| ▲ | kelnos 19 hours ago | |
That's why you don't sell it as if you were marketing it to techies: I've had my own domain for a good 20 years now, and while I've encountered some confusion when giving it out, it's never been as bad as you describe, and people get it without my having to go into a technical explanation. And regardless, the reason there is this problem is because easy, seamless personal-domain options don't really exist. If they did, this problem would go away. I don't really consider this to be an obstacle. | ||
| ▲ | jrnichols 18 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
I am the same, self-hosting for many years and while I have the occasional question about it, it's easily corrected. I now have a short .com domain I use because my .fyi one was even more confusing to people, and simply didn't work with some systems I needed to use. A bigger problem in my opinion is just how heavily people have associated "Google" with "the internet" and "Gmail" with all email in existence. They don't even think about outlook.com or even hotmail anymore. All email is Gmail to many people. | ||
| ▲ | palata 18 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
> I've had my own domain for a good 20 years now, and while I've encountered some confusion when giving it out, it's never been as bad as you describe Similar here, though I haven't encountered any confusion at all. I got remarks like "How do you get your name as the email? That's fancy!" | ||
| ▲ | kube-system 18 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Well, gmail does that already. It's $7/mo. | ||