I had a similar issue when I first brought my iPad. Turns out, Apple doesn't like custom domains for emails. So, I had to make an Apple account with a Gmail account, then remove the Gmail account and add my email address with the custom domain.

Why? Who knows. Still remember my first experience after buying an iPad.

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cosmic_cheese 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Might've had something to do with the state of the various email security measures on the domain. I have an Apple account on a custom domain with Fastmail and it's never been a problem.

	▲	HexDecOctBin 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Mine was also managed by Fastmail. And no one else has ever had a problem with it (including Apple when I added it after signing up).

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k12sosse 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You have to reach a human to make a Flickr account in 2025 if you use a custom domain. It wasn't too difficult, they gave me some reason about abuse. Whatever.

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afandian 10 hours ago | parent [-]

What does custom domain mean? Just an email provider other than the mainstream ones?

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gortok 2 hours ago | parent [-]

You purchase your own domain name and use that domain name as your email address. For instance, if I had an email address that was me@afandian.com; the afandian.com would be a custom domain. It's not routed to @gmail.com, it's routed to @afandian.com. Now in practice you can have a custom domain and still have it managed by Google's Mail servers; but it's the domain name itself that sends up the flags.

	▲	afandian an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah that's what I thought GP meant. It just seems like it should be so commonplace. It just seems ridiculous that it means > You have to reach a human