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Post by karmajunkie » Fri, Oct 06, 2023, 3:24 PM UTC

p4bl0 wrote: post #30

I also have a domain just for the cool look of my personal email address. My (family) name has an 'a' in it that I replace with the '@' of the email address, so Rauzy becomes r@uzy. I have the domain "uzy dot me" just for that. A friend of mine saw this at some point, and decided to use the same trick, except his family name ends with the TLD of a country so he could also use that to (not gonna tell his email address…

somewhat along those lines, i acquired gaddis.es because it makes the plural of my family name, which i thought would be a fun way to give out email addresses to the rest of my family… so far nobody else thinks it’s as funny as i do :)

Re: Dot Dotat.at

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Post by xerox13ster » Sat, Oct 07, 2023, 4:11 AM UTC

superjared wrote: post #13

Reminds me of Slashdot > The name "Slashdot" came from a somewhat "obnoxious parody of a URL" – when Malda registered the domain, he desired to make a name that was "silly and unpronounceable" – try pronouncing out, 'h-t-t-p-colon-slash-slash-slashdot-dot-org'". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot

h-t-t-p-s colon whack whack slash dot dot com

Re: Dot Dotat.at

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Post by MailNerd » Mon, Oct 09, 2023, 8:20 PM UTC

em-bee wrote: post #26

MailNerd wrote: post #21

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for that price i can register my own domain

To each their own.

Many people don't bother setting this up themselves. Others want to have a shared email domain similar to Gmail.com with their first name before the @, instead of their full name in the domain name.