I got [surname].de over twenty years ago and I am so happy about that. Google can gargle my balls, I run postfix, rspamd, dovecot and roundcube.
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I did too. I feel smug when I'm asked for my email.
I have a complicated surname, so when people ask for my email I just show them my ID and say "firstname@lastname.de" and they can type it in, reading it off the card.
It's made my life so easy!
I also kept all of my spam mails of the last twenty years and trained rspamd with it. It's got a 99.9% success rate. I'd even argue it works better than some corporate mail providers (what also helps is that I provide the mail service for friends & family as well and we are all collectively training the database).
It was a pain to setup initially, but I don't want to miss it.
Leaving this link here might get me a lot of downvotes, but I for one am not going to set up my own domain for personal mail and am happy using Proton. They offer a tool for gmail users: https://proton.me/blog/proton-mail-connect-gmail
The benefit is that you can keep the same email if/when a provider enshittifies, including proton.
Custom domains are a lot like open sourcing in software; helps keep the SaaS honest. If most customers use a custom domain, the service provider would act based on the knowledge that they could lose most customers easily.
Okay? Or just setup forwarding
This is a neat trick but also very unprivate as your mail will be unique and a huge barrier (monetary)
This is a neat trick but also very unprivate as your mail will be unique and a huge barrier (monetary)
What is huge? The costs for a domain are next to nothing.
Where you recommend to buy a domain?
I had the exact same question and found this overview from hostinger and decided to go with porkbun because renewal is cheap and the website's search works with only porkbun's javascript (in contrast to spaceship which was the cheapest but even loaded some js from bing
edit: according to forbes porkbun has more TLDs than spaceship
I've been thinking about registrating my own domain ( again) but I can't settle or lack imagination for an easy recognisable name format for us. Anyone ideas?
Also there's a connection to selfhosted here, but I need to delve a bit deeper maybe.
I made mine firstname@lastname.me but I also have it set up with proton Mail as a catchall email address so I can give out literallyanything@lastname.me and it all goes to the same inbox with the ability to filter and send some addresses strait to trash.
I used to do that, but it caught far too much spam sent to random usernames on every domain. Now I have a fixed prefix and do prefix+literallyanything@lastname.me, which gives the same benefits with less spam.
You don't use the simplelogin (now part of proton pass) random or custom address generation? You can use your own custom domain with it.
I've been doing this with nearly every new account as it's normally email or phone which third party data sharing is keyed off of.
I'll check that out but I like to do things like amazon@lastname.me for each service and when I get spam to that same address I know who sold my email address. Not that I really do anything about it but send that address to spam but I like to know.
______mail.com, just come up with something available to fill the blank.
Then, use unique addresses for all services you sign up for, and they look like individual accounts created at some mail service.
You can even make a boilerplate static site at the domain to look like a genuine mail service.
Sorry, buttplug.io is already taken so I donβt have any more ideas.
buttplug42069.xxx however is wide open
Turn goetzi into a search engine!
It is like a tattoo: Do not think too much about the first or third tattoo/domain. the tenth will give you an feeling and the 15th you feel completed. Just start with one and as soon as you have control over your first digital cert endpoint, you can forward easy from it to any other domain in you control and depricating out unwanted domains over years without problems. It is a road not the destination to choosen your first domain. Hit the Road Riddick and don't you come back no more.
surfhosted.com
five random letters. short enough to be easily memorizable & easily communicated by voice. no homophones, even in other languages. no one going to try to buy the domain out from under you. You could try four random letters, but that runs more risk of colliding with acronyms.
I thought about it, but doesn't it have it's own disadvantages? Like higher chances of your letters end up in spam?
Only if you also host it yourself. I connected my domain to proton and it works great. Best part is though that you can switch the host whenever and nobody is even gonna notice. Your address will stay the same and you can even migrate over your mailbox to new providers.
Main issue for me is my current mails. How easy/hard is it to move everything i already have over to the new provider.
It actually very easy - majority of email providers have a email transfer service; and if thats not your cup of tea then you can manually export and import them.