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[-] ThePJN@sopuli.xyz 160 points 1 month ago

You... you shut up. 🥲

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 82 points 1 month ago

Use your domain for your primary email address, have some regrets about it, but never be able to walk away..

[-] xintrik@lemm.ee 44 points 1 month ago

That's what I do. Anytime I need to sign up for something with an email I do:

companyname@mydomain.com

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 1 month ago

I use wildcards for some stuff, but I mostly just use public@domain.com and have my real email for friends and family private. It's not liked I get emails from friends and family anymore anyway. Everything is iMessage or SMS.

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[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 month ago

Same. Crazy obvious which companies are getting hacked or selling my info.

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[-] flames5123@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Soooo. I’m dumb. I host my overseerr on my domain that just routes to my local IP for my local desktop. How do I get email on this domain without spending dumb money on an email hosting server?

[-] Scrollone@feddit.it 10 points 1 month ago

PurelyMail is a great and cheap service. It's like $10 per year. You just set up some records (MX and TXT) on your domain provider and that's it.

You could also self-host email, but then you need a server that's always powered on and it adds much complexity, so I suggest to use a managed service instead.

The good thing about using your own domain is that you're not tied to any service. You could migrate to any other provider (such as ProtonMail, FastMail, etc.) without ever changing your email address on all services.

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[-] ghost_towels@sh.itjust.works 78 points 1 month ago

On the flip side my husband has held on to the domain he got for 22 YEARS., and never did anything with it. We finally got our emails up and running with it last week. Don’t let your dreams be dreams!

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[-] Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works 44 points 1 month ago

You know what's worse? Starting a successful one that makes a whole ass salary and then having google updates smack it the f out.

[-] donescobar@lemmy.world 39 points 1 month ago

lol I’ve been squatting a couple of domains since 2001, my day will come!!!

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 32 points 1 month ago

Start selfhosting. I use my domain for tons of stuff

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[-] collapse_already@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 month ago

More like "Dammit, my domain auto-remewed again. Oh well, it's only $12. I'll cancel next year." (It's been 5 years.)

[-] superkret@feddit.org 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Nooo, one day I'll have the time to build my writing utensil repair business.
And then I'll need the domain penisbroken.com

[-] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago

Don't worry, the dream lives on!

VancesCouchSloppySeconds.com is still available!!!

[-] Event_Horizon@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'd be tempted to buy that. When you visit it's just a white page with a leather couch in the middle of the screen, everytime you click the couch it would moan seductively and every fifth click would give a squelch sound.

[-] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 month ago

Oh this one cuts.

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 19 points 1 month ago
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[-] Ste41th@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago
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[-] RacerX@lemm.ee 18 points 1 month ago

Wanted to start a blog about my weight loss journey. Lost the weight and never started the blog. Still paying for the domain 7 years later.

Only thing left to do is gain the weight back so I can try again!

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[-] The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 16 points 1 month ago

Mine is on automatic renewal.

To a debit card on an account I closed months ago

Check. Mate.

[-] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 13 points 1 month ago

let the ghosts fight it out

[-] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 9 points 1 month ago

Fate will take it from here lol

[-] DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

This is why I never bought a domain. Can't give up on your dreams if you never pursued them in the first place!

[-] rem26_art@fedia.io 15 points 1 month ago

bought my domain in July... still havent finished my website...

[-] bran_buckler@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago

Give it a couple years… and then a few more.

[-] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 20 points 1 month ago

Why are you stressing this nice Lemming to fast track their site? It'll take the standard 30 years. It's fine.

[-] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago

Wait you guys made websites?

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[-] VonKeebler@ttrpg.network 14 points 1 month ago

CatBagz.com is in this photograph and I don't like it.

What, no one really wants to purchase cat faced bags from a guy on the internet that doesn't like cats all that much and doesn't use bags all that much and can't social media and mostly just wants to stop being a fucking company shill but no I'm so fucking good at it that's my job and my life forever.

Fuck you, dreams. I'm taking cat bags to my fucking grave.

At least my red bubble stickers sell.

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[-] dudinax@programming.dev 14 points 1 month ago

Neither. If I'm not using the domain, I can pretend I still have it.

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[-] doughless@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I let one of mine expire a few years ago. Finally decided I wanted to try to register it again, but a squatter is now sitting on it asking for something like ~~$10k~~ $3.6k.

Edit: just double-checked, they lowered the price to only $3595!

[-] Opisek@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

And that's why I'll never give up my domain. Those vultures will immediately snap it.

[-] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

This whole thread is a gem. So many amazing websites. It's inspired me to make a website and hopefully be a repo for all your websites like the old internet

[-] VonKeebler@ttrpg.network 8 points 1 month ago

Is this the sticker of a hobby that you want to be part of?

MY FUCKING WEBSITE DOESN'T EVEN HAVE CAT BAGS FOR SALE WHAT WAS I THINKING?

Buy a God Damn Cat Bag

[-] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

The domain was always for me to archive the things I enjoyed.

https://scratch-that.org/

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 1 month ago

I still have a number of domains that I registered aspirationally for projects I never really started.

[-] theComposer@beehaw.org 10 points 1 month ago

Easy decision, I pay every time.

[-] Winged_Hussar@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You can pry cuteredpanda.com from my cold dead hands.

[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago
[-] Winged_Hussar@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Oh no...

How about this: http://cuteredpanda.com/ ?

;_; might need to update my htaccess

[-] funkajunk@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago

It's 2024 and no HTTPS?

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[-] friendly_ghost@beehaw.org 9 points 1 month ago

But if I don't renew what will become of sneakymonkeybutt.net

[-] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago

I'm in this picture and I don't like it.

[-] TriflingToad@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

ok genuine question from someone who wants to make a website but has no experience in it other than a HTML class and doesn't want to resort to a cushy GUI based website maker, How do I make a website? I'm not talking about the HTML, I got that part down. I'm talking about how do I actually get a domain and host? I tried doing it and got like a $5 domain, but the host was like $30 for a year which was too much for me and couldn't figure out how to selfhost with my extremely limited knowledge. Is that just what it costs to have a website or is there an easier way?

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[-] finickydesert@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I was tempted to get a domain tie it to a docker image on azure then host a private (just me) Lemmy /(m)/kbin with a few other fediverse (like friendica) on it but I'm just too broke at the moment

[-] Opisek@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I don't recommend hosting a Lemmy just for yourself. How federation currently works is it mirrors EVERYTHING. Your disk will be filled up with images you never even view and you put yourself at risk of having illegal imagery on your machine if you don't actively keep up with which instances you must ban.

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