[retrobox]

I feel like I hear more and more of these horror stories. I’ve been looking to migrate my custom domain away from Google for a while and was also looking at Fastmail. I use an @gmail.com for everyday things because it’s widely recognised and easy to communicate to people over the phone or even face to face in a shop for a digital receipt.

[yokoprime]

About the domain, I recommend you get your own domain if you ever migrate off Gmail. That way you hopefully won't have to do it again anytime soon, even if you move to another provider

[jbc1]

If you keep verbal communication in mind when picking a domain it’s fine. Get a five character one and it’s five syllables instead of gmails two.

Doing the thing where you try to sign up to services using [e-mail] confuses people though. I stopped doing that after having to explain to people I receive emails to any address sent to my domain a few times.

I could see using uncommon top level domains being a problem as well.

[retrobox]

I’m open to ideas! My poor imagination often seems to stumble across domains already taken :)

[jbc1]

I went first initial, middle initial, first three letters of last name. If that doesn’t work for you I’d just try different combinations of your names letters until you get something available.

[swozey]

Mine is [e-mail] and it makes people stumble, especially the .dev, also it's kind of rare nowadays but some sites don't think thats a TLD.

[swozey]

Thanks for the reminder that one of my most critical domain names is still on google domains. I've started using porkbun for newer domains I get but I still have the main one on google. I need to get that off before they lock me out of the console or something ridiculous.