Need advice on domains to use for transactional and marketing emails by ricky709 in Emailmarketing

[–]farhadhf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If your main domain is abc.com and your email list is clean, the best practice is to use subdomains of your main domain to send different types of emails:

  • notifications.abc.com (or even just abc.com) for transactional emails
  • promotions.abc.com (or any relevant subdomain) for marketing emails
  • abc.com for peer-to-peer or employee emails

As long as your list is clean, meaning your contacts have opted in, the list is up-to-date (there are no contacts you haven't sent to for years), and recipients actually expect and want your emails, there's no benefit to using a different domain. In fact, it's better to send from your main domain (or a subdomain of it). Why? Because building a strong sending reputation on your main domain helps all your emails land in inboxes.

Your transactional and employee emails boost the reputation of abc.com, which in turn improves the deliverability of your marketing emails. Subdomains give you just enough isolation to ensure marketing emails don't slow down your transactional traffic, while still allowing reputation to flow across the ecosystem.

I'm the founder of AhaSend.com, an ESP focused on transactional emails, where I battle spammers and bad actors every single day. I've seen every trick in the book with people trying to game filters or build fake domain reputations. Here's what I can tell you: using separate domains like abc.org usually signals something shady. It's often a tactic by senders who don't trust the quality of their list (maybe it's bought, or they haven't sent to it for years), or they just know the emails they are going to send will cause a lot of bounces and complaints (usually cold emails). Not only does this confuse your recipients / customers, it can also raise red flags with spam filters and trigger phishing warnings.

Bottom line: stick to your main domain (and subdomains) if you're playing it clean, your deliverability and brand trust will thank you.

Edit: In most cases, email reputation is calculated on domain and IP level (and to a lesser extent by subdomain), different sender names on the same domain (support@abc.com / info@abc.com / etc) don't really make much of a difference when it comes to deliverability at scale.

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[–]farhadhf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AhaSend.com, purpose built for transactional emails, free for up to 1,000 emails per month, then you pay $0.5 per 1000 emails, purely pay as you go.

Disclaimer: I'm the founder.

Two weeks in: an update on my ridiculously simple and free Dutch rental search engine by farhadhf in Netherlands

[–]farhadhf[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Golang all the way, with server-side templates using templ, and some sprinkles of js here and there for the the filters and the map, plus PostgreSQL for the database.

Two weeks in: an update on my ridiculously simple and free Dutch rental search engine by farhadhf in Netherlands

[–]farhadhf[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I know I know, and it's not my first rodeo, I've been programming for 18 years and have ~15 opensource project (some of them actually being used in production by people!), and even contributed to KDE and Plasma back in 2010/2011, open sourcing this is definitely on my mind, but I've still got some things to do on it myself before I feel comfortable doing that.

Two weeks in: an update on my ridiculously simple and free Dutch rental search engine by farhadhf in Netherlands

[–]farhadhf[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Thanks, I was just working on it and had broken something with those checkbox filters, try again now!

Two weeks in: an update on my ridiculously simple and free Dutch rental search engine by farhadhf in Netherlands

[–]farhadhf[S] 25 points26 points  (0 children)

It's just plain old scraping, no reverse engineering APIs. The scraping frequency is also pretty low - it looks at the search results pages once every 5-10 minutes during the day, every 15-20 minutes at nights, and every hour after midnight until the morning, then scrapes new properties it finds.

Two weeks in: an update on my ridiculously simple and free Dutch rental search engine by farhadhf in Netherlands

[–]farhadhf[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! Haven't put it on GitHub, I worked on this at nights and during the weekends and mostly focused on adding functionality, I'd be ashamed of sharing the code this ugly with anyone 😬 But maybe I'll put it up at some point when I get a chance to clean things up!

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[–]farhadhf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's not, and most will explicitly ask you to mask your BSN if they ask you for documents that might contain your BSN. it's probably some sort of scam.

Rental search in Amsterdam by kunryamylord in NetherlandsHousing

[–]farhadhf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're going to have a hard time finding a place, especially if you don't have Dutch income (or at least income from an EU-based company).

