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0 pointsscrollaway9y ago0 comments

I am reminded of the scene with the Slurm Queen in Futurama talking about "reintroducing Slurm Classic", as a jab on Coke.

Realistically, if Google discontinued Gmail, people would move to other email providers. There's plenty of big ones.

BTW: Want to avoid being caught in that eventuality, but don't want to stop using Gmail? Buy yourself a personal domain name (for your last name or some such) on https://www.gandi.net/ and set up a redirect to your @gmail.com address. Your email is now john@smith instead of johnsmith@gmail. Congratulations, it looks a thousand times more professional, and you have it for life; if gmail dies, you can move providers without changing your email.

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SomewhatLikely9y ago

Except it doesn't look more professional because you could only get smithfamilyemails.com or something equally unmemorable.

ReverseCold9y ago

3 letter non .com domains are your friend, plenty of those left for cheap

rrix29y ago

then all those signup forms with bad regular expressions can ruin your afternoon. I maintain an obscure .com only because the various gTLDs i could use regularly fail these naive validations. Some sites dont even properly handle ccTLDs

H4CK3RM4N9y ago

I really like $LASTNAME.xyz

JD5579y ago

>and set up a redirect to your @gmail.com address.

What do you recommend for this?

I've been wanting to do this for some time, but that means I either need to:

* Use GMail for work, which does not seem tailored for personal used (it's paid, I can't easilly find the price and it seems a bit odd to use Google solution to avoid problems with Google)

* Send all mails to my personal server and setup a redirect there to GMail (which forces me to make sure that my server is always up, so I might as well use my own mail server)

Is there a better solution? I wish there was some way to define e-mail alias at the DNS level.

scrollawayOP9y ago

I use Gandi's native email redirects. If you use their DNS, you can set up to 1000 redirects from and to whichever email address you want, per domain.

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