Registering a custom domain is a smart idea. But there are lots of things to consider when you pick your domain name. Let's say your name is Your Name. If Your Name is not an uncommon name, yourname.com might not be available. You could try your-name.com with a hyphen, but I don't recommend it. I did that and found it to be a pain to have to emphasize to people how important that hyphen was. You could try yourname.me. The .me top-level domain (TLD) is increasingly popular and a good choice at least for personal domains. There are scads of other TLDs like .us and lots more to consider. But if your actual name is long and hard for most people to spell, you might want to consider shortening and/or simplifying. We had a friend years ago whose last name was sort of like Hickenlooper-Radowitz. I would not have recommended that she register "hickenlooper-radowitz.com"! -- although in her case the hyphen might have made sense, since she did hyphenate her bipartite surname. Her first name was Eileen. I might have suggested eileenhr.com or something like that. If you think you'll ever want to share the domain as a family thing -- you know [email protected] and [email protected] , well, you might not want to put your own first name into the domain in that case. The last thing I'll mention is the issue of brevity. I like my ProtonMail pm.me address because it's succinct and easy to dictate to people. For my personal domain I use my two initials @ myfirstnamemylastname.com. Works fine. If you are planning to use a domain mainly as an address for your website, then brevity isn't a big deal. Most people get to websites using browser search or links in email etc. But your email address is often given to people by voice. so clarity and brevity are useful virtues for an email address to have. More on reddit.com

Definitely get a private domain. The biggest pro is that if you switch email providers, you don’t have to update any of your accounts. When I was looking for an email host I tried Zoho, Proton, Apple, MXRoute, and at least one or two more I’m forgetting. You don’t want to switch all of your logins and contact info more than once if you can avoid it. I 100% agree with the other poster that you should aim for a .com. My .family domain regularly gets rejected as not a real email when I try to sign up places with it, and even my .us domain was blocked once. More on reddit.com

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I was able to find a domain name that was part of my name and then I use the @ symbol as an "a" in my name. For example [email protected] More on reddit.com