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Re: Become unbannable from your email

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Counterpoint: I lost a domain when a registrar went out of business, and another when a registrar bumped the price 10x and refused to give me authenticode unless I physically show up to their office. Sure, I cheapened out and used shady cheap registrars, and this all happened a while ago so things are probably more regulated now, but for comparison I never permanently lost access to hosted email. (Losing access tempo…

I lost mine when a TLD (.xyz) thought I was malicious. I've also just failed to renew a domain before. So you're relying on the registry operator for the TLD itself to not ban you, the registrar to successfully renew, and yourself and your bank to successfully lay the registrar. In fact the entire reason I stay on free email from a company I don't like is because I think it minimizes the chance I lose access to my em…

You can purchase domains for 10 years. If you buy another year each year then you have 9 years to work out a bank issue.

A registrar banning you doesn’t remove your ownership of the domain. File a complaint with ICANN and you will get it back shortly.

Re: Become unbannable from your email

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was some address in Warsaw, so if I needed that domain badly, it'd be one Ryanair flight away, and definitely an interesting experience :) But I was only using it for a small blog, so I just let it expire. I hoped I would be able to register it again immediately after it expires, but some scammers beat me to it (probably scanning for expiring domains with good reputation/SEO), so last time I checked, the domain is…

Now I am curious. Was that registrar "nazwa.pl"?

No. Nazwa may be a bait-and-switch scam when it comes to pricing, but they are a big registrar that has to play by the rules set by NASK. I used a small "PHP+MySQL+email+domain" provider, that (as I later learned) was so small they didn't want to fork out a few grands a year to NASK to be a proper registrar themselves, so they instead used another (still shady) registrar under the hood.

Re: Become unbannable from your email

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Some services will also ban you for this. Samsung, Amazon, ... so you have to use generic or random words on left side.

Been using this with Amazon and plenty of other services for decades, not sure where you’re coming from.

Samsung now blocks the word samsung at registration time. Previously if you signed up successfully they would disable your account at a random point in the future.

Re: Become unbannable from your email

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I more or less disagree with two points this article makes.

You don't have to go with a major mail hosting service to prevent deliverability issues. Any one of the hundreds of thousands of small local hosting providers should do. I've been with two tiny, local, "boutique" hosters for over 20 years and never noticed any issues. I also have it on good authority that entirely self-hosted e-mail is not as tricky as some like to claim. Set up your SPF, DKIM, and DMARC properly, and obviously don't send any spam or be an open relay, and even Google and Microsoft should have no worries doing business with you. Heck, if abuse scores were that important, Google and Microsoft would be the first hosts anyone would ban.

Also, catch-all is a terrible idea. I used to do it in the mid-2000s. Think about your current spam levels and multiply it by a thousand when every spammer can try jack@, john@, joe@, etc., and everything is delivered. Add to that all the spammers that use something@your-domain as a fake sender, so you get all the non-delivery reports. Ugh.

I used to do this to track leaks and non-consensual passing on of my address (the old registering at Company X with company-x@). This worked a few times, but after a few years I noticed that the amount of breaches and leaks soon make it useless. At this point, according to HaveIBeenPwned, most of the addresses I ever used have been in 20+ leaks each. It just not worth the effort anymore.

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