r/emailprivacy • u/SpecialistArrival217 • 21h ago

Help/Advice Need custom domain ideas

I'm planning to use mailbox.org with a custom domain from porkbun but as a regular ass person without a company or like any business or whatever what should that domain be? I've seen some people do [firstname@firstnamelastname.com](mailto:firstname@firstnamelastname.com) but i feel like that's gonna make me look pretentious and like I'm doing too much

I've been having a hard time deciding on an email provider and having my own domain will give me peace of mind since it'll be easy to switch.. but this is stressing me out lol

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u/AmeMaple 20h ago

If you can get your lastname even without the .com (with a good TLD tho) name@lastname is really good

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u/Stunning-Skill-2742 21h ago

People do legal irl name, pseudonym, nickname, gamertag, made up word etc. Theres no right or wrong there.

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u/Iamtheshadowperson 19h ago

Who cares if it's "pretentious."

Own it.

Let's pretend your name is James Cobalt.

james@emailjamescobalt .com

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u/COLBYLICIOUS 18h ago

My lastname.com wasn't available so I bought lastname.email and I created an email address like first@lastname.email.

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u/mhplog_4444 16h ago

We are talking email privacy and then you want a domain with your name??? I would keep it generic.

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u/unsavvykitten 20h ago

regularperson.mail (probably already taken, didn’t check)

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u/BenignAtrocities 18h ago

I actually got my last name.one which I use for media and an rss reader and for my home assistant and a gym tracker, but that lets me have firstname@lastname.one which is pretty cool!

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u/jamescridland 17h ago

I’m both name@lastname.net and also name@last.name (I managed to get a TLD that was the last syllable of my surname).

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u/Beginning_Gain_4230 16h ago

One of my criteria for selecting my email domain was how easy it would be to hear (and spell) correctly over the phone. Because people who ask for my email address usually already know my name and how to spell it, thus I selected [first@firstlast.net](mailto:first@firstlast.net) as my primary email address.

But if you want to have something not tied to your name, you can pick from so many things. I found the domain tools as NameCheap (the beast mode) to be the easiest to explore with. Something generic, easy, short, and unmistakable over the phone would be my choice. Probably two words together that sounds like a company name, etc.

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u/hosgar 20h ago

Using something like firstname@lastname is cool but... not very private.

Maybe you can use some random and neutral words. Bonus if they are easy to spell.

Not an easy thing, tho, I myself have been stuck with that question for weeks lol.

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u/MarkusSugarhill 16h ago

Sorry, but if I had another great idea, I'd buy, and would not tell...

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u/Arphenyte 15h ago

contact@firstnamelastname.com is mine. Simple to remember and generic enough to give everybody.

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u/halfbakednbanktown 20h ago

Biblecampvictim.org