Announcing .self: A New Top-Level Domain Designed to Support Self-Hosting

Re:Announcing .self: A New Top-Level Domain Designed to Supp... by zrobotics on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @12:22AM (#48728463)

Wait, so self hosting but I don't host my own email? So you guys just want to run your own mailserver and give people custom emails?

That sounds like negative utility. That would make hosting an email server on one of your domains harder than hosting it on a .com, so what benefit is this providing?

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Re:Announcing .self: A New Top-Level Domain Designed to Supp... by Arrowmaster on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @03:24PM (#48737973)

This entire scheme is devoid of a working knowledge of how anything works. I'm wondering what the rug pull is going to be. Crypto or VC?

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Re:Announcing .self: A New Top-Level Domain Designed to Supp... by HumanCCF on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @03:39AM (#48743451)

One of the biggest problems people have when self-hosting their own mail servers is delivery issues because the big email providers don't trust your server. The goal with the shared mail server is to create a server that is trusted by those providers and then making it accessible to users of the .self TLD so they can forward their mail to it and have confidence it will be delivered. It would act only as a relay, users would still self-host their own mailboxes. And nothing would force you to use it.

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