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Ik.me: a free email address for life developed and hosted in Switzerland

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Re: Ik.me: a free email address for life developed and hosted in Switzerland

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Post by archerx »

nicopappl wrote: post #19

Infomaniak is a well known Swiss hosting company that existed for over 20 years. I'm a bit surprised to see this name here in hacker news. I would be surprised if this wasn't a long-term move. Simply because claiming "free for life" and back down would be disastrous for their reputations.

Infomaniak is one of the worst host I have ever worked with, I was forced to deal with them on a previous job and it was not a good experience, also their support was incredibly unhelpful and condescending. I also don't trust them because they pay for positive reviews, I know this because on of the "review writers" offered money me to translate some of the reviews he's written to English.

I love Switzerland but I will never use a Swiss host because you pay more and get less every time.

Re: Ik.me: a free email address for life developed and hosted in Switzerland

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Post by red_admiral »

Let me get this right: a Swiss company, offering email FOR LIFE, hosted on a Montenegro domain? What's the backup plan if that domain becomes unavailable for whatever political reason in the future?

I would personally assess the risk of some damned stupid thing happening in the Balkans that loses them the domain higher than the same thing happening to a .ch address, and perhaps a bit too high for a service whose main selling point is for life.

Re: Ik.me: a free email address for life developed and hosted in Switzerland

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Post by archerx »

rusticpenn wrote: post #20
mattmanser wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So, selling your email content and personal data when he sells his company in 5 years time?

Its apparently a 20 year old company, which is pretty old by internet standards.

old != not shady.

Re: Ik.me: a free email address for life developed and hosted in Switzerland

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Post by teva »

rusticpenn wrote: post #20
mattmanser wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So, selling your email content and personal data when he sells his company in 5 years time?

Its apparently a 20 year old company, which is pretty old by internet standards.

Exactly. I don't know what are everyone talking about. It's one of the biggest, if not the biggest, hosting provider here in Europe. It's older than Google.

Re: Ik.me: a free email address for life developed and hosted in Switzerland

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Post by andrewshadura »

red_admiral wrote: post #52

Let me get this right: a Swiss company, offering email FOR LIFE, hosted on a Montenegro domain? What's the backup plan if that domain becomes unavailable for whatever political reason in the future? I would personally assess the risk of some damned stupid thing happening in the Balkans that loses them the domain higher than the same thing happening to a .ch address, and perhaps a bit too high for a service whose main…

This is hilariously wrong. When did something like that happen the last time in Montenegro?

Re: Ik.me: a free email address for life developed and hosted in Switzerland

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Post by eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 »

smarx007 wrote: post #28
dgiol wrote: post #16

Mmm, "privacy-friendly". It asks for a phone number (it's mandatory during sign up), which can only be obtained with an official ID...

privacy !== anonymity

> privacy !== anonymity

Why not?

With the same reasoning you could deny selling people food unless they show you their government ID.

Would you consider such an abomination a country where privacy still exists?

If you strip people from basic anonymity for no sane reason they have no privacy.

If all you want is to prevent people from signing up infinite accounts then have them solve a bazillion captchas or pay a token amount of cryptocurrency, but don't ask them to connect their account to completely unrelated private information.

Email operates independently of cell phone numbers, so it shouldn't be required to connect yours to your mail address.

Re: Ik.me: a free email address for life developed and hosted in Switzerland

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Post by monkin »

systemvoltage wrote: post #45

Folks - pay $5/month for Fastmail, Migadu, ProtonMail, or self host + your own domain name. Companies like this come and go, it’s a good chance you’ll still own the domain name. There is no such thing as free. They’ll nag you for hosting on their site. UI will degrade over time. Something will give, if not now, at some point in the future. Lifetime is a bold claim. I’m being cynical but this smells like an attempt to…

+1 for Migadu or ProtonMail, both offer great service, but Migadu with $19 yearly plan and amount of features is just incomparable to any other service.
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