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I've had my own domain / email since like forever. I've no idea why would anyone entrust such a vital things to any single private company.
by FpUser 5y ago
I've had my own domain / email since like forever. I've no idea why would anyone entrust such a vital things to any single private company.
- rfrey 5y agoBecause none of my email would get delivered if I didn't.
- fortran77 5y agoOwn your own domain, but have the email serviced by Microsoft, Google, etc.
- FpUser 5y agoThis is what I do, maybe it was not clear from my post
- vidarh 5y agoMy domain was hosted by Google. It's now hosted by Fastmail. Even if you don't want to operate your own email, having your own domain gets you most of the upside by making it easy to move.
- Maxburn 5y agoExactly, you own it and can move it wherever you want and keep the same address.
- Maxburn 5y agoOwning your own domain and email account doesn't mean you have to host it yourself, most email hosting providers will handle that. BUT if you get kicked off of one of those you can take your owned domain to another email hosting provider and be up and running again with the same address. That's a pretty important differentiator IMO.
- selfhoster11 5y agoThis is hyperbole, but I can agree with this partially. Deliverability on a self-hosted email server is not for the faint of heart.
- FpUser 5y agoI do not host the server.
- selfhoster11 5y agoI host mine (see my username)
- mindslight 5y agoI'm in the same camp, but registrar / registry are still singular private companies. They're seemingly less further along the path of degradation, but not immune. (although I do remember when Godaddy pulled a domain hosting security vulnerabilities at the behest of Myspace, like two decades ago)