I'm thinking of buying a domain to use as an email forwarding address. Prob .uk or .scot. Thing is I've never bought a domain before and have no idea what I'm doing or who to get it from. Anyone got any advice? #deletegoogle
@domketley You'll need (1) to buy a domain name and (2) to host DNS somewhere and (3) to host your emails somewhere
Most places do all three, but you might have to pay for each one separately.
If you buy a domain, they'll put your real postal address on the public whois database, unless you get privacy protection. Privacy protection is often free (eg: dreamhost) or the only option (eg: mythic beasts) or it might be an optional extra (f'king godaddy). You should probably check!
@domketley I've had experience with:
dreamhost: buy domain, buy website hosting. Email is free with the website hosting. Large boring company doing a good job.
mythic beasts. Buy domain, buy hosting. Small company, loves IPv6, good customer service.
Both of these have crappy webmail interfaces, so forward using POP/SMTP to proper clients.
Gandi and Dnsimple also have a good reputation for domains, but don't do hosting.
There's probably companies which just do email, but not tried them.
