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Running your own domain and email server also adds new attack vectors for somebody wishing to gain access to your email. In addition to the obvious security iss
by jpalomaki 9y ago
Running your own domain and email server also adds new attack vectors for somebody wishing to gain access to your email. In addition to the obvious security issues related to running your own server the attacker may also use social engineering for the registrar, hosting provider provider or DNS provider support people.
If more people would realize the importance of email address as the key to their online identity, this might open up a business opportunity for banks. My bank knows me, they have the proper ways for offline identification (if I loose my online access and I have quite good confidence on them. I would not expect the bank to run full email service for me, but they could provide forwarding service. Should I run to trouble with the actual mail provider, let's say Google blocking my account, I could just work with the bank to setup forwarding to other location.
- hvidgaard 9y agoYou don't have to run anything yourself, just "hold the key to the domain" so to speak. Relying on a mail provider to host the email server is fine, and if they try to take it from you, you can be up and running with a different provider in less than 10 minutes, with it fully probagated 24 hours time. You are still in complete control over the future of all email on that domain.
- kodt 9y agoUnless the TLD fails.
- jpalomaki 9y agoAnd five days later on HN: "Taking Control of All .io Domains With a Targeted Registration" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14737322 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14737322
- moftz 9y agoThen there will be much bigger things than getting email to worry about, especially if you have a .com or any of the other main ones.