[p4bl0]

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 here but, e.g., Grahams would be [e-mail]).

[JoshTriplett]

For the same reason, I keep trying to get "jo.sh". At one point it was at a domain parker (divido) that offered to auction it, but they never actually did the auction. Now it seems to be registered but not pointing anywhere. I'd love to find who has it and make them an offer for it.

[p4bl0]

Haha, I totally understand that. I kind of have a geeky love for cool domain names like this. I abandoned most of them with the time passing mostly because of unjustified price increase… but I still have a few of them. For examples :

- https://hecatom.be/ using the Belgian TLD to make the word "hécatombe" which is the title of the song of which the lyrics are on the web page.

- https://hachis.ch/ using the Swiss TLD to display an ascii art of a cannabis leaf.

- https://marselh.es/ using the Spanish TLD to make up the word "marsélhes" which means "marseillais" (i.e., inhabitants of the city of Marseille is the south of France, where I am from) in provençal (the local dialect of occitan, the historical language of this part of Europe), the website displays random pictures of the calanques (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calanque).

- https://libertai.re/ using La Réunion's TLD to make up the word "libertaire" meaning libertarian (in the sense of anarchism not of libertarianism) and it is simply a landing page that displays the logo of and links to a french political organization called UCL.

- https://alexandr.in/ using India's TLD to make up the word "alexandrin" which means alexandrine in French, a type a verse, where I still host old poems I wrote years ago.

And, not really in the same vein of using a TLD to make up a word, but still the the category of cool domain names, in addition to the one for my personal email address I mentioned in my first comment in this thread, I also have:

- https://pablockchain.fr/ mixing my firstname "Pablo" and the work "blockchain" — and also sounding like "not blockchain" (pas blockchain) in French — to centralize all my blockchain-related work, mostly in French.

- https://pablo.plus/ to have a single and simple link to see more (hence the "plus") about me (it's actually a kind of self-hosted linktree). I use it for the sole link authorized on my twitter profile for example.

I think I'm gonna stop here haha, I should get back to work!

[karmajunkie]

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 :)

[laserstrahl]

How do you set up an email account with that? I wanna do that too with my name

[p4bl0]

Most registrar (i.e., company that sell domain names) offer at least one email account with the domain name, it's the case for example with OVH or Infomaniak. Otherwise you could use a mail account from Proton or FastMail for example, they let you use your own domain name :).

[themoonisachees]

Protonmail or apple mail allow you to use your own domain.

Or you could host your mailserver but that's never a good time.