Ask HN: Alternatives to Gmail that are new, cool, etc?

Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to Gmail that are new, cool, etc? by 0x00000000 on Saturday July 08, 2017 @06:16PM (#14727457)

I have an uncommon last name - about 3 families in the world with it as far as I can tell. Some asshole has been squatting <mylastname>.com for over 20 years and said he "hadn't considered selling it" then wanted $100,000 for it. The same guy has been squatting hundreds of domains since the 90s, many of them 1 letter off from major websites.

What can I do against this scum? I saw that there have been many successful disputes against him so I was thinking of constructing one in a similar vein saying that his use of my unique last name to serve malware and ads is damaging to my reputation but it seems a little weak.

Also no other TLD is even an option for an email address because people always assume you made a mistake and just send things to .com anyway in my experience.

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Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to Gmail that are new, cool, etc? by true_religion on Saturday July 08, 2017 @09:57PM (#14728014)

For 100 thousand you could just buy a tld and be firstname@lastname

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Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to Gmail that are new, cool, etc? by leipert on Monday July 10, 2017 @09:12PM (#14740894)

You could register a second or third level .name domain, so in your case probably 0x00000000.name or firstname.0x00000000.name ;)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.name

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Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to Gmail that are new, cool, etc? by shoo on Saturday July 08, 2017 @10:05PM (#14728031)

why not just register a domain that isn't your last name, and use that?

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