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[–] ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee 3 points 3 days ago (3 children)

My own domain?!? Any suggestions??

[–] socsa@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago

Furrysmurfporn.ai is available

[–] AllYourSmurf@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Whatever name fits your fancy. Go with solid registrars like Namecheap or cloudflare.

Once you get your domain, you can use most any email provider to handle mail for that domain. Fastmail is really good. Or proton if you want the encryption.

[–] Redex68@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Gotta also recommended porkbun for a registrar, had a great experience with then.

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Porkbun + runbox here. Domain and email together cost less than $30 a year. You can use the domain for free with GitHub pages or cloudflare for a free website too.

[–] Redex68@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I personally picked Mailfence, but I saw both runbox and mailfence are really good. Tho Mailfence is a bit more expensive

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 days ago

That’s pretty much my setup, it is not super hard to get working, it’s basically just copying and pasting the magic numbers they give you

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Get something on .com or .net. Vanity tlds will piss off reputation services. And make sure you set up spf/dkim

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Other reason is the renew fees for special tlds are so unpredictable. Com is surprisingly cheap to renew.