The shorter is better only if "When a thing is rare it becomes precious".
for example: x.com, xx.com, xxx.com
 
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You have a high chance of selling that domain name to them if you can show prove that they are sending email to you.
 
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This is a huge problem for companies that didn't understand or didn't realize what was going on.

Most of the leaked emails were harmless. But occasionally I received confidential price quotes, invoices, password resets, and even verification emails.

It is not just .co to .com leaks. I see .io, .ai, .net, .org leaked to .com just because many people just habitually type the .com in everything. Besides TLD leaks, I also see typo leaks as well.
 
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Interesting thread. I have a domain that received a "leaked email" that contained sensitive information regarding a domain name sale.

It was for a six figure sum and I believe the company is now a unicorn or on it's way to being one. The buyer had an .io and the seller was selling the .com. They have since purchased the .com and seem to have grown faster ever since.

So I can agree that while it may be rare, there are oftentimes when leaked emails contain highly sensitive information.
 
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Going by your numbers that's 9% not double checking. You can imagine the emails and sensitive information being leaked.


I am not sure of this statement, but hey, if you know of some circles where .co is more common than .com, please share.
But the 9% that don't double check don't always send wrong email they just aren't careful.
 
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Start an affair in the workplace. lol
 
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