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.
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.