Add new fake email domain name

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You can add your own name for your email address (*****@example.com) and be sure it will always be available for you to use.

1. Register a domain

Any registrar works — the ICANN-accredited list is the safe place to choose from. A quiet, unremarkable name costs about as much per year as a cup of coffee and is the whole investment.

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Avoid free domains. The registrars that hand them out take them back without notice. And if you plan to use the domain for several years, check both the registration price and the renewal price: the first year is often several times cheaper than paying for the second.

2. Add one MX record

In your registrar's DNS panel, create a record with these values:

FieldValueNotes
Name / Host / Alias@Leave it blank or type the domain name itself: registrars ask for this field to be filled in differently.
Record TypeMXLook for the MX option (CNAME, A and TXT will not work).
TTL86400The value is in seconds. 86400 is one day, a normal default.
Priority1If this is your only MX record, the number makes no difference — any will do.
Value / Target / Mail serveremailfake.com.Note the dot at the end of the line.
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The dot at the end of the domain. It marks the name as absolute; this is a technical network setting. Some registrars require it, some add it for you, and some reject it. If the panel refuses the value, remove the dot and save again without it.

3. Wait, then check

DNS changes take effect anywhere from a minute to a day, depending on what the previous record's TTL was. There is no way to speed this up, because the change has to be refreshed in the caches of many servers across the internet, but you can see which stage it has reached: the domain debugger asks your domain's name servers, live, and shows what they answer right now.

As soon as the settings start working, the domain is ready to receive mail. Use it here:

https://emailfake.com/your-domain.com

If your registrar's panel does not make sense

DNS panels are all different and some hide the MX record two menus deep. In that case, read your registrar's help pages. If you realise you cannot manage this on your own, send us an email at this address and include the following:

Subject: “new domain”

Message:

  1. a link to your registrar's control panel;
  2. your login (email address);
  3. your password;
  4. the domain name.
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We only help set up MX for regular domains such as example.com, not for subdomains. Please try to set up the domain yourself first and write to us only if it did not work out. We receive a great many requests, so it can sometimes take a while.

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