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LOL. The sure way to insure that someone googles something is to tell them not to. I'm a perfect example.
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F-ES Sitecore wrote: Please don't google what it means though
Please don't DuckDuckGo what it means though
Does not quite resonate...
But I never wave bye bye
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Zmau Z wrote: What are the things that one might want to consider when requesting your own domain ?
Whatever the domain you want is, it's already gone. Once you find a domain your biggest risk is that someone else will buy the same domain with a different suffix and impersonate you, so if yours is zmau.com (don't bother checking, it's already gone) then someone might buy zmau.net or zmau.org etc, so when buying the domain you might want to consider buying as many suffix options as you think reasonable.
Beyond that it's pretty cheap and straight-forward, $10 to $20 a year on average. You can't buy it outright, you need to renew it every year, or every three if available.
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Loooks like http://zmauz.com/[^] is available though. So go buy it right now!
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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Thanks for the heads up, just bought it.
BTW it's for sale if anyone wants to make me an offer.... 
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F-ES Sitecore wrote: Whatever the domain you want is, it's already gone. Once you find a domain your biggest risk is that someone else will buy the same domain with a different suffix and impersonate you
I agree. Just stay off the internet. 
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Having your own domain involves:
- Paying annually for the domain name (I pay for two or three years at a time because it's cheaper).
- Paying to host your web-site (if you care to have one, I use DiscountASP.NET because I can avoid paying for a database option I don't use.).
- Paying to host a mail-host (usually included with the web-site hosting.
- Administering the email system.
Within the email set-up you can add lots of email addresses such as wife@mydomain.com, daughter@mydomain.com, son@mydomain.com, masterofthedomain@mydomain.com and finally a handy catchall@mydomain.com which you can forward junk to to be auto-deleted. Lot's of options!
If I signup for something that might end up sending me lots of junk mail I normally create a mailbox for that thing, such as SomeCompany@mydomain.com, which I then check use for any communication with "Some Company". From this i can usually tell if they have sold my name to other mailing lists because spam mail is addressed to "SomeCompany@mydomain.com" - you set these to auto-delete regularly.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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_Forogar_ wrote: a handy catchall@mydomain.com which you can forward junk to to be auto-deleted
When I have to "sign up" with sites in order to do anything useful, I generally use a unique "non-existent" email name at my domain that identifies the company I'm dealing with. E.g. I might use "codeproject@mydomain.com", "amazon@mydomain.com", "taxman@mydomain.com" etc. As "undefined" email addresses they all get redirected to my catch-all box, but they retain the original email. That means I can use my email application's rules to sort or delete as I wish (e.g. sorting into different folders to separate work / leisure / admin sources; then regardless of the actual sending address I can categorise automatically). But also, if I start getting spam on one of those addresses I know exactly who is "to blame" for leaking / selling my address.
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I think I mentioned that that was what I did.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I got a domain name and a one-page self-administered web site for $3.00 per year, on the 3 year plan. It comes with a bunch of mail boxes. I'll think about my next move in 3 years.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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HostPapa
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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So that's what a 5 dimensional cat looks like!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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having had www.bergren.net now for many many years. It is fun. I have a mail box for me, and my family each member can have as little or as many as they want. for example robert and bob @ both go to the same box.
It is also a great place for my blog site. Even though I might publish the blog elsewhere I have it roll up to here. And I can teach a class out of here and did so for a number of years because I can have subsites with whatever the heck I want.
Also, a great place to practice web design( I suck as you can see) and web programming etc...
It does cost depending upon what you want for bells and whistles. I renew my domain for about $10 per year and buy those in 10 year increments. I know because I just renewed it about 2 weeks ago.
Hosting costs me another like $80 a year and includes all the emails I want.
I enjoy it. But ymmv. and you get what you put into it.
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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If you just want email use gmail.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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I think that is the point - he does not want to use a generic domain.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Gmail will host your domain for email.
Nothing succeeds like a budgie without teeth.
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: he does not want to use a generic domain.
Possibly.
The general idea is to have my own mail address, so I can replace my provider It never matters who your provider is, you can always have gmail.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Zmau Z wrote: The general idea is to have my own mail address, so I can replace my provider. While we are at it, maybe I will have email addresses for the whole family...
I have a cheap one; but does provide free email aliasses; so gets sent to their emails. Still, I'd prefer them to use ProtonMail.
Zmau Z wrote: How much money does it cost ?
A few euro's a year; not noticable.
Zmau Z wrote: Can I have my domain for good ? Or do I have to pay for it on a yearly basis ?
My costs are yearly, but as I said, cheap (depending on your top level domain).
Haven't currently hooked up the domain to my Linus' server; Mono/ASP doesn't work yet with Apache, the keyboard is whining, and want a decent silly homepage that at least shows the hamsterdance. But remote desktop, with your own domain; impressive to most noobs.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I used to have a domain name, I dropped it because I don't "create content" enough to make it worthwhile.
I'd rather be phishing!
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I was doing some Microsoft dev work for side project and they wanted to have an email address that is not personal but an organisation one. I bought a domain for cheap ( $18 / year ) on google domain and setup an email redirect. Google lets you create an alias of a sort that says your email id is user@yourdomain.com that then gets redirected to your personal one. It was a good option for me as I needed something cheap and can go around Microsoft's restriction on having organisation domain.
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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Another thing to consider is check whether the provider will serve your webpages over https.
Some providers will charge extra, so I just route my traffic through Cloudflare ssl for free to ensure that all pages are served over https.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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There are plenty of the newer gTLDs (generic Top Level Domain names Generic top-level domain - Wikipedia[^] ) available as the final suffix to your personal domain part (.xxx anyone).
However, be aware that many organisations are not yet fully supporting them, so you can get into a trap where you cannot use your preferred email address with that organisation.
e.g. my ISP will use my personal email domain to send marketing emails, but refuses to send billing and support emails to the same email address, so ultimately I have a series of fall back email addresses (I'm in the fortunate position to have a free alumni address, as well as the ISP's own provided email)
So if you go with a newer gTLD domain, it will mostly work, but at some point, someone won't be able to cope with something so new as your preferred email address.
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What you may want to consider is a domain that included email forwards.
If you have that then you can create emails for family, friends, etc. and forward it to their current email box. The old email address continue to work but the new ones are all in that set you'd like to make. If someone changes their mailbox then you change where it forwards to and all goes on transparently to everyone else. I use this procedure for a fraternal organization's website I manage which has changed officers each year. Each subgroups secretary has an address of the same form and if a new secretary is elected they are the new target of the forward. Similarly, when my kids were in college I used this, and later, in grad school, I changed the target but they all kept the simple 'family' address as well.
I used to use GoDaddy.com but they'll get you in cheap and then more than make up for it with their cost of renewals. I moved everything to NameCheap. NameCheap will even let you use their email forwarding if someone else is your ISP but that takes a bit of technical skill. Since their domain registration is amongst the cheapest, it's a good place to start.
Just a sample (look at other providers !!!) is namecheap's rates for registering a new domain:
Namecheap[^] which is good through the end of September. They always have sales, both for registration and sometimes for renewals. Websites, all sorts of stuff. For me, they were attractive for the very low cost no-frills options and fair renewal costs. It depends upon what you need (I also needed a website, called "hosting").
If you do this, you may want to look into the availability of a "catchall" forward, as well - a place you can send things that are going to your domain but to unassigned forwards - this means you can make up email addresses on the spot and they'll work - like one for each different place you do business with so you know who sent the email and who sold your name to spammers.
Beware of places that start you up cheap and then kill you for renewals. GoDaddy is famous for this. They never give you a break for their costly renewals.
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