I am starting to move away from gmail to proton and I had someone ask me if proton.me was a personal domain name. I wish! People expect gmail or other common domains and don't know what to do if you give them something other than that.

Agreed. I'm confused why tech geeks would expect normies to understand this stuff. It's like, "I dropped a Ferrari engine into my Toyoto Corolla, and when I brought it to the Toyota dealer, the mechanic was confused--It's so wierd."

I'm a huge nerd for TLDs and that's is just awesome. My last name is too obscure to have something that cool but it's so neat to have that as an option.