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[โ€“] r3tr0_97@ani.social 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

What are you using those 6 domains for? Genuine question btw

[โ€“] kossa@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I have also like quite some domains.

One just firstnamelastname to have it

One for homelabbing

One for business

One, because I thought firstname@lastname.email was a cool idea. Now all my accounts run through it and I cannot change it anymore :/

One for my old startup, where I just like the name to much

One for another old business, but my mailserver runs through that domain, and it is too much of a bother to change that ๐Ÿ˜…

So, remember folks: don't buy too many domains, it becomes a liability.

[โ€“] tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 2 points 2 months ago

Two are fedi instances, one is "official (related to my legal name)" and mostly used for email, one for personal selfhosted stuff I want to access from outside without vpn (like this Lemmy instance), one used to be a local concert calendar which I sunset so it's not needed anymore. Currently forgot the sixth one lol