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Anyone else have a .io domain and worried about the future?
What’s happening with io in the future?
Been 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 .
I like that as well, but it's exhausting having to explain every time that, no, I don't in fact work at randoburgerspot...
I keep expecting to have to explain, but the vast majority of the time people don’t ask.
Not sure what's the best way to handle this, I had my gmail account since the early days and it's baked into so many important accounts. It definitely crosses my mind what it'd be really difficult if I were blocked out somehow.
For most people, who are not doing anything shady/controversial with their domain and are using a .com or .net domain (which are price regulated by ICANN), are not using a shady registrar and will always have the cash on hand to renew as needed, the answer will be Google and co.
Its a good idea to set up auto-renew on a credit card, so you can be sure it will go through and you won't forget to renew it.
That'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 cont…
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For every crucial service (banking, etc), generate a unique, cryptographically-strong email address, save it to your password manager, and have its mail forwarded to your common inbox. If only phone numbers were so easy to mask.
1) what does it mean for an email *address* to be cryptographically strong? 2) in case of hard to remember address, what do you do if asked to write it down with no access to your records? (It happened to me once before)
Something someone couldn’t guess, like:
@domain.com
c4694056-63dd-476f-9823-2548aa3d754a@domain.com
> in case of hard to remember address, what do you do if asked to write it down with no access to your records?
It’s a tradeoff. You’d probably want to use the cryptographically secure addresses sparingly.
Another option would be to use your password manager to create a “memorable” password, which is usually multiple random words, like:
essay-curve-white-cable@domain.com
But again there’s only so many of these you’ll memorize, so use sparingly. Compare it to the cost of just changing the email. Maybe with a bank it’s more work and risk, so it’s worth the added effort, but if it’s the email you use to order pizza, just change it.
Been 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 .
I like that as well, but it's exhausting having to explain every time that, no, I don't in fact work at randoburgerspot...
If I could think of an unambiguous .com, .net, or .org that is a pronounceable word that wasn't registered already by 2001, I'd be maybe willing to try this again.
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For every crucial service (banking, etc), generate a unique, cryptographically-strong email address, save it to your password manager, and have its mail forwarded to your common inbox. If only phone numbers were so easy to mask.
1) what does it mean for an email *address* to be cryptographically strong? 2) in case of hard to remember address, what do you do if asked to write it down with no access to your records? (It happened to me once before)
2) Yes, this is a problem.
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I like that as well, but it's exhausting having to explain every time that, no, I don't in fact work at randoburgerspot...
What? It's your opportunity to nerd out and lecture people on why they're doing email WRONG!!! (only half joking)