A bunch of people wrote to me after I blogged that I picked up coyier.com saying that using it for email would be the perfect usage. Particularly since chris@coyier.com is pretty cool, and could use it for other family members potentially.
I pulled the trigger and did it, so feel free to email me at that address. I also went with a “catchall” so any address @coyier.com should come to me. No noise at all so far. This blog post might change that haha.
The domain is on GoDaddy and I’m not using it for anything else right now, so I just pointed the nameservers at Fastmail and it all works fine. It makes the domain, when visited from the web, a “Not Found” page though we which isn’t super ideal. Then I saw that Fastmail can host a static website, which is kinda awesome. I think I’ll plop something up there one of these days.
At the moment I don’t plan to make my coyier.com stuff my “official” email address, and I just haven’t though through entirely how a transition like that would work. I’m not unhappy using chriscoyier@gmail.com on Gmail. If I were to “switch”, that setup would need to continue to work forever, so there would have to be some setup where I’m receiving at both in a nice combined setup.
For now, using a totally different provider should be a fun way to dip toes into something different. I can check out the website and mobile app, both of which seem pretty nice so far. As Viktor commented before, there is a native macOS app (third-party) as well, which could be fun to check out. I was also told that there is a minor concern that the app is Australian and there is some law that required it to have a back door for the government. That’s the kind of thing that I both don’t like but also that doesn’t affect me all that much.
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