What do you use as your personal domain for email?
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As suggested, I would also encourage you to use separate emails for each of you, no matter how close you are— and that's coming from an almost 30 years (and counting) lasting couple.
To be clear, we both have full access to the other accounts (email, health, everything, including financials) so keeping our own little 'secret' is not what's at stake for us (not mentioning that we simply respect the other's privacy). We just want to remove useless noise from our inboxes, and to be honest I really don't care much about reading her emails like she doesn't care about reading mine much either
So, we own both our own domain name (name/surname). I also own other ones, including the one I'm using to log in here and to blog. I also heavily rely on email aliases/relays to subscribe to whatever I want to, so I know can always easily delete a spam-contaminated alias the moment I notice it starts sending me too much spam, without compromising my main email.
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Choose a standard domain to get best delivery. Either org. com, or net. I went for short and speakble and spellable, Then sort but not quessable names to prevent spam. For my main names I chose ones that someone that knows my name would recognice but not the other way around.
If I wanted more privacy I would choose one or more random other domains for that using fairly random names. Or bette4 yet I would choose a common mail proviider and use one of their popular domains.
Also consider how your going to host. Deciding on domain is only part of the problem.
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I use two domains.
One is my name for people that actually know me.
The other is something random (it has meaning to me bit nobody else would think that). I use that for all my "private" emails, creating aliases that forward to me.
The most important thing is to pick something easy to understand so its easy to convey.
My domain is actually quite long, which normally is a bad thing but its distinct words so people understand it when I give it to them verbally. -
I'm very much a privacy amateur but am interested in comments on my set up, I'm sure it's not ideal.
I use [email protected] for personal email. Anything @lastname.tld forwards to my main email so for the rare occasion I need to access Facebook my account is [email protected] and so on for any other untrustworthy sites.
I can easily block emails from a leak or just if unsubscribing is made difficult.
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I have multiple emails. My email for everything which is pretty generic Gmail (I'm slowly moving away from that to a less generic domain) and [email protected] which is only for business, so I use it for LinkedIn, resume, professional stuff only. Use a place like Tuta and get their app that way you get a notification when you're business address gets emails.
I have Gmail, Tuta, Proton, and Yahoo apps on my phone. All with different email addresses so notification give me an idea of what it is (like Yahoo is probably spam. Gmail is general life stuff.) -
This is exactly what I do too. I started half a year ago and have no regrets yet.
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Assuming you aren't spending $$$ on a premium domain, I feel like $1/month on a domain is a pretty small price to pay for the freedom to move email providers as needed.
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Personally, my wife and I each have a version of
[email protected], as well as a shared[email protected]where all of our bills and shared expenses go to.For some modicum of privacy, we also have a forwarding domain connected to SimpleLogin that allows us to do
[email protected]for each website where we have little trust in the owner respecting our privacy. -
I used to use name/[email protected] but i got bored to have to spell it every time i needed to give it, so i took a 2nd domain name : [email protected], i host it with Yunohost on a dedicated server.
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Last time I looked there was nothing under 5 USD
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That's probably $5/yr, most domains are renewed annually, and the more mundane TLDs, like
.comare $12-15/yr (hence $1/mo)
