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First of all, bring your own domain. That way you can just point the same address elsewhere if you need to switch again without having to deal with forwarding.
by Toutouxc 4y ago
First of all, bring your own domain. That way you can just point the same address elsewhere if you need to switch again without having to deal with forwarding.
edit: As mentioned by a sibling comment, my email is currently on Fastmail, zero problems.
- mr_mitm 4y agoSounds reasonable. Any gotchas there? I already read that vanity TLDs are bad, obscure countries' TLDs are bad, and even .eu may be unstable. Which are good services that can sell me an .org or .de domain for a fair price?
- severino 4y ago> and even .eu may be unstable Do you mean you can lose your domain if your country leaves the EU, or are you talking about other issues?
- mr_mitm 4y agoYes, that's what I had in mind, I may be wrong though. Did any Brits have issues with eu domains after Brexit?
- c12 4y agoYes, but that was due to Brexit. .eu domains may only be registered to a person or entity that exists within the EU. As soon as Brexit crystallised any British person or entity owning a .eu domain was unable to renew it unless they had an address they legally occupied within an EU country. I know a few companies who rented a small amount of office space in France so that they could retain their .eu domain.
- severino 4y agoI guess you can get a .eu domain for ten years. So that could be an option to make sure you have enough time to shift to another domain should your country leave the EU too. Assuming, well, that the EU won't take it away from you before the expiry date just because you lost your EU residence.
- akvadrako 4y agoObscure country TLDs are fine. I've been using https://doubly.so https://doubly.so for a decade and never had trouble with emails.
- c12 4y agoI have heard people say "vanity TLDs are bad" but never experienced it myself. I have email addresses at .co.uk, .digital and .social never had deliverability issues with sending or receiving. When I worked at a large (100m emails/wk) email service provider the key thing was sending IP reputation followed by things like DKIM and SPF DNS records on the sending domain. IP reputation would be an issue if you self hosted your email, but using a reputable provider such as tutanota and fastmail should pose no issue.
- infinita740 4y agoIt's a single data point but a friend of mine had an outage with ".online" in switzerland. We resolved it by pointing clients to use google dns. Never had similar problems with .com
- jrootabega 4y agoSpeaking from personal experience, if you have to spell your domain for people, you will regret it! Also - have separate email stacks for communications and operations. Like it or not, your email is a low-friction way to get access to many of your other accounts, and maybe even a good way to LOSE access to some of your accounts. Your operational email domain should never be published, only used to register accounts and maybe do alerting, etc. You would whitelist senders. You would never use it to say anything, or associate with anyone, that someone might one day find offensive or controversial.
- formerly_proven 4y agoinwx + mailbox.org
- UweSchmidt 4y agoI wouldn't go for the cheapest price, I'd go to some established place in your jurisdiction with a wider product range and size, that targets small businesses. You have a chance to get some useful hotline, and things can be 'integrated' and are more likely to work, i.e. host your website - book the domain example.com - book a managed nextcloud and have it be at cloud.example.com etc. Their email service is likely to have some credibility from the global anti-spam force. They probably have the budget for best practices and reasonable security. As you mention .de domains: The online legal text generators for Impressum/Datenschutzerklärung are likely to have the correct text fragments to use for larger vendors. Overall they just have to uphold some level of reputation I hope. Example: ionos.de
- TedDoesntTalk 4y agoFastmail user here with custom .org domain. Works great; Fastmail app and web. Very satisfied.
- gary_0 4y agoHN thread discussing Fastmail experiences: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31989061 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31989061
- jamil7 4y agoThe only hesitation I have with switching now is Fastmail being based in Australia.
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- creata 4y agoWhy? They aren't offering an end-to-end encrypted service, so as far as I know Australia's laws aren't much worse than, say, the US' laws in this regard.
- Eumenes 4y agoI don't need a custom domain anymore and I find it trivial to change email addresses. I can use 1password to locate accounts, easily migrate, apply a tag, and work through the change over a few hours. I typically change email every 2-3 years and it serves as a good way to review security settings/change passwords. Modern email providers have mailbox porting tools, and they work fine. I use to like having a domain, but dunno, for a privacy nut, seems more secure to not use one.
- return_to_monke 4y agoI don't think the hard thing is switching emails. The difficult thing is telling everyone about the fact that you switched.
- severino 4y ago> I use to like having a domain, but dunno, for a privacy nut, seems more secure to not use one. Care to explain which are those concerns about privacy that you may find when owning a custom email address? Thanks in advance.
- Eumenes 4y agoI was being a bit pedantic but ... a domain registrar could be an attack vector, its not as anonymous as something like proton/tutanota, not beholden to ICANN, if you use an alias related to your domain it could be tied to you. If I give up the domain in the future, it could be used against me in a social engineering way.