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I've been using my own domain for a bunch of years and I'm not totally convinced it's worth it. People are not used to email addresses with personal domains. I
by ziml77 5y ago
I've been using my own domain for a bunch of years and I'm not totally convinced it's worth it.
People are not used to email addresses with personal domains. I've had people get confused by my email address when I speak it to them. I've switched to just giving out my gmail address if I ever have to speak it instead of being able to write it down.
And developers don't account for custom domains when obscuring your email address. me@myfullname.tld is usually obscured as m**@myfullname.tld. That's pretty bad on password reset forms since it lets someone easily turn my username into my real name. If I had registered with myfullname@gmail.com, they'd get nothing interesting.
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- cube00 5y agoGiven the way any provider can lock you out at any time using your own domain is absolutely worth it. I've found if you use something like firstname@lastname.tld people generally get it if they've dealt with any other business email addresses (in some cases it actually makes you appear more professional). They usually have your first and last names before you get onto email addresses so they can piece it together and validate it. If you're really worried about password resets showing your domain get a second domain and only use that for online transactions, it can then be as obscure as you like. Sure there's an extra cost to that but it's a trade off of cost vs the level of privacy you want.
- pseudalopex 5y agoPeople are used to addresses with work domains. The only difference I see is you don't have to tell them how to spell gmail.com.