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Ask HN: I have bought myself an e-mail domain, now what?

4 points by a-saleh ↗ HN
As a weird new year's resolution I have decided to buy myself a domain.

Mostly, because I wanted to start a blog, with hope that one day it might help me with job hunting, if such need arises. And I like writing, and even if I write 3 posts this year, it is better than if were 0 :-)

What I wonder, should I start using the domain as my email address as well?

In my mind, for using it as email address:

* name@surname.net trumps nickname@gmail.com, especially if I needed to communicate with somebody who doesn't know me yet

* my identity on the net would be better separated from my email provider

Against:

* decent mail provider costs ~50$/year

* I don't plan to go job hunting or start a side-business

* for official things I use surname@university and it is working out fine

But maybe I am missing out and 50$ a year isn't a big deal anyway :-)

What do you think?

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herbst
You can just forward the email to your normal inbox. (Actually just writing a service for exactly that). The benefit is you get a proper spam filter what most buyable email hostings dont have, plus only have to check a single inbox.

I also use name@surname.country for mostly everything, plus i have a super short one to tell someone my email fast. People are often impressed, many think i run a company. Its very good for my general image.

Edit:// For free professional forwarding check Mailgun which also contains the ŜMTP for sending (something i wont offer)

duiker101
I use fastmail with my domains. It costs 30$/year and I really like it. I make it pull my gmail stuff which I am slowly trying to phase out.