No suggested pricing is a real killer. Will this be dollars, tens of dollars or hundreds of dollars per year?
Email deliverability from .agent is likely to be terrible even from mailservers with good reputation, similar to how bad .work and other alternate TLDs are when trying to send emails from them.
Seems like a neat project, but outside of Fastmail and selfhosting your own mailserver, there has not been much traction for JMAP over the decade it has been around.
IMAP meanwhile is still nearly universally supported, and there are many independent mail providers that will host your inbox for a low cost without being locked into paying Fastmail or running your own infrastructure.
Economically the EU might not keep pace, but the built infrastructure to live an enjoyable life is there.
I certainly had a delightful time visiting the winter markets across Europe, and it seemed like there were a fair number of people living well.
While the Eurozone might not be a great place to start a new business it is still a going concern, enough that those top 50 companies all have a European presence.
213.136.8.188 appears to not respond to telnet from any ISP I attempt to connect to it on, I wonder if its just not bound to port 23 on IPv4 or the ISP is filtering port 23. IPv6 works fine to connect.
There are so many businesses that are operating without a website and without reviews.
The bottom line is if you are selling electrical equipment to Amazon, do you really need a web presence or reviews? Your internal advocates will make sure Amazon buys from you, since they know the equipment you deliver will be UL Listed, direct from the OEM, etc.
This same line of reasoning goes for so many other lines of business. Reviews only kinda matter for retail and restaurant businesses, and the second you leave certain specific regions you are literally better off going to a 3.6 star business with 600 reviews than a 4.5 star business with 600 reviews despite both purporting to offer the same thing.
That is an illicit robocall, and you can pursue Backblaze under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. I would recommend filing a small claims court case, there is no gray zone for Backblaze to be making AI robocalls in.
Cisco Unified Call Manager almost certainly has vulnerabilities, as does Metaswitch which has shambled along in network cores after Microsoft publicly murdered it, Oracle SBC is often wonky just doing the basics, whatever shambling mess Teams is shipping this week for their TRouter implementation definitely has Denial of Service bugs that I can't properly isolate.
Lets not even talk about the mess of MF Tandems or almost every carrier barebacking the web by slinging raw unencrypted UDP SIP traffic over the internet...
It is possible to build secure systems in this space, but instead we have almost every major telecom carrier running proprietary unmodifiable platforms from long dead companies or projects (Nortel, Metaswitch,etc) and piles of technical debt that are generally worse than the horribly dated and unpatched equipment that comprises their networks.
Verizon also will mark your line as hotlined, disabling all functionality if you use a device that works but they don't like or if your late in payment or trip up another undisclosed trigger.
I wonder how long I have on T-Mobile, I keep getting texts like "T-Mobile: Action needed. VoLTE settings may be affecting service quality for phones on your account.". On this particular account there is a single Nord N200 5G bought from T-Mobile, and as far as I can tell VoLTE works fine on it.
T-Mobile is in a similar boat as they have a narrow chunk of 600Mhz dedicated to 5G service, but they own a bunch of spectrum right above 2.4Ghz WiFi (usable with much more powerful radios) that should enable 1100Mbps speeds and higher, but it will take another year or two to see it widely deployed.
I thought these were pretty regulated? Hence groups like Marine Safety Supply existing, just to check that the safety gear works, has batteries, isn't degraded from harsh conditions, etc
This sounds like two Point of Sale software companies I used to interact with.
PCAmerica sold themselves to a credit card processor that was then also acquired, and the POS software has been frozen in amber the last 5 years (with the same terrible bugs). Their market share has collapsed since then, as software support has been outsourced to India and they cobranded with Heartland Payments.
The other POS company is still struggling to survive, they have a couple large accounts but they are all using the legacy codebase built atop VB6, and their C#/Angular.js rewrite is still missing most of the features they had 15 years ago, despite 4 full time developers working on it since 2015.
Admittedly, the latter company seemed like a series of unfortunate events. They bet on Index Payments (Started by some Googlers, bought to be scrapped by Stripe which told grocers nationwide that they were going to brick their payments), did not chase large volume accounts that could have funded more developers & support, and inevitably missed the mark by rewriting a large application and halting forward progress.
Email deliverability from .agent is likely to be terrible even from mailservers with good reputation, similar to how bad .work and other alternate TLDs are when trying to send emails from them.