GRgradschool·Mar 8, 2025
> For those who aren't using a @gmail.com, what are you using?
I use gandi.net. It gives me all the aliases I want for free. Other
services I've investigated are better in some ways but are stingy
about aliases. I understand about differential pricing and how it
might make business sense to charge a premium for perqs that cost
nothing to provide, but even if I were to self-identify as a rich
person, the top tier on proton mail, for example, has a limit of
something like ninety aliases. Barely a week goes by that I don't need
a new alias for some business or institution expecting a permanent
irrevocable claim on my attention, and when I printed a bunch of
business cards, I put a different alias on every card in case a
prospect's contact list were to get leaked to spammers.
> coming up with a domain name is hard!
I use [1] for pronounceable
Read the rest
made-up names. It hasn't been updated in a
while but is still working fine for me. With patience you can get
words that sound like undiscovered chemical compounds, aristocratic
dynasties, exotic circuit fabrication technologies, science fiction
planet names, ancient goddesses, dystopian megacorps, etc..
[1] https://github.com/nwtgck/go-fakelish