I’m not in the same situation, as I mostly registered my domain for the fun of tinkering with things (I’m weird like that), but a couple of thoughts:
If you’ve thought about using domain hacks like [email protected], be careful. Depending on the TLD you choose, you can be in for a shit ton of trouble with spam filters and address validation. Might be able to get away with it if your last name ends in a common tld though. Also depending on what you plan on using it for, you might not even want to go with a standard [lastname].com style domain.
I like protonmail a lot so definitely recommend them. But personally I don’t bother as I rarely need to send emails from my domain, so I ended up just going with a CloudFlare email routing thingo that catches all incoming emails and forwards them to a Gmail inbox I have set up specifically for it. Also, depending on who you register with, they might include permanent email hosting, or potentially hosting for your first year or whatever. That’s definitely the easiest option if you find a registrar you like
And whatever you do, don’t try and host your own email server. I’ve never tried to, but from what I’ve heard it’s a pain in the fucking arse, breaks regularly, and unless you bounce your emails through somebody else’s servers on the way out, you’re likely to have your emails caught in spam filters. Ultimately as long as you don’t go with a provider known for sending large amounts of spam, all of them will be very similar, with the primary difference just being how much it costs and what support you receive
I hosted my own mail server late 90s. It’s a drag but not the end of the world. You want it locked down. There’s many things that legitimately port scan but once the MX records went live port scanning went through the roof.
I’m not in the same situation, as I mostly registered my domain for the fun of tinkering with things (I’m weird like that), but a couple of thoughts:
If you’ve thought about using domain hacks like [email protected], be careful. Depending on the TLD you choose, you can be in for a shit ton of trouble with spam filters and address validation. Might be able to get away with it if your last name ends in a common tld though. Also depending on what you plan on using it for, you might not even want to go with a standard [lastname].com style domain.
I like protonmail a lot so definitely recommend them. But personally I don’t bother as I rarely need to send emails from my domain, so I ended up just going with a CloudFlare email routing thingo that catches all incoming emails and forwards them to a Gmail inbox I have set up specifically for it. Also, depending on who you register with, they might include permanent email hosting, or potentially hosting for your first year or whatever. That’s definitely the easiest option if you find a registrar you like
And whatever you do, don’t try and host your own email server. I’ve never tried to, but from what I’ve heard it’s a pain in the fucking arse, breaks regularly, and unless you bounce your emails through somebody else’s servers on the way out, you’re likely to have your emails caught in spam filters. Ultimately as long as you don’t go with a provider known for sending large amounts of spam, all of them will be very similar, with the primary difference just being how much it costs and what support you receive
I hosted my own mail server late 90s. It’s a drag but not the end of the world. You want it locked down. There’s many things that legitimately port scan but once the MX records went live port scanning went through the roof.
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Used to work at a big ISP, and before the days of Outlook 365, there were 5 engineers working flat out on running the staff email servers.
Last time I heard from them, they got retrained and now look after the entire Microsoft 365 tenancy for the whole organization.