After the Proton CEO twitter scandal, I’m thinking of getting a domain that I own. But problem is, all my email address would be @mydomainname.com instead of @protonmail which millions of people use. Isn’t that just linking all your account together. Even if you create a separate email address for every account, they all still identify to your domain and the surveillance corporations can link your accounts together to your identity. So I’m not sure about having own domain name…
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And its hard to even pick a name that sound good when you say it like Pro-ton-mail is easy to pronounce, I can’t think of some good domain name like that to choose.
Buy two domains at least. One for the actual email and one for redirection email addresses with something like addy.io .
In the UK, open personal details can be resisted from whois listings under data protection, but you can use a mailbox or office address to make that a redirect.
I use a control domain to control all my other customer domains and I separate DNS, domain hosting, email, and websites so no-one has too much control. That was a painful lesson to learn.
Picking domain names is hard. Whatever you pick it will sound silly or it’s already been taken. Just make it easy to spell and short to reduce the pain of spelling it out, and these days LLM tools can help choose.