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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.
Sorry, buttplug.io is already taken so I don’t have any more ideas.
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.
For me it was just numbers .xyz and I am happy with that. Date of birth if you use it for private stuff and its $1 a month at namecheap.com.
Unfortunately many spammers use .xyz because it’s cheap and the nic abuse doesn’t do anything about that (even maybe it is complicit)
The result is that many mail servers block .xyz altogether
______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.
The first one I registred back then was uncreative yet convenient: My full legal name. I like to advise almost anyone to do so.
For all the places where you do not need or want to reveal your identity you can use something harmless website3001 (or just any random number)
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
You can use a domain with proton mail. And when proton turns into garbage someday, you register your domain with a different mail provider. That way you get to keep your mail address.
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)
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.
You setup both addresses in thunderbird, then simply drag and drop all the emails from one side to the other
I’m praying this since for more than 20 years.
I’m addicted to the Gmail webmail, does anyone know a webmail that can be similar?
Maybe roundcube with a mess of hundreds of plugins?
Crossbox is nice but the price is unaffordable (pricing designed for a hosting with thousands of users)
I’ve used round cube about 7 years ago, but it was a very poor experience in comparison with gmail back then. Gmail hasn’t really changed anything since, except that it got less reliable, I can only hope that there now are better open source web mail clients; there can’t be worse
