: Is it a good practice to use Gmail, Yahoo Mail & Hotmail addresses for registration? I am designing a website in which clients should register to use some specific services, and I am trying

@Dunderdale272

It's not if you decide to limit your users' login options to those domains.

Many people will use services like yahoo.ca or yahoo.cn or AOL or their ISP or company domain as a primary mail service. You are disabling all of them from your website.

Note that users who use their company or personal websites as primary emails are usually advanced users who will likely be more valuable than others.

Even those who have emails in one of the services you offer with the domains you support (because most of these services have internationalization domains), they will be offended by seeing this, and will likely be a minus point for your site.

Alternatively, offer those as OpenID services, optionally. This will encourage any of the users of those services to use them to login, so, most of your users will come from those services, which is good enough.

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@Kaufman445

Yes, you can use Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail or other login api's. This is good practice because the user doesn't want to register on many sites and remember the login details. It irritates the user. They prefer to use these service to login each time.

This increases the programmers effort in retrieving and handling the data, but from the users point of view this is better.

You can use openId services to accomplish it.

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