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Ask HN: What do you use your vanity domain for?
I finally grabbed a vanity domain, just for the email address (firstname@lastname.com). Now that I've got my email set up I'm wondering what other uses there are for this domain.
Ideas so far:
- Subdomains for various project websites
- Resume
- Links to past project or code repos
- Personal Blog
Anyone have any other good things they use their vanity domain for?
- actionowl 6y agoI use it not only for my personal email, but also for email aliases. Whenever I sign up for anything I create a new email alias (foo@mydomin.com) pointed at my primary email. This helps me thwart faulty unsubscription services by just deleting the alias as needed or by detecting when a service has shared my email with 3rd parties or has been breached.
- ddingus 6y agoRight now, almost nothing. I have in the past used it for: Writing, was originally a weblog, then blog. Testing of various services. Email tricks of various kinds. Did a spam map at one point handing out email addresses containing company names. They literally all sold out!
- ecesena 6y agoAt least, redirect to linkedin/twitter/github. Quick&dirty but easy to maintain.
- enonevets 6y agoI have domains for email, self-hosted software, internal tools, and private access.
- kazinator 6y ago> Anyone have any other good things they use their vanity domain for? Remote access.
- kazinator 6y agoScratch that: a non-vanity domain will do for that. Comment misunderstands question.
- mattbgates 6y agoUsed to have my own name domain but eventually registered a business LLC and now do everything through there.
- Jeremy1026 6y agoIf its a fairly common last name, you could sell email addresses for otherfirstnames@lastname.com. That whats <mylastname>.com is being used for.