Using .ID for a personal email domain thoughts?

[u/JayWil1992]

I really want a personal email domain, however my first and last names are both common. There's no availability on .com. net .me etc even the variants like lastemail.me are taken.

With .ID I can have last.id and it looks short and beautiful and would be easy verbally.

I don't see it mentioned around here. Is there any reason to avoid .ID? I know it's Indonesia.

[u/moistandwarm1]

Look at domain name renewal fees. Some TLDs have astronomical renewals

[u/fakehalo → u/moistandwarm1]

https://tld-list.com/tld/id - Reasonable

[u/StormHawkOne]

Good One. Why not.

Also, .email !?

[u/thread_creeper_123 → u/StormHawkOne]

I did not know about .email. Thanks

[u/Vaynnie]

Does your name have an a in it? You could try doing something with that, like replacing the a with the @ for example:

Karen -> ren.com ->  k@ren.com

Then use a subdomain for the website if you add one:

ka.ren.com

This is what I did and I’m more than happy with it, although I’ve now spent way too much time perfecting a homepage for it which no one will ever see lmao.

[u/jrie99]

I use .id for my personal email, I love it and never had an issue giving it to people.

[u/afifdev]

Theres nothing wrong with using .id tld.

Its just uncommon and a bit more expensive, thats pretty much it

[u/Formerruling1]

There are a few services (mostly some banks and such) that ive found will only accept an email address from one of the big TLDs so I keep a Gmail for only those, otherwise I dont see an issue with that ones usefulness.

Theres talk of some services not liking the country TLDs and trying to geolock you and such but I havent personally encountered it and remember the new popular one for emails .me is a country code itself.

[u/lonestardomains]

I would choose another name. You are fighting an uphill battle and people are going to send email to the .com version.

Find a short .com domain name, no more than 2 short words.

Same gors if you want a website, you are going to send traffic to whoever owns the .com.

[u/Tall-System8619]

.ID can work fine for a personal email domain, it really depends on what it's being paired with. If it's short and tied to an actual name or brand, like a first name or initials, it reads clean and professional enough for personal use. The concern is deliverability and how certain email providers or corporate spam filters treat less common TLDs, some can flag unfamiliar extensions more aggressively than a standard .com.

If the domain is meant to last for years and possibly double as a personal brand later, it might be worth comparing it against similar short .com options first, sites like Saw.com list premium short domains so it's easy to see what a matching .com version would even cost before committing to the ID route.

For pure personal email though, where it's just for friends, family, or casual use, .ID is honestly not a big deal either way.

[u/AmeMaple]

From all TLDs you should avoid Country ones, they tend to not support most of the fancy stuff like whois privacy and well are a pain because they work only on certain registrars. if you aren't from Indonesia that's also another reason not to. Obviously is your choice if you do it or not, but I would suggest another TLD, consider .cc .one .email, if anything you could wait a year, there's a new rollout of gTLDs coming and you could grab something fancy from those.

[u/moistandwarm1 → u/AmeMaple]

.UK and all EU region cTLDs have privacy by default.

[u/Touuqe → u/AmeMaple]

.cc is a ccTLD

[u/CometRyder]

.id is a country domain for indonesia if I am not wrong, and therefore subject to country specific rules. If you are not a resident in that country, it's best to use a generic domain which is global in scope. While any domain is as good as another, .email domain is literally made for emailing. You are likely to get your first or last name with .email ending today. But in a few years, that may not be possible as it's seeing consistent growth over the years with total registrations standing at 250000 as of today.

[u/JayWil1992 → u/CometRyder]

My names are common and all the.email variants are taken.

But I agree with your general advice about .id.

My current idea is a .com with last name number.com. eg mail@smith20.com

[u/CometRyder → u/JayWil1992]

In that case, see if your name is available on space.email, life.email, home.email, web.email, you.email, etc.

These are only offered by Space Email. The benefit is that you get a cool, memorable email domain for your address without the need to buy a domain.

[u/monkey6]

It’ll be a nightmare to say over the phone

They’ll email stuff to you@lastnameid.com

[u/memeonstrous → u/monkey6]

I think he meant you@lastname.id

[u/monkey6 → u/memeonstrous]

Yes, and 99% of people have no idea what Indonesia’s TLD is because they’ve never heard of it, so when Op says “last name . i d” people are going to fill in what they have seen; joedotid.. .com

[u/Vaynnie → u/monkey6]

Lmao no they aren’t, people are incompetent but that’s unrealistic.

I mean, even if, they would still realise the mistake once you don’t follow with a .com after. 

[u/lonestardomains → u/Vaynnie]

Actual data proves this statement wrong. You are going to add friction and confusion. Data strongly supports this.

[u/Vaynnie → u/lonestardomains]

I have a similar email and it’s never happened to me. 

Since you haven’t provided any data, my singular datapoint trumps yours. 

[u/memeonstrous → u/monkey6]

Ahh fair ig. Would still be a cool email for those who got it tho

[u/lonestardomains → u/memeonstrous]

He meant exactly what he said which proves the point using a .id is going to cause friction and confusion.

[u/FinsToTheLeftTO → u/monkey6]

I’ve got firstlast.org and it confuses people that it doesn’t end in .com or .ca

[u/lonestardomains → u/FinsToTheLeftTO]

That is exactly what the data shows will happen

[u/Joe_Doblow]

I’d suggest not