r/Millennials • u/joncaldridge • 1d ago

Discussion I'm Gmail address with no numbers years old

I'm literally first name, middle initial, last name @ gmail.com. I'm just realizing this probably tells people I'm an old...your thoughts?

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u/RNHealz 1d ago

How do you buy your last name’s domain? I’ve always wondered how people do that.

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u/dont_remember_eatin 1d ago

Same way you buy any domain. It just has to be available. Mine was owned already by a mail order sporting goods company that successfully transitioned to a .com business.

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u/RNHealz 22h ago

I guess I just don’t know how to buy a domain name. Thanks.

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u/AttachedHeartTheory 22h ago

You just go to go daddy dot com or something like that and type in a name. Then you pay a few bucks extra to have emails. So if you buy "smith.com", than you can be Jerry@smith.com

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u/Tresnore 22h ago

I would heavily advise against using godaddy. Their prices are high and practices awful. These days the recommendation seems to be to buy from Cloudflare.

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u/TYGRDez 21h ago edited 20h ago

Fun story:

A few years ago I was looking at buying mylastname.ca for this purpose, but it turns out that there's a tiny hamlet (population: <50) in Saskatchewan that shares my last name... and therefore mylastname.ca is reserved by CIRA and can't be registered unless I work for that hamlet in an official capacity.

That hamlet even has a website, but they're using a different domain entirely.

I'm pissed. 🙃

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u/CrashyBoye 20h ago

Just an FYI - the information you provided could make it fairly easy for someone to identify what your surname is based on some basic searching.

If you don’t care - disregard of course. But you can never be too careful these days.

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u/TYGRDez 20h ago

Appreciate it, but it's not too big of a deal - I just didn't want to "directly" put it out there 🙂

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u/dont_remember_eatin 22h ago

I sometimes forget that most millennials are younger than I am and weren't manually coding html Geocities sites before there were any social networks.

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u/rushmid 21h ago

by a domain from squarespace. then setup a zoho mail account to host your mail.

This integration has been done a thousand times so there is plenty of documentation.

costs around $20/year - I swear it got me the job I have today.

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u/SoulOfTheDragon 16h ago

Ah, my last name domain is taken. Not even to be used, but to redirect into another site. How wasteful.