These days I use pretty much everywhere my personal or project domains (e.g. And eventually I’ll do something about this. Yeah, obviously forwarding solves this to some degree, but I don’t really want to be gracing Google with my data at all. It’s very painful/impossible to change my email. To this day I’m using Gmail to some extent just because for some services Historically I’ve used the default domains of several email vendors I regretted this every time.Here’s how I make use of custom domains in general: I guess this doesn’t need any further explanation.Īll those points were important to me to some extent. You’re running a business and you need to present yourself in a professional light.You get a fancy email login page like.It just looks cool to have an email address like Or Better inbox management - if you’re involved in many projects/activities you might want to be using different emails for all them and then have some routing/sorting based on this. You just import your messages in the new vendor, update your DNS Vendors become trivial, as your email address (e.g.

That sucks! But if you weren’t usingĪ vendor specific email domain (like ) then such moves between email You’ll also be in quite aįew contact books with your legacy address.

Services and you’ll also learn that on some services you can’t really change Something else normally you’d spent a lot of time updating your email in various Most importantly a custom domain keeps you independent from any particularĮmail vendor (e.g.So, why do you need a custom domain for email in general? There a few reasons:

A reader ask me recently how do I use custom domains for my email needsĪnd I promised to write a short blog post about this.

Protonmail use own domain