Prerequisites:
Phone Number
Personal email address
Willingness to compromise your identity:
Mobile Device recommended
Search NetworkSolutions for the domain name you are interested in. To be registered after reserving emails and social media accounts
Example: domain.gd
Create public email addresses with a prefix matching the domain. This helps prevent others from impersonating you.
Decide on a birthday with your age to use consistently when registering accounts
Decide on a First Name , Last Name consistent with your domain identity
A one-time code will be sent to your personal email address; Protonmail retains a hash of the address.
Record the password in a secure location
Print out your recovery phrase for Protonmail
Go to outlook.com, sign out; click "Create free account" under "Sign in"
Register with email, password, birthday, name (uncheck the marketing emails). Create a passkey too.
Record the password in a secure location
Open an Incognito or Edge browser
Go to gmail.com, click Create account, for my work or business. Click "Get a Gmail address".
Enter First name , Last Name
Enter Birthday and Gender
Enter the domain name @gmail.com .
If the email is already taken, create an account for personal use with the protonmail or outlook address
Also you could associate admin@domain.xyz after the domain is registered and email forwarding is configured.
Scan a QR code with phone. Send a text message from a phone number (but Google won't let you reuse a number more than 2-3 times).
Enter and confirm password
Verification code sent to phone SMS.
You may skip adding the phone number once the SMS is handled.
Expand more options, don't save Web and App activity, don't show personalized adds, don't save YouTube History, click I Agree
Dismiss options to add phone number, home address, and credit card
Under Passkeys and Security, you can "Enroll Windows Hello" to create a passkey
See instructions for forwarding @domain email to one of these addresses
Create social media accounts matching the domain. Even if you don't plan to use them, it prevents others from misusing them.
Choose ONE of the public emails as the registration address. Register each site using the incognito window to prevent cookies from your personal accounts.
Name, Birthday, Gender, email, password
Confirm the email address
Start a video selfie, retained for 30 days. My video was pretty blurry, and the account was suspended right away.
If the account is suspended, or permanently disabled, this is OK as no one else will be able to use it
Instagram and Threads
Same as Facebook
Create Account
Name, (use email instead), birthday
Enter verification code from email
Enter the password, "Create Account"
Skip the profile picture
Username cannot contain period, use domaingd
Select interest, follow one account
Go to bsky.app
Email address, password, birthday
Username cannot contain period, use domaingd
Complete the captcha
Create an avatar instead, select interests, continue, continue, skip,
Email verification is optional; paste into the same browser you created the account
After your domain is setup, you can use it as your Bluesky handle:
Go to Settings, Account, Handle
Click "I have my own domain"
Enter your domain name (@domain.gd), and copy click the copy icon for the "Value" (e.g. did=did:...)
In another window, go to your DNS Server settings (e.g. Cloudflare)
Go to Domain, domain.gd, DNS Records
Add record, Type TXT, name _atproto, content [paste the value from Bluesky], Record Attributes command "Bluesky". Save the record.
In Bluesky, click Verify DNS Record, Update to domain.gd.
Name, email, Area (Washington-DC-Baltimore!)
Job Title: Webmaster, Company: DOMAIN.COM
Confirm the email address
Not looking for a job, skip the photo, skip connections, skip following, continue past the app
Click your profile name, Notifications. Turn off all notifications except Verifications
Set Data Privacy and Advertising data options to turn off intrusive settings.
Recommended to verify using the LinkedIn app on your mobile device
Under Sign in & security, you can create a passkey; enter your password once and copy security code from email.
YouTube channel
Go to youtube.com
Sign in with the Google account above
Click on your profile, "Create a channel":
Name as domaingd
Handle as @Domain.gd; append .official or .2026 if needed.
Log in , "New to Reddit? Sign up".
Email, verify the email
Username cannot contain period, use domaingd
Birthday, gender, interests
"Create your own subreddit" named for your domain.
Username cannot contain period, use domaingd
email address, password, birthday
Verify the email address
In your profile set the public name to domain.gd
After the domain is registered, add a custom field:
In your Mastodon profile, click "How to add a verified link". Copy the link HTML.
Edit the link target (HTML file) on your web server. Paste the link in the <head/> section of the page.
In your Mastodon profile, Add field with a URL to the page, and save it.
Next steps: