How to get virtually unlimited unique email addresses

Most people know about the . and the + trick with Gmail.  Well some sites like Kroger have wised up and will disallow + Gmail addresses.  Thus, you’ll want some real unique email addresses.  You may be thinking, well I don’t want to check 100 email addresses!  Well me either.  That’s why you have a ‘catch-all’ email address.  So you can have all 100 email addresses all go to one Gmail address.  Here’s how to do it.

 

  1. Go out to Namecheap and buy a domain, preferably a cheap one – https://www.namecheap.com/.  I bought a $.48 domain for 1 year with an all in cost of $.66
  2. Once you’ve bought the domain, set up your catchall email like shown below
  3. Wait about 15 minutes and then try to email yourself.  So if you bought john.xyz, you can try to email test@john.xyz and see if it appears in your real Gmail address that you configured in step 2.
  4. If it works, which it should, you can now create as many accounts with whatever site you like.

 

A couple of watchouts.  NOT ALL DOMAINS REDIRECT CORRECTLY.  If it doesn’t work, try emailing Namecheap or try to buy a different domain.  Secondly, if word of this domain gets out, you could be spammed relentlessly, so I’d only use the emails to create accounts on site.  Enjoy.  Kudos to @esthery for nudging me to get this up and running.

7 comments on “How to get virtually unlimited unique email addresses

  1. This is a great trick. I was needing a more professional sounding email address for my home business. I didn’t realize how cheap Domains had become.

  2. When I go to namecheap it says, “…with every domain name purchase, get 2 months’ FREE private email!” If I buy a domain for a year I’d want email for more than 2 months, what am I missing here?

  3. Thanks! I forgot all about this. I haven’t had my own domain in about 10 years. I have a lot of accounts to update.

  4. Been doing this for well over a decade with my own domains and G Suite. Also makes it really easy to see who sold your email address or got hacked because if you start getting spam to milesperday@yourdomain for example, you know what happened and can easily filter those out.

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