Before you compare EU email providers, get your own domain. It is the single change that lets you switch providers later without redoing the painful migration.
  • Riddick3001@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    2 months ago

    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.

    • pimat@feddit.orgEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      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.

      • Pruning9165@feddit.orgEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        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

    • tburkhol@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      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.

    • asap@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      ______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.

    • Heiliger Strohsack@feddit.orgEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      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)