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I've owned a domain for 20 years and always had my mail hosted by one of the web hosting companies. I've used a couple hosting providers, but to be honest, I'm
by galago 6y ago
I've owned a domain for 20 years and always had my mail hosted by one of the web hosting companies. I've used a couple hosting providers, but to be honest, I'm not certain how they've handled my mail in terms of privacy. It never seemed "non-optimal" to own the domain. I still think using gmail or other free services is a bad idea, but i don't generally say it out loud much anymore. People react negatively because they don't want to consider whether the services they depend on are misusing their personal information.
- aduitsis 6y agoThank you, I meant non-optimal in the sense that using a (possibly free) email provider as a "backend" might mean that the emails are eventually accessible by third parties. Having your own domain like that mostly shields from the provider locking you out of your email on a whim, but certainly doesn't help much with privacy.
- jabroni_salad 6y agoI have read some horror stories from people who have lost control of their domain. Now you have a hostile actor holding it for ransom and able to receive your mail. I really like having full control of my MX record but that's something I keep in the back of mind. Whenever I think of it I go and top off my registration up to 10 years so I don't have to worry about auto-renew failing.
- adtac 6y agocounter-intuitively, it's better if you didn't renew 10 years at once because you're much more likely to forget after 10 years