Ask HN: For personal email, should you use a custom domain?

Re:Ask HN: For personal email, should you use a custom domain? by DoctorOW on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @08:58AM (#28301048)

I've used both. It depends on how personal your personal email is. A custom domain is only worth the expense and trouble if your email address is in any way part of your first impression.

If you are just giving this address to the services you sign up for, friends and family then GMail/Outlook's reliability actually make them preferable to setting up an email server on your domain.

Fastmail et al sell their paid service on a promise that you see no ads, and the contents of your emails will not be scanned by the same automated services that Gmail/Outlook use. This doesn't translate into better sending/receiving of email and depending on who you are, you can decide how much that extra privacy is worth in terms of dollars.

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Re:Ask HN: For personal email, should you use a custom domain? by lodonnell9213 on Monday August 30, 2021 @06:49AM (#28354390)

The privacy aspect isn’t a major concern to me, not because I don’t care, but certain services link into gmail better. I also find that Google’s UX is better for me than others, and from years of using gmail I am used to the options, but was unsure if it was worth “upgrading” to a private domain.

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