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[–] [email protected] 157 points 2 months ago

You... you shut up. πŸ₯²

[–] Imgonnatrythis 82 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 months ago (4 children)

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

[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I use wildcards for some stuff, but I mostly just use [email protected] 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 14 points 2 months ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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 78 points 2 months ago (4 children)

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 45 points 2 months ago (6 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Start selfhosting. I use my domain for tons of stuff

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (7 children)

I have an HP mini PC behind the router, noip.com, no money spent

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months 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.)

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Don't worry, the dream lives on!

VancesCouchSloppySeconds.com is still available!!!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago

Oh this one cuts.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months 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!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (4 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

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

[–] Bakkoda 11 points 2 months ago

Wait you guys made websites?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months 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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

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

https://scratch-that.org/

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Oh no...

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

;_; might need to update my htaccess

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

It's 2024 and no HTTPS?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

20 domains and counting (just got another one yesterday lmao)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (7 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

For hosting check out something like github pages. There several other free ones as well, but pages looks like the easiest to set up. If you want something more robust, you could look into Netlify or Vercel, but that's gonna require a little more know-how.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Self host isn't that bad. Say you have a raspberry pi. Install linux on the pi (basically the only thing to do with it), then google how to set up a LAMP server (Linux, Apache, Mysql, Php/python). Once you've followed all the steps they list then now you have a web server. To get it out on the internet log into your router and port forward for HTTP and now anyone can see that glorious Apache default web page.

Then for a domain just find the first domain register and buy the domain from them. Once you own a domain point it towards your IP address (just google what is my IP) and you're set.

Your web page is now on the internet and anyone can type a nice name to get to your page. Anyone can also use any exploits then find so you have to make sure you're keeping up updating your devices. And every port you forward is an intrusion point into your network should someone want to hack you.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

my domain is my media server, so id rather not end my domain.

[–] iAmTheTot 6 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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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