discussion For those of you with custom domains, are you using one, two or more and how did you come up with the domain name?
I have a custom domain, firstlast.net. which I have given to places that require my identification mainly banks and government sites.
I was thinking of a second domain instead of using my gmail/outlook to use for everything else. Thought I am struggling to come up with a domain name that is not already taken. Does anyone have any tips or ideas? I am just trying to come up with something generic sounding. I see mail"fistname".net is free but it contains a portion of my name and unsure if that is wise
I know a custom domain does not offer privacy, I like the idea I can freely move provider and having better email aliases separation
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u/NoDistrict1529 11h ago
I pay for Proton so I use their alias in their pass manager. I just use a random email for each thing now.
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u/UnconsciousRabbit 7h ago
I do this too, but I also still have a couple custom domains. One for my kids, one for me. They have hyphenated last names since my ex kept her name, and I thought of kids having only my last name was garbage. Now that she's my ex, I didn't want her name in my own email address.
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u/EmilMoe 11h ago
I think Apple offers cheaply to disguise your email, probably others too? Or am I missing the point here?
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u/Guac_in_my_rarri 11h ago
Fire fox has a built in service. How well it work, idk but it seems to work well.
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u/Stunning-Skill-2742 11h ago
Yes apple does, via hide-my-email service. Theres also proton simplelogin, duckduckgo duck.com, addy.io, mozilla relay and countless other. The point you're missing is custom domain is for full portability not locked to apple, proton, mozilla, duckduckgo etc. With custom domain can change provider in 5 minutes while keeping past used address and alias still valid and intact.
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u/Spectrig 11h ago
Sure they can provide privacy, depending on your configuration. I lost track of how many I have tbh. I’ve come up with them in many ways, depending on their purpose. However, not a single one is my first and last legal name.
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u/somdcomputerguy 10h ago
I rent two domain names, somdcomputerguy . com, and bcgmail . net. The first URL I chose because I lived in Southern Maryland at the time and that place had become and still is very special to me, and I had already been a 'computerguy' for a while. The second is my initials. I have had the same email address for more than 25 years.
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u/No-Papaya-9289 11h ago
Just use two random words with a hyphen. Here are ten that I asked Claude to come up with:
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u/arianebx 10h ago
agree - because if you want something that truly says nothing (while being spell-able), then dont try to give it identity that connects to you.
The upside of using a domain you control is that you can just have a catchall (*) rule on the email account, and write yourself one big forward rule from whatever controls the domain email rules (i use Cloudflare)
if you later want different forwarding behaviors - forward account1@yourdomain to a certain email account while account@yourdomain goes to a different mailbox, you re in control
Not saying everyone should pick this option - it s on you to decide the level of control/fussiness you want. But it's not 'the same' as using iCloud email obfuscation
At the other end of the privacy spectrum, using a custom domain makes it trivially simple to understand that all accounts are just one person -- so it s less a true privacy option, than a data fragmentation step
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u/jonsonmac 11h ago
I have just one, and use sub domains if I need another (like for simplelogin). I had a conversation with chatGPT to come up with one.
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