Why is my icloud. com address viewed as invalid by some websites?

I am extremely frustrated! Having decided to move my mail management from Google for privacy reasons, I set up an icloud.com email address. Most of the time it works OK, but for some reason, when I try to join a forum for example, I find that my email address is not accepted. I tried to utilise CNET for example but it rejects my icloud.com address but would accept gmail. This has happened on a number of websites. What is the problem here! Moving to icloud seems to have given me a problem, which I could do without.

You would have to ask the particular websites in question.
There is nothing different about an iCloud.com email address.
Does the address you've chosen contain any unusual characters that some websites may mistakenly think are invalid?

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