As an SEO, you’ll want professional email on your own domains for your money sites, and a way to give every PBN domain its own address without managing hundreds of inboxes.
If you’re concerned about Google connecting your sites, many SEOs avoid Gmail and Google Workspace for this and choose an independent email provider instead.
The key feature is aliases: extra addresses that all deliver to one inbox. Every domain you register needs a working contact address, and putting them all on one domain is a footprint you’ll want to avoid. Aliases let you create a separate persona for each domain, and read everything in one place.
On LaunchCDN, every domain gets free email forwarding, or we can set the MX and SPF records for the providers below when you deploy. Need another provider? Our support team will add its records for you.
Email Providers Compared
| Provider | Free plan | Your own domains | Aliases | Auto-forwarding |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fastmail | No (free trial) | Yes | Yes, including on Fastmail’s own domains | Yes |
| Proton Mail | Yes (no custom domains) | Paid plans | Yes | Paid plans |
| Tuta | Yes (no custom domains) | Paid plans | Paid plans | No |
| Zoho Mail | Limited free plan | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Runbox | No (free trial) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Rackspace Email | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Plans and limits change often, so check each provider’s current pricing before you sign up.
Fastmail
Fastmail is an independent, privacy-focused provider with a fast web interface and solid apps. It hosts email on your own domains, and it also owns a long list of its own domains that you can create aliases on. That combination makes it ideal for PBN owners: run your business email on your own domain, and give each PBN a Whois address on one of Fastmail’s domains, so nothing links back to you.
How to create aliases with Fastmail
Proton Mail
Proton Mail is an end-to-end encrypted email service founded by scientists who met at CERN, and one of the best-known privacy-focused providers. The free plan is fine for a personal address, but you’ll need a paid plan to use your own domains, and the plan level sets how many domains and addresses you get.
How to create aliases with Proton Mail
Tuta
Tuta (formerly Tutanota) is an open-source, end-to-end encrypted email service based in Germany. Custom domains and aliases need a paid plan. It doesn’t support automatic forwarding to another provider, so plan to read your mail in Tuta itself. There are no password resets either: lose your password and recovery code, and the account is gone.
Zoho Mail
Zoho Mail is part of Zoho’s business software suite, and a popular low-cost alternative to Google Workspace. Its free plan covers a small number of users on one domain with web access, and paid plans add more storage, apps access and domains.
How to forward email with Zoho Mail
Runbox
Runbox is a privacy-focused provider based in Norway, running on its own infrastructure. Paid plans include your own domains and aliases, and you can add extra domains for a small fee.
How to create aliases with Runbox
Rackspace Email
Rackspace Email is a no-frills business email service with low per-mailbox pricing, unlimited domains and plenty of aliases. There are no shared Rackspace domains to put aliases on, so every alias has to live on a domain you own.
How to create aliases with Rackspace Email
Forwarding-Only Services
If you only need mail for each domain to reach an inbox you already have, a forwarding service is simpler than full hosting. LaunchCDN can set up MX records for ImprovMX, ForwardMX and EmailForward.MX, or you can use the free forwarding included with every domain.
Our Recommendation
We recommend Fastmail. It handles email on your own domains for your business, and its own shared domains let you give every PBN its own alias without a footprint that links them together. Proton Mail is the pick if end-to-end encryption matters most, and Zoho Mail if budget is the priority.
Whichever you choose, avoid putting every PBN’s contact address on a single domain, and keep your business email separate from your network.
