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Comment by jrm4 | Hacker News Reader

The best thing I did very long ago was to have my own domain, partly for the purpose of having "infinity email addresses." I find it very interesting how this didn't catch on. I wonder if perhaps the Fediverse, etc., might re-spark an interest in something along these lines for more people.

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If you don't mind, what email solution do you use? Self-hosted? Some cloud solution?

Not the OP, but a .com domain costs me about $12/yr and fastmail.com costs me about $50/yr and I get unlimited email addresses as a result (catch-all).

Not the commenter, but cloudflare email routing works well w/ a $1/year xyz domain (random 6 -9 digit domains are discounted). It's worth noting that this might not be as private as iCloud or mozilla's solutions, as you share a domain with all other costumers. On the other hand, people have held onto domains for very long amounts of time, and the system is less susceptible to "it wasn't making enough money so you can't access some of your accounts now".

Last I checked, Cloudflare's email service didn't let you _send_ email, which may or may not matter to you.

How much a year or what’s your bill like for setup and maintenance?

Just so you know, your account is shadowbanned - all of your comments are automatically marked as dead.

I have vouched for this comment, because it seems fine, but you do have somewhat of a history of unsubstantive comments based on my skimming.

If you're willing to put that aside, apologize, and promise to follow the rules in the future, the HN mods are typically willing to unban your account if you reach out to them via email.

Really? Interesting. Honestly, that's probably my cue to go. This place was becoming a bit of an echo chamber anyway.

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