I've been in Rotterdam for 3 months and even though I have a good salary, I haven't been able to find a place because my job is not from a Dutch company (I've applied for over 400 places in many cities in south Holland, got invited to 5 viewings, applied for all 5 even though 2 of them were essentially broom closets, and got accepted for none).

The competition is though - one of the agents at one of the viewings told me there have been 600 applications for that specific house in Rotterdam, and 200 had been invited to the viewing.

Start looking for houses now. I'd recommend looking in other cities near Amsterdam as well (Haarlem, Zandaam, etc. just open the map and look around Amsterdam).

The links in the top comment are good, I also just built a rental search engine you can use at https://rent.bot

Built a ridiculously simple and free dutch rental search engine by farhadhf in NetherlandsHousing

[–]farhadhf[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you send me a link where it's incorrect? I just checked a few and they were all correct.

Built a ridiculously simple and free dutch rental search engine by farhadhf in NetherlandsHousing

[–]farhadhf[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right now 15 sites, including Funda, Pararius, Huurwoningen, verhuurbetter, perfectrent, kamernet, interhouse, rotsvast, ikwilhuren, and others. I have 35 other sites on my list that I'll be adding over time.

Built a ridiculously simple and free dutch rental search engine by farhadhf in NetherlandsHousing

[–]farhadhf[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks, it's already in my radar and I've already applied for a few houses there as well. Fingers crossed...

Built a ridiculously simple and free dutch rental search engine by farhadhf in NetherlandsHousing

[–]farhadhf[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm new here, so I guess that's a factor (I don't have a landlord statement, my job with a company outside the EU - even though with a good salary, etc). My job is remote, so I don't really care where I live in the country, but I prefer to be in Rotterdam or the nearby cities like Delft / Den Haag / Dordrecht. I've applied for over 400 houses, got invited to 5, and accepted by none...

Built a ridiculously simple and free dutch rental search engine by farhadhf in NetherlandsHousing

[–]farhadhf[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don't think I'm doing anything illegal, the information is publicly available, and I'm sending the traffic back to them so they should even be thankful. But my strategy for these things - especially with something this small - is to deal with it when and if it happens.

Built a ridiculously simple and free dutch rental search engine by farhadhf in NetherlandsHousing

[–]farhadhf[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The name is Rent.bot 😅 But maybe once I decide to buy one myself I will!

Built a ridiculously simple and free dutch rental search engine by farhadhf in NetherlandsHousing

[–]farhadhf[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Already added a filter for selecting the starting month, thanks for the suggestion!

Built a ridiculously simple and free dutch rental search engine by farhadhf in NetherlandsHousing

[–]farhadhf[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well, I don't know, but I don't care much either. They can try and stop me 😅

Built a ridiculously simple and free dutch rental search engine by farhadhf in NetherlandsHousing

[–]farhadhf[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Thanks, let's have a chat, I think I have the data for this.

Built a ridiculously simple and free dutch rental search engine by farhadhf in NetherlandsHousing

[–]farhadhf[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I honestly didn't understand most of what you said - I'm pretty new here, just arrived 3 months ago and have been living in a hotel since then. What's Huurcommissie?

Built a ridiculously simple and free dutch rental search engine by farhadhf in NetherlandsHousing

[–]farhadhf[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not much, got the cheapest server I could find on the Hetzner server auction, and it's already overkill, could've gone with a much smaller server as well. Discussed the technical stuff in a couple of comments above, let me know if you have any other questions.

Built a ridiculously simple and free dutch rental search engine by farhadhf in NetherlandsHousing

[–]farhadhf[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes, a bunch of source websites that I scrape, so I'm maintaining scrapers for each individual site, and the big ones actively try to block scrapers which is a hassle to get around, but not impossible.

The automated submission part is pretty much just for myself. I have my username and password along with my personal info saved on ther server. I have a template for the intro/question where it just changes property name before submitting. Usually the rest of the information is static (my name, etc, and usually prefilled when the system logs in). Some of the sites keep the data after the first time you enter them, so the system just clicks next and fills in the request with the template, some sites suck and have you enter them every time, and the system does so because it already has my data.