You… you shut up. 🥲
Use your domain for your primary email address, have some regrets about it, but never be able to walk away…
That’s what I do. Anytime I need to sign up for something with an email I do:
Same. Crazy obvious which companies are getting hacked or selling my info.
I do the same thing, but with gmail tags.
Now if I get a spam email to that address I’ll know exactly what to block.
I am amazed at how often that gets considered an invalid email.
Soooo. I’m dumb. I host my overseerr on my domain that just routes to my local IP for my local desktop. How do I get email on this domain without spending dumb money on an email hosting server?
PurelyMail is a great and cheap service. It’s like $10 per year. You just set up some records (MX and TXT) on your domain provider and that’s it.
You could also self-host email, but then you need a server that’s always powered on and it adds much complexity, so I suggest to use a managed service instead.
The good thing about using your own domain is that you’re not tied to any service. You could migrate to any other provider (such as ProtonMail, FastMail, etc.) without ever changing your email address on all services.
This is a good idea. I got free domain routing to Gmail through the plagued Google apps system years ago. It’s changed a bunch of times and is now workspaces and requires a monthly fee. I’m grandfathered in through original apps enrollment.
It’s like $10 per year.
Okay, but now you’re talking about $22/year and who even has that kind of money?
On the flip side my husband has held on to the domain he got for 22 YEARS., and never did anything with it. We finally got our emails up and running with it last week. Don’t let your dreams be dreams!
Out of curiosity; who is providing the mail service? Or are you self-hosting? Trying to organise mine, hoping I can get it done maybe 19 years quicker.
I use Hover. They’re based in Canada and I’ve been using them for years for my business domain and email. Was an easy choice for personal too. Every time I’ve had to call the tech support they have fixed the problem super fast, did extra stuff, and were super lovely. $20 a year for a small mailbox each, which is more than enough for us.
I just set my domain email up with Zoho. Was easy enough and they have a free option. Although I pay $1.25/mo per user for two users, just to get a little extra storage space and be able to use SMTP and ActiveSync to send email from my servers for notifications and use a different mobile app than their default one.
You know what’s worse? Starting a successful one that makes a whole ass salary and then having google updates smack it the f out.
What happened?
I’m gonna guess search engine down ranking.
whole-ass milk
Whole ass-milk
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lol I’ve been squatting a couple of domains since 2001, my day will come!!!
Start selfhosting. I use my domain for tons of stuff
I used noip.com for like 30 or 60 days. Then I got really annoyed at having to renew the DDNS every 30 days. After switching to duckdns.org I haven’t had any problems whatsoever. It’s completely free and you don’t have to renew anything manually. You obliviously still need to have a script running to update the DDNS though, otherwise it wouldn’t be very dynamic would it.
Same with the HP mini PC. But I have a $12/yr dotcom domain and a script on my server updates the DNS record anytime the IP changes.
My router can update the IP on its own if you configure properly
I recommend cloudflare WARP
no money spent
Well… electricity.
Yes, of course, but that mini PC uses 15 watts maximum. My main PC uses way more that that
How much are you selling for?
Selling? I host things for myself, not others. Except my Lemmy instance I suppose, that’s public.
This is the way. I would be lost without a domain. Even mail is selfhosted with my domain. But I only use subdomains, the real domain is abandoned.
See email is one of the few things I don’t host. I host a webmail frontend, and use my domain. But PurelyMail is an amazing service that’s so cheap it’s basically free at personal scale with very few limits. I didn’t really care to try and deal with having all my mail sent to spam.
Been with purely mail for about a year and it’s been great!
I just use stalwart - mail, it’s just one docker container, has bleeding edge functions like jmap and there is no need of deeper knowledge. I refer my domain on the settings and got a list of all needed dns-records.
It takes 2-4 days to get SSL and dmarc answers from the big mail-players and if there is nothing wrong with your IP or your records then there is no mail going into spam of someone else.
Don’t worry, the dream lives on!
VancesCouchSloppySeconds.com is still available!!!
I’d be tempted to buy that. When you visit it’s just a white page with a leather couch in the middle of the screen, everytime you click the couch it would moan seductively and every fifth click would give a squelch sound.
More like “Dammit, my domain auto-remewed again. Oh well, it’s only $12. I’ll cancel next year.” (It’s been 5 years.)
Oh this one cuts.
Wanted to start a blog about my weight loss journey. Lost the weight and never started the blog. Still paying for the domain 7 years later.
Only thing left to do is gain the weight back so I can try again!
Do a retro! Lol
This is why I never bought a domain. Can’t give up on your dreams if you never pursued them in the first place!
The domain was always for me to archive the things I enjoyed.
This whole thread is a gem. So many amazing websites. It’s inspired me to make a website and hopefully be a repo for all your websites like the old internet
I let one of mine expire a few years ago. Finally decided I wanted to try to register it again, but a squatter is now sitting on it asking for something like
$10k$3.6k.Edit: just double-checked, they lowered the price to only $3595!
And that’s why I’ll never give up my domain. Those vultures will immediately snap it.
Mine is on automatic renewal.
To a debit card on an account I closed months ago
Check. Mate.
let the ghosts fight it out
