[consumer451]

Haha, yeah. That is the likely outcome. Especially since while tech-advanced, in the country of origin, ain't nobody trust anybody.

Just curious, how did you advertise this "service?" I am wondering about that aspect myself. [0]

Making this as obviously trustworthy as possible is probably the feature for which to optimize.

[0] That's why I was imagining a portal at surname.com, so that people could Google our name, sign up, with me in the loop for account approval.

NOTE: Who knows, this is an interesting legacy to leave behind, even if not popular now.

[GOTO95]

There's only ~25 of us and we used to get together for an extended family dinner once or twice a year - and I would just casually tell others that if they want their [e-mail] email just ask me.

No one ever did.

Also I tried the portal thing - I put a simple webpage at https://lastname.com/ where it basically said to ask me for email accounts or web space... again, no one ever asked, not once. Not even my mother, she's been using the same Hotmail/Outlook/O365/whateveritsthisweek account since late 90s and doesn't want to move anywhere.

[consumer451]

Interesting. I wonder if in my case, being more forceful would work.

As in, gather their email addresses, create forwards with [e-mail], and give them biz cards, or DMs, with those addresses. Once you are able to share [e-mail] as your email, it's hard to go back.

I think that's kinda how Stripe got sign-ups back in the day, according to HN lore. Just grab their laptop, and write the 3 lines of code. :)

I just want my fam to have the power of saying "my email is first@last." Maybe Reply As is not important. Just the to: alias would do.

I could probably manually scrape FB and make the aliases,[0] send them messages asking for their current email address, create the @lastname.com fwd, and meet a bunch more family that way.

Thank you for helping me get to this point.

Cheers!

[0] Namecheap allows 100 email fwds/domain for free. That's what I will do manually.