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Reasons to not use your own domain for email

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Re: Reasons to not use your own domain for email

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Post by edrxty »

dkdbejwi383 wrote: post #16

The main reasons for me that I stopped using my own domain: - some sites will just silently refuse to accept addresses on unknown domains and signing up becomes impossible - worse, some sites accept it for sign up, but later on refuse to send a password reset - every time you have you write down or say out our your email address to a non-technical person, you are then obligated to host a mini Q&A on domain names and…

*for weird TLDs

I've had all of these issues and more but only with my address that uses an unusual TLD.

As a joke I've considered creating an inbox at something like atdot@atdotatdot.com just so I can cause havoc when someone freaks out over my address or the subsequent use of NATO phonetics over the phone.

Re: Reasons to not use your own domain for email

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Post by dazc »

alias_neo wrote: post #12
l5870uoo9y wrote: post #8

And furthermore using Google mail for business purposes doesn't have unprofessional stigma anymore, especially amongst younger people (naturally meaning under 50).

Using Google Mail sure, but using Google's domain sure as heck does. I cringe every time I see a business card printed with a gmail.com or similar, or on the side of someone's van. If you can go through the effort of registering a business and having a professional looking logo plastered all over your vans, business card etc, you can almost certainly register a domain for your email.

Purely anecdotal from the UK, but it seems like the more professional the email address and website the more likely it is you're not dealing with a real trades person.

Genuine tradespeople are often always fully booked months in advance and they don't want to be dealing with random emails all of the time, most of which will be time wasters.

For regular businesses though, I agree, it looks bad.

Re: Reasons to not use your own domain for email

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Post by EspressoGPT »

alias_neo wrote: post #12
l5870uoo9y wrote: post #8

And furthermore using Google mail for business purposes doesn't have unprofessional stigma anymore, especially amongst younger people (naturally meaning under 50).

Using Google Mail sure, but using Google's domain sure as heck does. I cringe every time I see a business card printed with a gmail.com or similar, or on the side of someone's van. If you can go through the effort of registering a business and having a professional looking logo plastered all over your vans, business card etc, you can almost certainly register a domain for your email.

I think that's a rather geeky perspective. No non-technical person ever cares.

Re: Reasons to not use your own domain for email

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Post by bandie91 »

dkdbejwi383 wrote: post #16

The main reasons for me that I stopped using my own domain: - some sites will just silently refuse to accept addresses on unknown domains and signing up becomes impossible - worse, some sites accept it for sign up, but later on refuse to send a password reset - every time you have you write down or say out our your email address to a non-technical person, you are then obligated to host a mini Q&A on domain names and…

- some sites will just silently refuse…

→ their problem, not yours, don't take on.

- refuse to send a password reset…

→ is it a payed service? request moneyback, involve customer protection. is it free service? no warranty for you. don't rely on it heavily.

- say out our your email address to a non-technical person…

→ don't connect to people who can not copy ascii letters, written or verbally. my daugther is 5, she can. "@domain" monoculture is bad.

Re: Reasons to not use your own domain for email

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Post by rspoerri »

I dont see any reason from this post not to use a own domain. Only reasons to start using cryptography for emails to sign or encrypt mails. Unfortunately it still has not been standardized to use cryptography in mails. Only few custom, and (afaik) no by default installed mail programms support cryptography without plugins. Also the work involved to set it up and use it across multiple devices and plattforms is could need a big boost.

Re: Reasons to not use your own domain for email

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Post by EduardoBautista »

daft_pink wrote: post #26
EduardoBautista wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Once you have Hide My Email set up, you don't have to log in again. I just forward to another email account that is not on iCloud. The unique email address I generated is saved in 1Password.

You have to pay for icloud for the rest of your life though. I personally had issues with Apple overbilling me and not fixing it, and have shifted away from icloud and it's a huge problem for me, because while most accounts will let me change my email, some accounts will not. I registered a throwaway domain for $10 and i'm using that domain that's the combination of two random english words dot com, and now I use sim…

From what I have heard, you lose access to reply to emails received through Hide My Email if you stop paying. You still receive the emails. When you use "Sign in with Apple" you use an anonymized email as well, and those don't require you to pay.

Re: Reasons to not use your own domain for email

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Post by minimaul »

dkdbejwi383 wrote: post #16

The main reasons for me that I stopped using my own domain: - some sites will just silently refuse to accept addresses on unknown domains and signing up becomes impossible - worse, some sites accept it for sign up, but later on refuse to send a password reset - every time you have you write down or say out our your email address to a non-technical person, you are then obligated to host a mini Q&A on domain names and…

I can confidently say I’ve never had these issues using firstname@firstnamelastname.co.uk and firstname@firstnamelastname.com…

Are you using an unusual vanity domain TLD?

Re: Reasons to not use your own domain for email

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Post by EwanToo »

gmail_temp wrote: post #23
EwanToo wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunately if you stop paying for fastmail or your Google account becomes inactive, they terminate your account and the email address becomes available for a new user. I think the concern that your email address is subject to takeover is valid, but unfortunately relying on generic domains isn't the solution. https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/12418290?hl=en

Citing from Google‘s recent email on account inactivity: ”After a Google Account is deleted, the Gmail address for the deleted account cannot be used again when creating a new Google Account“

That's good to know, though I'm skeptical for the future and it doesn't appear to be in the policy itself from my read through.

They'll have to tackle email exhaustion eventually, and so far they don't seem interested in add new alternative domains.

Re: Reasons to not use your own domain for email

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Post by traceroute66 »

> Reasons to not use your own domain for email

Aside from the fact that the author of the blog doesn't really provide any "reasons" in their blog ...

There are ZERO reasons not to use your own domain name for email.

The biggest reason TO use your own domain name is that you are not subject to the corporate whims of your ISP, cloud-email provider or whatever. You get to choose, and you get to choose when to switch.

The only thing you should NOT do is attempt to host your own email server on a home internet connection. Not only do most home ISPs (quite rightly, IMHO) block port 25, but also most home ISP IP ranges are on blocklists.

To make it clear: Nothing wrong with running your on mailserver. Just don't do it on a home internet connection and then bitch and moan about how its not working !

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