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[–] [email protected] 161 points 1 month ago

You... you shut up. πŸ₯²

[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Use your domain for your primary email address, have some regrets about it, but never be able to walk away..

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 month ago (4 children)

That's what I do. Anytime I need to sign up for something with an email I do:

[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I use wildcards for some stuff, but I mostly just use [email protected] and have my real email for friends and family private. It's not liked I get emails from friends and family anymore anyway. Everything is iMessage or SMS.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Same. Crazy obvious which companies are getting hacked or selling my info.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Soooo. I’m dumb. I host my overseerr on my domain that just routes to my local IP for my local desktop. How do I get email on this domain without spending dumb money on an email hosting server?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

PurelyMail is a great and cheap service. It's like $10 per year. You just set up some records (MX and TXT) on your domain provider and that's it.

You could also self-host email, but then you need a server that's always powered on and it adds much complexity, so I suggest to use a managed service instead.

The good thing about using your own domain is that you're not tied to any service. You could migrate to any other provider (such as ProtonMail, FastMail, etc.) without ever changing your email address on all services.

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 month ago (4 children)

On the flip side my husband has held on to the domain he got for 22 YEARS., and never did anything with it. We finally got our emails up and running with it last week. Don’t let your dreams be dreams!

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 month ago (6 children)

You know what's worse? Starting a successful one that makes a whole ass salary and then having google updates smack it the f out.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago

lol I’ve been squatting a couple of domains since 2001, my day will come!!!

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (14 children)

Start selfhosting. I use my domain for tons of stuff

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago

More like "Dammit, my domain auto-remewed again. Oh well, it's only $12. I'll cancel next year." (It's been 5 years.)

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Nooo, one day I'll have the time to build my writing utensil repair business.
And then I'll need the domain penisbroken.com

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Don't worry, the dream lives on!

VancesCouchSloppySeconds.com is still available!!!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'd be tempted to buy that. When you visit it's just a white page with a leather couch in the middle of the screen, everytime you click the couch it would moan seductively and every fifth click would give a squelch sound.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

Oh this one cuts.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wanted to start a blog about my weight loss journey. Lost the weight and never started the blog. Still paying for the domain 7 years later.

Only thing left to do is gain the weight back so I can try again!

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

This is why I never bought a domain. Can't give up on your dreams if you never pursued them in the first place!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Mine is on automatic renewal.

To a debit card on an account I closed months ago

Check. Mate.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

let the ghosts fight it out

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Fate will take it from here lol

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (3 children)

bought my domain in July... still havent finished my website...

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Give it a couple years… and then a few more.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

Why are you stressing this nice Lemming to fast track their site? It'll take the standard 30 years. It's fine.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Wait you guys made websites?

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

CatBagz.com is in this photograph and I don't like it.

What, no one really wants to purchase cat faced bags from a guy on the internet that doesn't like cats all that much and doesn't use bags all that much and can't social media and mostly just wants to stop being a fucking company shill but no I'm so fucking good at it that's my job and my life forever.

Fuck you, dreams. I'm taking cat bags to my fucking grave.

At least my red bubble stickers sell.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Neither. If I'm not using the domain, I can pretend I still have it.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I let one of mine expire a few years ago. Finally decided I wanted to try to register it again, but a squatter is now sitting on it asking for something like ~~$10k~~ $3.6k.

Edit: just double-checked, they lowered the price to only $3595!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

And that's why I'll never give up my domain. Those vultures will immediately snap it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This whole thread is a gem. So many amazing websites. It's inspired me to make a website and hopefully be a repo for all your websites like the old internet

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Is this the sticker of a hobby that you want to be part of?

MY FUCKING WEBSITE DOESN'T EVEN HAVE CAT BAGS FOR SALE WHAT WAS I THINKING?

Buy a God Damn Cat Bag

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

The domain was always for me to archive the things I enjoyed.

https://scratch-that.org/

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

I still have a number of domains that I registered aspirationally for projects I never really started.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Easy decision, I pay every time.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

You can pry cuteredpanda.com from my cold dead hands.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Oh no...

How about this: http://cuteredpanda.com/ ?

;_; might need to update my htaccess

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

It's 2024 and no HTTPS?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

But if I don't renew what will become of sneakymonkeybutt.net

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

my domain is my media server, so id rather not end my domain.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I'm in this picture and I don't like it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

20 domains and counting (just got another one yesterday lmao)

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