HACKER Q&A
📣 shaftway

What do you use your vanity domain for?


I finally grabbed a vanity domain, just for the email address (firstname@lastname.com). Now that I've got my email set up I'm wondering what other uses there are for this domain.

Ideas so far:

  - Subdomains for various project websites
  - Resume
  - Links to past project or code repos
  - Personal Blog
Anyone have any other good things they use their vanity domain for?

  👤 actionowl Accepted Answer ✓
I use it not only for my personal email, but also for email aliases.

Whenever I sign up for anything I create a new email alias (foo@mydomin.com) pointed at my primary email. This helps me thwart faulty unsubscription services by just deleting the alias as needed or by detecting when a service has shared my email with 3rd parties or has been breached.

👤 ddingus
Right now, almost nothing. I have in the past used it for:

Writing, was originally a weblog, then blog.

Testing of various services.

Email tricks of various kinds. Did a spam map at one point handing out email addresses containing company names.

They literally all sold out!

👤 Jeremy1026
If its a fairly common last name, you could sell email addresses for otherfirstnames@lastname.com. That whats .com is being used for.
👤 mattbgates
Used to have my own name domain but eventually registered a business LLC and now do everything through there.
👤 ecesena
At least, redirect to linkedin/twitter/github. Quick&dirty but easy to maintain.
👤 enonevets
I have domains for email, self-hosted software, internal tools, and private access.
👤 kazinator
> Anyone have any other good things they use their vanity domain for?

Remote access.