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Yes! Reducing the risk of losing control of the domain is a great reason to prefer gmail.com, outlook.com, or another similarly theft-hard mail domain. Otherw
by sk5t 10y ago
Yes! Reducing the risk of losing control of the domain is a great reason to prefer gmail.com, outlook.com, or another similarly theft-hard mail domain. Otherwise, if an attacker can trick the registrar or nameserver, it's game-over for all accounts that use mail or mail-dependent factors for authentication.
- Silhouette 10y agoOtherwise, if an attacker can trick the registrar or nameserver That's a mighty big "if", though. For any of the TLDs I'm familiar with, there are significant protections against unintended domain transfers, and that has been the case for a long time for the major ones.