• basilikum a day ago

    As some people are confused about the name:

    > According to Canfield, he initially intended to use Cock.li only as his own personal email address. “It wasn’t until November [2013] that I posted the address on 4chan, and someone responded and said ‘I would love an email address there,’” Canfield said.

    > Other emails offered through Cock.li include horsefucker.org and goat.si—as well as other more vulgar domains we’ll refrain from printing here[...]

    https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-story-of-cockli-the-site...

    One of the most well known domain of them is nuke.africa although I don't know if email registration is still possible under that domain.

    Cock.li is the edge lord of fringe email providers and was down for quite some time for reasons I did not care to get into.

    • jrwr a day ago

      What a bad name for a webmail client

      • sam_goody a day ago

        That's a blunt way of saying it, but I agree with the sentiment.

        Which is a shame, because this is a project that could have had potential, but a poor name goes a long way towards discouraging it being taken seriously.

        • jrm4 a day ago

          Have we learned nothing from GIMP? No, no we have not.

          • tracker1 8 hours ago

            Git?

        • benj111 16 hours ago

          Well you're saying that from not just an Anglo centric pov but a US pov. 'Cockly' doesn't sound particularly bad to my British ears.

          But then I live not so far from Penistone, so maybe I'm just used to these kind of naming schemes.

        • grim_io a day ago

          For so much noise about cocks, there is a distinct lack thereof. What a scam!

          • K0balt a day ago

            What’s with the name? Is this somehow porn-adjacent?

            • Smoosh 21 hours ago

              Couldn’t it be rooster-adjacent?

              • reedciccio 18 hours ago

                I love your innocence! :)