ProtonBlog
Proton.me

Introducing proton.me, a new email domain for Proton Mail

Share this page

Last updated: 29 April 2022 — We’re extending the deadline to activate a free @proton.me address until 8 June.

When we founded Proton Mail in 2014, we realized one of the best ways to help everyone protect their privacy was to make sending encrypted email as convenient as possible. This includes providing you with an email address that is easy to share with friends and family. 

Today, we’re happy to introduce proton.me, an additional email domain you can use to send and receive email securely! A shorter email domain was one of the most requested features from the Proton 2022 survey(new window), so we’re pleased to provide this option to you. 

If you have a Proton Mail account, you’ll be able to activate a free @proton.me address in the coming days. That means if your current email address is john@protonmail.com, you can activate john@proton.me. Until 8 June, the @proton.me address associated with your username can be activated for free. After 8 June, you’ll still be able to activate your @proton.me address if you’re a paying Proton Mail subscriber. In any case, your @proton.me address will be reserved indefinitely for you as long as you keep your account active(new window).

Activate your @proton.me address

As always, you can continue sending mail from your existing Proton Mail address(es). Your new @proton.me address will not count toward your address limit(new window)

What is @proton.me?

As more people turn to Proton Mail to protect their privacy, we want to empower them to take control of their data. We added proton.me as an additional domain so that you can have multiple secure Proton Mail addresses, allowing you to choose which to share and with whom. 

We like to think that @proton.me is like a code. You can tell your friends and family to “Proton me” a message or file so they know that whatever they send will be encrypted on the Proton network and only read by you.   

You can use your new @proton.me address to register for online accounts, subscribe to newsletters, and send private messages to friends and family. All emails sent to your @proton.me address will land in your inbox as usual. 

If you’d like an even shorter email address, our short domain @pm.me is also available for paying subscribers(new window)

Activating your @proton.me address

i

You can activate your @proton.me address by logging in to your Proton Mail account on your web browser. Once you’re logged in:

  1. Click Settings → All settings at the top right and select Identity and addresses in the left sidebar.
  2. Activate your @proton.me address under the @proton.me section. 
  3. You can set your @proton.me address as your default address for sending and receiving mail.

If you’re a paying Proton Mail subscriber, you can also create additional @proton.me addresses.

If you’re new to Proton Mail and you’d like your own @proton.me address, sign up for a free Proton Mail account(new window).

Thank you for being a member of the Proton community. We appreciate your support!

Secure your emails, protect your privacy
Get Proton Mail free

Share this page

Andy Yen

Andy is the founder and CEO of Proton. He is a long-time advocate for privacy rights and has spoken at TED, Web Summit, and the United Nations about online privacy issues. Previously, Andy was a research scientist at CERN and has a PhD in particle physics from Harvard University.

Related articles

Last week, the Spanish Presidency of the European Council delayed a vote regarding the Council’s position on the controversial Child Sexual Abuse Regulation (CSAR) due to a lack of consensus over the issue of encryption, among others. This proposed r
At Proton, we’re always working on new and innovative ways to protect the privacy and data of the Proton community. Sometimes that means developing entirely new services, like our Proton Sentinel program, which combines AI and human security analysts
How to unsend an email in Gmail, Outlook, Proton Mail, and Apple Mail
“Undo Send” gives you a chance to stop an erroneous message you’ve just sent. We’ve all done it. You hit Send on an email only to spot you’ve misspelled someone’s name, forgotten an attachment, or accidentally sent a cringing joke to half your conta
Google has already taken privacy washing to the extreme by trying to brand itself as “privacy focused”, even though its business model is based on surveillance.  Lately, the company’s marketing strategy has turned toward outright Orwellian doublespe
Last week, the UK government made a statement in the House of Lords acknowledging that portions of the controversial Online Safety Bill might not even be technically enforceable without breaking end-to-end encryption. This rightly received a lot of a
What is email spoofing?
Email spoofing is a technique attackers use to make a message appear to be from a legitimate sender — a common trick in phishing and spam emails. Learn how spoofing works, how to identify spoofed messages, and how to protect yourself from spoofing a