Nowoslawski says .pro and .info still send fine
The reseller versus manual comparison ended level, and the follow-up question was which cheap domains still land.
Eric Nowoslawski's comparison of hand-built Google portal inboxes against Zapmail inboxes finished level on reply rate, and the thread underneath it turned into a question about cheap TLDs. Asked by Christian whether he was seeing any other cheap extensions work, Nowoslawski's answer was short. "Pro and info is still fine."
Pro and info is still fine
Christian said his own team has been testing .xyz and has seen solid results, noting the domains are $2 each on Porkbun right now. That is one operator's read on his own sending, not a dataset, and he did not post volumes or reply rates alongside it.
What the original test actually was
The comparison, covered earlier, came from a customer who set their infrastructure up by hand. They bought domains one by one because they did not know how to buy in bulk, put them in their own company aged admin console, set each DKIM by hand, and paid full Google portal price for the inboxes before loading them into Smartlead manually.
Nowoslawski's side bought inboxes through the normal Zapmail process. He says the Zapmail inboxes had the same reply rate, and that the .pro domains had the best reply rate of the set. He framed the result as reassurance for anyone nervous about reseller deliverability.
For people sending
This is one customer, one comparison, and the TLD ranking inside it is an eyeballed read rather than a controlled split. Nowoslawski did not post how many domains were in each group, how many emails went out, or over what period. A .pro domain winning on one account's campaign is a reason to put a cell in your next test, not a reason to move a book of sending onto a $2 extension.
The cost argument is the real pull here. If .pro, .info and .xyz hold up at a few dollars a domain against the standard .com spend, the infrastructure line on an outbound budget changes shape. The way to find out is to run them as a tracked cell against your current domains on the same list and the same copy, and read reply rate rather than open rate.
not only did the Zapmail inboxes have the same reply rate, the .pro domains had the best reply rate
we've been playing around with .xyz too and have seen solid results, their $2 per on porkbun right now
Know what is landing before you burn another domain
One email a day. Under three minutes. What the operators found out yesterday.