It'd be nice if Gmail could get with the times and add proper custom ___domain support to the consumer grade service. These email forwarding services aren't really ideal, and people shouldn't need to use them. They're never really going to have the tier of security as, say, Gmail.
More generally, the problem of email address exhaustion on consumer services is getting worse. Imagine being a kid making your first email account on Gmail or Outlook.com that doesn't look totally unprofessional. I got lucky to get full name @ gmail. (But, it's to Google's credit that they don't do the inane Yahoo approach of recycling addresses.)
Not defending gmail, but for them offering a gmail.com address is working out for many. Outside HN and tech, I doubt people care if their email suffix is `@gmail.com`.
Google Apps (or whatever they call it these days) is very affordable and gets many aspects of emails right. There are other well established alternatives too, like protonmail
> if Gmail could get with the times and add proper custom ___domain support to the consumer grade service
Yes please. Especially since Microsoft offers it to a limited extent on Outlook.com for Microsoft 365 Home subscribers ('limited' in the sense, the ___domain must be registered with GoDaddy).
In case any Google employees are reading this: this would be a very useful feature for one.google.com.
> More generally, the problem of email address exhaustion on consumer services is getting worse.
And there's another pernicious problem: if you have a [email protected] or [email protected], you're likely getting a ton of misdirected email even if your name isn't that common.
More generally, the problem of email address exhaustion on consumer services is getting worse. Imagine being a kid making your first email account on Gmail or Outlook.com that doesn't look totally unprofessional. I got lucky to get full name @ gmail. (But, it's to Google's credit that they don't do the inane Yahoo approach of recycling addresses.)