The curse of the .science domain: why this site moved to jameswil.com

This site used to live at jwilliams.science. It now lives at jameswil.com, because a domain that some readers cannot open is not a domain.

The reason is the TLD, not the site. .science was cheap at launch and got used accordingly, so it carries a poor reputation with the blocklists that corporate proxies, university filters and mail gateways buy in wholesale. Those lists work at the TLD level. Nothing on my site was ever assessed. Readers on several Canadian networks simply got a block page, and a CV link that returns a block page is worse than no link.

Mail is the sharper edge. A .science address in a From header is enough to score a message into a junk folder before anything else about it is read, which matters when the message is an application.

The lesson is dull and worth stating: a novelty TLD is not a saving, it is a deliverability decision made once and paid for repeatedly. Old links redirect, and the five references to the old domain still sitting in project pages are next.