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> if I were unable to renew my domain (e.g., in case of death), While I agree about the “losing control” issue, however, when you own a domain you actually own

> if I were unable to renew my domain (e.g., in case of death), While I agree about the “losing control” issue, however, when you own a domain you actually own it, not renting it, not lease it, It is yours, and unless you do something clearly illegal no one can just take it, an email in another provider however, they can delete your email with all its content anytime, and most of the times you can’t do anything about it because it’s written in a TOS that was revised a few months ago. > Another concern is privacy. Using a unique domain name for email stands out, True, but you can use a masked email with your own domain too, several services provide that, masked email -> your domain email, so you can have iCloud masked email sent to your domain one. Having your own domain as an email provides a lot of advantages, The top one is you are provider agnostic, if you don’t like X provider, just change your MX, SPF, etc. DNS and you are good to go in a few minutes, now imagine if that would be something@gmail and you wanted to change to another@gmail, You have to go to all the services you are using and signed up for (assuming you have a list of them say in a password vault), change each, verify each, and then update your password vault so the new email is used, good luck with a whole week work. Another big advantage of using your own domain is the concept of separation of concerns, If that site is breached, not only you will know faster than the site admin, but that email is only valid for that account, and useless elsewhere. Additionally, anyone who is using OSINT against you, will not be able to pull out all the services you are using/used with that email, that also works if you have masked emails. Just keep in mind, if you use your own domain try as much as possible to have a .com one, I noticed some providers (MS Exchange/Outlook) mark some domains that are not .com as spam. Lastly, emails are NOT secure, the protocol was not designed with security in mind, no matter if the provider is promising top notch security, it is not, the only time it is secure if PGP is used by both parties.

jsjohnst 3y ago
> when you own a domain you actually own it, not renting it, not lease it, It is yours, and unless you do something clearly illegal no one can just take it Since when did something you “own” require recurring renewal fees or else it’s repossessed by the place you got it from. That is essentially the very foundational difference between a lease/rent and “own”. Further, “no one can just take it” is so clearly misguided and factually wrong which even a basic google search can uncover countless examples of it happening.

jsjohnst 3y ago

> when you own a domain you actually own it, not renting it, not lease it, It is yours, and unless you do something clearly illegal no one can just take it Since when did something you “own” require recurring renewal fees or else it’s repossessed by the place you got it from. That is essentially the very foundational difference between a lease/rent and “own”. Further, “no one can just take it” is so clearly misguided and factually wrong which even a basic google search can uncover countless examples of it happening.