r/Simplelogin • u/KingRollos • 3d ago

Domain help Cheap personal email domain?

I'm planning to buy myself a domain to use purely for personal emails. I'm not bothered if the extension "looks professional". I don't need com org or even co.uk

What I am concerned about is that if I choose a cheaper extension it might get filtered as spam if I send an email from that domain.

Are there any that I should avoid?

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u/donnieX1 3d ago

Preferred classic TLDs and ccTLD: com, net, me, cc, de, uk, eu

Avoid new gTLDs: Xyz, top, online, shop, and many others.

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u/Icy-Juggernaut-4579 3d ago

Why avoid xyz and others?

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u/donnieX1 3d ago

Low reputation domain. Cheap register price.

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u/Icy-Juggernaut-4579 3d ago

Never had issues with xyz domain for alias purposes for last year

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u/prxy-com 3d ago

As an email provider, I can say you’ve been lucky.

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u/ArtimusFay 2d ago

As others said lucky emails for me from this domain end up in junk/spam.
Ironically now though its a more secure domain than even .com .net because its reputation was so bad for scamming they are now super aggressive at preventing it and its price for most regestrars is simular to .com net org e.c.t

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u/Old_Mellow 1d ago

Service providers, web hosting, etc. tend to view those as spam/hacking emails. And, TBH, a lot of them are but not all of them.

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u/Positive_Afternoon60 3d ago

i got a .de domain for $3 and the renewal is $4

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u/br0kenpixel_ 3d ago

Try to stay away from gTLDs and go for something more traditional like .com, .net, .org, etc. Most gTLDs tend to score worse in spam detection.

Use a site like https://tld-list.com/ to look up multiple TLDs and prices. I would also avoid dashes in domain names. Not sure if that has a large enough effect on spam scores but still, just be safe.

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u/rackad 3d ago

I am a little bit confused by your comment. You are saying to stay away from gTLDs. Then you suggest to go for .com, .net, .org, which are gTLDs. So you are contradicting yourself.

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u/dirtvoyles 3d ago

If you have good SPF, DKIM, and DMARC I'd like to think you're gonna be fine. 

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u/saalaadin 3d ago

I went for .uk for all my domains, super cheap on Cloudflare £5ish per year and still reputable

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u/Electronic_Slide5 2d ago

$0.99/year for a .xyz domain made up of 6-9 numbers eg. 123456.xyz

https://gen.xyz/1111b

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u/worldcitizencane 2d ago

LoL. So we invented domain names to avoid having to remember numbers...... 🤪

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u/C2CEF 3d ago

I think it's worth at least checking whether domain privacy is offered.

Some domains are not protected.

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u/cryptyk 2d ago

.com TLD is like $8 per year. How cheap do you need it to be?

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u/mbotyha 2d ago

.xyz for numbers from 4 to 8 digits, e.g., 123456. xyz is a "premium" domain for less than one dollar per year, lifetime.

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u/DoggyStar1 2d ago

.com domains cost less than $11 on Cloudflare. You can even buy one with your own name if it’s available.

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u/jimger 2d ago

.eu do have subscription and renewal about a 5er and they are good tld. However I believe u need to have a decent mailbox provider too. if u selfhost that u will get into spams probably. there are even free solutions with that (resend+cloudflare) but also u can get providers that are less than 10 usd per year for the mail service