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Buddy - instead of having to update your email from @gmail to @fastmap or @hey everywhere, get your own custom domain name! You keep the domain forever, and get
by lo_fye 6y ago
Buddy - instead of having to update your email from @gmail to @fastmap or @hey everywhere, get your own custom domain name! You keep the domain forever, and get gmail or fast mail or hey (feature coming soon to hey) to send and receive messages on behalf of your domain. Never update all those websites & friends again. Keep your same email address forever.
- k__ 6y agoThis, but I think it isn't easy to do with gmail.
- mrweasel 6y agoIt's actually extremely easy, if you pay.
- dageshi 6y agoYou used to be able to get gsuite for free with your own personal domain. A lot of people, especially on HN are probably still grandfathered in on that for the free tier. Nowadays I think you have to pay for using a custom domain.
- vidanay 6y agoI'm grandfathered into a legacy Google Apps for Your Domain account, and it's nice but there are downsides (it's ineligible for many Google services like Play Music - oh well /s)
- senorsmile 6y agoRIP google music
- Ayesh 6y agoI still use it! I have two separate "Google apps" for two domains, and I just add new domains as aliases. It allows you to separately select DKIM keys for even aliased domains. I don't know what's the limit for aliases, but I have at least 5 so far. All still free.
- e40 6y ago$6/mo for the lowest tier of Google Workspace (aka G Suite). I moved all my gmail stuff to a domain on it and now I feel protected. I can move in a couple of hours, if need be.
- meagher 6y agoHaving a custom domain is key! (https://meagher.co/own-your-email https://meagher.co/own-your-email) This service can work well for those looking to wean off of Gmail: https://forwardemail.net/en https://forwardemail.net/en
- sigmonsays 6y agoin addition to parents advice, You can also setup wildcard DNS and inbox, giving you the utmost flexibility in handing out e-mail addresses that are topic based, and not your private address.
- mberning 6y agoYou may get to keep the domain until the mob lobbies your registrar to drop you. An unlikely event to some, but it can and does happen.
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- HenryBemis 6y agoCare to explain what you mean by that? What mob? Who would force a registrar to drop my domain, assuming it's not c0ca-co1a.com (zero and one) or "I-Wanna-Kill-<insert politician's name>.kill"?
- falcolas 6y agoAny company with the trademark. And if they throw enough money at it, it won't matter who had it first (see: Amazon, Apple, /.+book/, etc).
- HenryBemis 6y agoAs I mentioned in my comment above, if my brother-sister-friend-mate (today) claims a domain called "amaz0n" (with a zero) then I would also support Amazon to go and take it off their hands. No apologies here. Unless they lived under a rock for the past 20 years, they know what Amazon is and (unfortunately) many young people are thinking of theThey know what they would know that this is shady. But if my surname is "Smithopapadoakarian" (assuming someone with UK-Greek-Armenian roots) or if my product/app/service is BakeAPizzaOnYourOverheatedLaptop.com then the Amazons of the world better be ready for a fight because there is no way in hell that they have a product like that (unless they made one before me).
- netizen-9748 6y agoUsing gmail means Google still gets to read your emails and metadata
- GloriousKoji 6y agoI did this for a few years but I found it to be a hassle, there's always that small percentage of websites that only accept well known email domains. And it's not like I can't use their services since it's for stuff like local utilities.
- antonvs 6y ago> there's always that small percentage of websites that only accept well known email domains. I've never come across that. Do you have any examples? There are hundreds of thousands of non-well-known domains that people use for email. It could be that your domain was missing expected setup, like SPF records, or you ended up on a blacklist somehow.
- vidanay 6y agoNearly 25 years running my own domain email and I have never encountered this either. (Currently using GAFYD for email, but at times it's been virtual hosted, as well as home hosted on a Pentium Pro and dial-up)
- HenryBemis 6y agoSame here, I have been running my own domain for 20 years. I have gotten the 'reverse' though... trying to register somewhere using a gmail throwaway account and getting the message that they do not accept free service emails.
- GloriousKoji 6y agoThere were a few obscure online stores that I can't remember but the ones I do remember I don't want to link for privacy reasons. One was a local water utility company and the other was my university which offered academic email address forwarding for alumni. It was silly as a Protonmail address also didn't work for one of them.
- newscracker 6y agoAnecdotal, but I've seen lazy/clueless developers in some companies who allow only a .com email address to be provided. And this was a few years ago. I don't recall the name. I'm not going to do any business with such services.
- PascLeRasc 6y agoFor people who have done this, what naming scheme do you use? firstlast@firstlast.com and first@last.com both feel awkward to me. I've seen me/hi/hey@firstlast.com which would be good for a public business email but feels pretentious for personal.