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 Fastmail looks like a good choice. You should be able to get a domain from anyone and set the MX record to, um, whatever fastmail tells you to?
Afaict, everyone who sells you a domain also does free dns hosting? Looks like gandi does: https://docs.gandi.net/en/domain_names/common_operations/dns_records.html
I'm pretty sure mythic beasts and dreamhost do too
@domketley No probs 👍
@h2g2bob
Thanks. You've been a great help :-)