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!
@h2g2bob
Thanks! Thinking of Fastmail for (3) but the domain is key so I don't have to get my contacts to update their address books more than once...
I'll have a look at the two non-godaddy domain providers you mentioned.
@h2g2bob
This is all somewhat more urgent since I changed my Google password to something pleasingly random but somehow mucked up saving it to my password manager. At that point I discovered my backup email was pointing at a now non-existent hotmail address. Oops. At least I still have access on my phone for now...
@domketley Oh, wow! Perhaps make a filter that matches everything and forwards it to a new email address?
@h2g2bob
I want to migrate off Google anyway. It's mostly annoying as I won't be able to delete my account. I *think* I can get them to autodelete it after a period of inactivity but not sure.
@h2g2bob
That's the plan, coupled with an autoreply with the new address.