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Ask HN: Best practices for whois contact info?
Go Daddy has changed its position on SOPA, but I've already begun the transfer of my domains to another registrar whose CEO doesn't enjoy killing elephants. This is an opportunity to do a little housecleaning with my registration contact info. Currently I have something like this:
foo.com sowbug@qux.com
bar.com sowbug@qux.com
baz.com sowbug@qux.com
qux.com sowbug@qux.com
Left column is domain, and right column is whois contact info for that domain. They're all personal (i.e., non-business) domains, though my whole digital life flows through them.
It doesn't seem smart to have me@example.com as the whois contact for example.com; if something went wrong with the domain, then I'll also likely have lost the ability to receive email there. Since all my domains are (soon to be) at the same registrar, I don't want to use another domain I own, either, because it's likely when something goes wrong with one domain, it'll happen to the others at the same registrar under the same account, too. It's tempting to use a Gmail address, but I hesitate to use a free email provider as part of my domain security policy. Finally, as a somewhat orthogonal point, privacy protectors like myprivacy.ca are nice, and they could conceivably break the cycle in the dependency graph, but again, as with Gmail, I worry it could become the weak link (e.g., myprivacy.ca still needs an email address for password recovery).
What do you do?
- ohashi 15y agoI use a paid email service (hushmail.com) and their domain (not a custom one on their platform). It's not foolproof by itself. But then again, I also can pick up the phone and call my company and know people who work there very well, so that's somewhat of an unfair advantage. Some places offer 'executive lock' features where they will have extra processes to verify and make changes to help keep your domains secure. Fabulous and Moniker are the two that come to mind for executive lock feature. Fabulous caters almost exclusively for large portfolio holders and my personal favorite. Moniker is probably a bit more friendly for more 'normal' users.