Anyone else have a .io domain and worried about the future?
Become unbannable from your email
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#62I never really understood why "owning" a domain is any more owning than you own your Gmail address: a company is letting you use it and that works until they don't. What an I missing?
You probably won't get hacked and have your domain taken down for distributing malware. But you also probably won't be randomly banned by Google/Proton. Neither feels like "full, unbannable control of my email" to me. If anything, I'm more concerned about my little old domain getting hijacked than getting banned from a hosted email account.
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#63Anyone else have a .io domain and worried about the future?
What’s happening with io in the future?
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#64That's good but make sure you don't lose the domain. Ever.
What scenarios are you thinking about to lose the domain? To me, the most common would be forget the pay the bill, or your credit card on file expires.
A light Google search tells me that it is possible with several different providers to pay for up to 10 years in advance. Still, the exact same issues can happen at the 10 years and 1 day mark! How do large corporations handle this problem? Do they have a special contract where the domain register will always keep the domain registered, then bill the corporation directly? That seems like a business venture with juicy margins.
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have you ever lost a domain? I haven’t despite having many domains across a number of registrars over the years. Are people just using bad registrars or what?
Yes, I have. Due to a human mistake we lost a family domain, where I hosted one of my important e-mails.
Did you try to contact ICANN and explain the issue? If you could prove ownership for many years, your case would be quite strong.
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
> There is no way for any service dependent on the DNS System to be irrevocably owned. All you need to do is get an ISO-3166-1 alpha-2 code issued for you, and then never change your name, and you're golden.
Nope, again, not enough. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-level_domain#Historical_do...
All of those changed their names. Not always through their choice.
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#67Anyone wanna share their email strategy? I'm thinking of going for the following but I'm still undecided: 1. 1 custom domain ( .com): this will be used for friends, family and any online accounts that know me IRL. Use Fastmail masked addresses with my custom domain where it makes sense like an online account for amazon. 2. 1 custom domain ( .xyz): this will be used for a blog, professional IRL interviews, corresponde…
Your strategy seems good to me. The primary reference that I use for this kind of stuff is Michael Bazzell's book "Extreme Privacy". It goes into some detail about his strategy for using custom domains to compartmentalize things. That's what I base my own strategy on.
The only thing that I would add is that I prefer to "salt" my single-purpose email addresses with a bunch of random characters to prevent enumeration attacks, since it would be trivial to figure out the email address that I use for different services by just guessing. If I used amazon@domain.net, I might also use uber@domain.net, etc. Adding a salt prevents this from happening.
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#68I am actually working on doing the opposite and getting rid of my custom domains. I’m not really doing anything with them except spending money to have them. Working on getting all my socials to basically match with a similar username and just go from there.
If I host my blog, assuming I actually start making posts, on GitHub with a custom domain, when I die then the domain will likely expire and the blog is no longer accessible. If I keep it with my GitHub .io url, it’ll be there for as long as the account is there.
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#69Been doing this for years, and surprised he didn't seem to mention the other benefit: "infinity" email addresses. Oh, rando burger spot wants an email for some free fries? Great, hit me up at randoburgerspot@"mydomain".com .
Could also be useful if someone puts a typo in your email username when sending you an important email. You'll still get the email with a catch-all emails set up on your own domain. But you won't without this.
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#70Anyone else have a .io domain and worried about the future?
Yeah kinda. Honestly when I signed up for it I had no idea it was a country TLD, let alone that it might disappear so easily one day. If it does go away I'll live, but it will be quite annoying to have to switch my entire digital life over to a new domain. I've had my domain for 10+ years so lots of stuff is pointed there.