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Fake email address: what it is, and how to make one that works
The two halves of an address and which one decides acceptance, what the name may contain, and how to pick one you will still recognise tomorrow.
A site will not accept your fake email
Two different failures look the same at a sign-up form: the address is refused, or it is taken and nothing arrives. How to tell which, and what actually helps.
Which zone to put your domain in — and who can take it away
Two questions decide it: whether sign-up forms accept mail from that zone, and whether anyone is obliged to hear you when the domain disappears.
A list of test email addresses
Generate as many test addresses as you need, at domains reserved by standard so nothing sent to them can reach a person.
Gmail Washer
Dots and plus tags make one Gmail look like many. This reduces any list of variants to the single address they all deliver to.
Punycode Converter
Convert emoji and non-Latin domains to the xn-- form and back, in your browser. Plus the two moments you actually need it.
Reaching your inbox without keeping the tab open
The Chrome extension — and why you do not need an extension at all for new-mail alerts.
Your fake email stopped receiving: finding out why
Three checks that tell you which of the three possible causes it is — and what each one means you can do.
Facebook rejected your fake email address
The «invalid email» message is a block-list on their side, not a broken address. What actually helps, in the order worth trying.
Free fake email with Freenom — and why it stopped workingArchived
The free-domain service this guide was built on shut down in 2023. Kept for the part that outlived it: what a free domain actually costs you.