Add new fake email domain name

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A generated address lasts a few days and shares a domain with everyone else — which is why a service that has seen that domain before may refuse it. Your own domain fixes both at once: the address lives as long as the registration does, and nobody has had a chance to put it on a list.

It is one DNS record. Below is exactly what to put in it.

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 reclaim them without notice and without explanation, and nothing was paid, so there is no recourse. A domain that vanishes takes every address on it along.

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 name this field differently.
Record TypeMXMX specifically. Neither A nor CNAME will do.
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. There is more about it below.
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About that trailing dot. It marks the name as absolute. Some registrars require it, some add it for you, and a few reject it. If the panel refuses the value, remove the dot and save again — that is the usual cause, and it is the single most common reason a correct record does not work.

3. Wait, then check

DNS changes take anywhere from a minute to a day to spread, depending on what the previous record's TTL was. There is nothing to speed that up, but you can see exactly where it stands: the domain debugger asks your domain's own name servers, live, and shows what they answer right now.

Once it reports the MX record, the domain is ready. 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. Write to us through the Feedback link, or this address, with the subject “New Domain”, and tell us:

We will tell you exactly where the record goes for that particular panel.

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Never send us — or anyone — the login and password for your registrar. An earlier version of this page asked for exactly that, and it should not have. Those credentials control the whole domain, not one record, and email is the worst possible way to move them. No legitimate service needs them to help you add an MX record.

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