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!!

  • CosmicTurtle@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    More and more services are REQUIRING a gmail/outlook/etc. account simply because bots/scammers bombard their services. It’s their cheap captcha.

    I’m seeing it more and more and it infuriates me to no end.

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        10 months ago

        The last one I encountered was one of the AI tools. I can’t remember which one. They are popping up like fucking Starbucks now.

        They required using your Gmail, Outlook, or Discord credentials.

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      10 months ago

      You mean those websites that instead of email input fields there are multiple horizontal stripes saying “Login with Google” and such?

      I hate them, too… but I suppose it’s for the mobile crowd that don’t make distinctions between sms, fb/whatsapp messages, and email altogether.

      I wonder if all those gmail accounts will be seen like yahoo addresses one day.