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.
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.
I made mine firstname@lastname.me but I also have it set up with proton Mail as a catchall email address so I can give out literallyanything@lastname.me and it all goes to the same inbox with the ability to filter and send some addresses strait to trash.
I used to do that, but it caught far too much spam sent to random usernames on every domain. Now I have a fixed prefix and do prefix+literallyanything@lastname.me, which gives the same benefits with less spam.
I’ll check that out but I like to do things like amazon@lastname.me for each service and when I get spam to that same address I know who sold my email address. Not that I really do anything about it but send that address to spam but I like to know.
It is like a tattoo: Do not think too much about the first or third tattoo/domain. the tenth will give you an feeling and the 15th you feel completed. Just start with one and as soon as you have control over your first digital cert endpoint, you can forward easy from it to any other domain in you control and depricating out unwanted domains over years without problems. It is a road not the destination to choosen your first domain. Hit the Road Riddick and don’t you come back no more.
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.
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.
buttplug42069.xxx however is wide open
Turn goetzi into a search engine!
Goetzi’s the fossilized goatse meme they found in the alps, right?
I made mine firstname@lastname.me but I also have it set up with proton Mail as a catchall email address so I can give out literallyanything@lastname.me and it all goes to the same inbox with the ability to filter and send some addresses strait to trash.
I used to do that, but it caught far too much spam sent to random usernames on every domain. Now I have a fixed prefix and do prefix+literallyanything@lastname.me, which gives the same benefits with less spam.
Maybe I’m just lucky, I don’t get spam like that… Yet. I’ve had that setup for a few years now though.
On all my domains I always get spam at info@domain because the lazy marketers just scrape a list of domains and assume most of them has info@
It’s actually a honeypot that will add the sender to a blocklist
You don’t use the simplelogin (now part of proton pass) random or custom address generation? You can use your own custom domain with it.
I’ve been doing this with nearly every new account as it’s normally email or phone which third party data sharing is keyed off of.
I’ll check that out but I like to do things like amazon@lastname.me for each service and when I get spam to that same address I know who sold my email address. Not that I really do anything about it but send that address to spam but I like to know.
It is like a tattoo: Do not think too much about the first or third tattoo/domain. the tenth will give you an feeling and the 15th you feel completed. Just start with one and as soon as you have control over your first digital cert endpoint, you can forward easy from it to any other domain in you control and depricating out unwanted domains over years without problems. It is a road not the destination to choosen your first domain. Hit the Road Riddick and don’t you come back no more.
Can confirm, I have 4 domains. Help
My registrar told me that I could have a 5% permanent discount if I registered, transferred or renewed 80 domains.
I now have so many unused domains for that ideas that I will never have the time to implement
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)
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
In roman numerals
What, not binary?
______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.
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