I have a unique name, think John Doe, and I’m hoping to create a unique and “professional” looking email account like johndoe@gmail.com or john@doe.com. Since my name is common, all reasonable permutations are taken. I was considering purchasing a domain with something unique, then making personal family email accounts for john@mydoe.com jane@mydoe.com etc.

Consider that I’m starting from scratch (I am). Is there a preferred domain registrar, are GoDaddy or NameCheap good enough? Are there prebuilt services I can just point my domain to or do I need to spin up a VPS and install my own services? Are there concerns tying my accounts to a service that might go under or are some “too big to fail”?

I can expand what hangs off the domain later, but for now I just need a way to make my own email addresses and use them with the relative ease of Gmail or others. Thanks in advance!!

  • Moonrise2473@feddit.itEnglish
    4·
    10 months ago

    Purchase the domain with cloudflare, for email it depends how you use it:

    With an email client like thunderbird:

    A cheap service like mxroute is perfect

    If you need to use a webmail:

    You need to pay a lot because the free webmails are all unusable for advanced use.

    Good options:

    • Zoho at $1 per user per month
    • Exchange with ovh at €3 per user per month

    Bad options:

    • Google workspace at $10 per month per user plus the blood rights for your firstborn and pray that they don’t alter the deal
    • proton pro at $9 per user per month but IMHO is extremely overrated for what they offer at their price point (unless you need end to end encryption when emailing other proton users)
    • BlueBockser@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      +1 for own domain and some email hosting service. That also makes it pretty easy to switch providers because you can simply point your MX records etc. somewhere else - no need to change the actual email address.

      I can also recommend mailbox.org as an alternative to mxroute, they’re even a little cheaper at $3/month (mxroute is $49/year at minimum).