I still have a number of domains that I registered aspirationally for projects I never really started.
But if I don’t renew what will become of sneakymonkeybutt.net
I’m in this picture and I don’t like it.
Easy decision, I pay every time.
lol I’ve been squatting a couple of domains since 2001, my day will come!!!
20 domains and counting (just got another one yesterday lmao)
$12? I pay $20 for mine.
$20? I pay $30 for mine.
Wait you guys pay?
You guys have to pay? I get paid to register my domains.
You… you shut up. 🥲
bought my domain in July… still havent finished my website…
What’s stopping you from succeeding?
Funny enough I started getting more commission work through Twitter and have been focusing on that recently. The website I’m making was gonna be to serve as an art portfolio and advertise my commission services lmao
Give it a couple years… and then a few more.
Why are you stressing this nice Lemming to fast track their site? It’ll take the standard 30 years. It’s fine.
Wait you guys made websites?
Use your domain for your primary email address, have some regrets about it, but never be able to walk away…
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?
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.
This is a good idea. I got free domain routing to Gmail through the plagued Google apps system years ago. It’s changed a bunch of times and is now workspaces and requires a monthly fee. I’m grandfathered in through original apps enrollment.
Linux + postfix (SMTP) + dovecot (IMAP and POP3) + SPF + DKIM on the host
Point the MX record for your domain to your IP address
Contact your ISP and ask them to set the PTR record for your IP to your hostname
Mail can be handled by a very low end computer, a raspberry pi can handle email for a small number of users
If you have a specific mail machine you would forward the ports you use to that host on your router.
That’s what I do. Anytime I need to sign up for something with an email I do:
I do the same thing, but with gmail tags.
Now if I get a spam email to that address I’ll know exactly what to block.
I am amazed at how often that gets considered an invalid email.
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.
It’s not liked I get emails from friends and family anymore anyway.
I’ll send you an email. $12
Same. Crazy obvious which companies are getting hacked or selling my info.
You can pry cuteredpanda.com from my cold dead hands.
Y u no website! Lol
It’s 2024 and no HTTPS?
Nope from me, I only get a blank page.
Seems to be working but not responsive 🥲
Works now! You should setup SSL which is super easy with Let’s Encrypt.
What benefit does SSL/HTTPS provide if the data going back and forth is just HTML? (No user names / passwords / etc.?)
I have it set up for my jellyfin server since there is login data.
Not that I won’t add it, just didn’t know there was a need
From a regular user standpoint pretty much all modern browsers throw up warnings and block the page from initially loading if it’s not https, which discourages people from viewing it.
When I click that, I only see the right side from the eye outward, of what I assume is a cute red panda. On mobile
Ah, yeah - someday I’ll make it scale better
Mine is on automatic renewal.
To a debit card on an account I closed months ago
Check. Mate.
Fate will take it from here lol
let the ghosts fight it out
my domain is my media server, so id rather not end my domain.
i did recently go through and turn off auto renewal on a few. I still have several projects i never launched though that I’m holding out hope for… someday
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!
And that’s why I’ll never give up my domain. Those vultures will immediately snap it.
