Okay, you convinced me that this is a good idea.
I can get a domain pretty easily but I hate the idea of managing my own email. Do you recommend a particular provider? Zoho or something?
I can get a domain pretty easily but I hate the idea of managing my own email. Do you recommend a particular provider? Zoho or something?
If you prefer email forwarding, then: Cloudflare announced a free email-forwarding service just yesterday [0]. Not sure if they provide unlimited email forwarding rules. Other domain registrars like domains.google and namecheap.com also support email forwarding at no-cost.
If you prefer a managed mailbox, then: Zoho Mail, Fresh Mail, AWS WorkMail et al are nice if you'd also like to send emails using the address you sign up with.
Other than that, if you're technically inclined, then have SES plonk incoming emails in to S3 [1]
Be careful registering domain.tld without whois shield and/or with TLDs that require registrant to publicly reveal ownership (like .in)
See also: simplelogin.io and anonaddy.com
If you can afford $6/mo, Google Workspace isn't bad, there's generally better security and it grants you a lot of control over your account's settings (and will remove ads from the Gmail app on your phone, even when only looking at your @gmail account inbox).
Otherwize, Zoho works, but now costs $12/user/year (it used to be free) so ymmv. Great if you were planning on pure POP/IMAP usage anyways.
https://www.queryclick.com/app/uploads/2015/10/Gmail-ads-101...
If I saw an ad in my email client, my immediate action would be to find a new email client.