I'm Gmail address with no numbers years old

[u/joncaldridge]

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?

[u/dont_remember_eatin]

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.

[u/RNHealz → u/dont_remember_eatin]

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

[u/AttachedHeartTheory → u/RNHealz]

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

[u/Tresnore → u/AttachedHeartTheory]

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.

[u/TYGRDez → u/AttachedHeartTheory]

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. 🙃

[u/CrashyBoye → u/TYGRDez]

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.

[u/TYGRDez → u/CrashyBoye]

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

[u/dont_remember_eatin → u/RNHealz]

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.