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How on earth is that anonymous? All of your emails are on the same domain, and nobody else is using that domain. As soon as I see an email @jamesboehmersdomain,
by 7786655 6y ago
How on earth is that anonymous? All of your emails are on the same domain, and nobody else is using that domain. As soon as I see an email @jamesboehmersdomain, I know that it belongs to jamesboehmer.
- dinkleberg 6y agoYou buy some cheap domain for this purpose. Certain TLDs go for real cheap (~$2/year).
- thayne 6y agoWhat TLDs are those?
- Hamuko 6y agohttps://tld-list.com/ https://tld-list.com/ Sort by cheapest renewal. For example, you can register and renew a .feedback domain for $1.49 a year.
- stevewillows 6y agolike Hamuko said, there are domains like .party, etc that are cheap. However, some sites won't take them. My main junk account is a wildcard .party domain. It'll work with mosts sites, but the odd one won't take them. I ended up registering a .com that goes to the same inbox to get around these.
- nucleardog 6y agoI wouldn't tie my entire digital identity to whatever's cheapest if I could avoid it. In my case I use my CC TLD. I'm in a generally stable nation that follows the rule of law and the administrator of the CC TLD has all sorts of processes in place that I have access to as far as regaining control of the domain if it's inappropriately transferred, making appeals, etc. The extra $10 or so a year this costs is very much worth it to me as basically a form of insurance.
- jamesboehmer 6y agoYou're right, it's not 100% anonymous. But my name's not in the domain, and I use WhoisGuard with my registrar. It's reasonably effective, cheap, and a low effort way to deflect the bots and identify suspicious activity.
- koheripbal 6y agoThis could be more easily done by simply signing up for gmail with an address that doesn't contain your name.
- jamesboehmer 6y ago7786655's point was that the custom domain is not perfect anonymity because if someone knows who owns the domain, then they know the owner of every email. If someone discovers my pseudonymous gmail account, then the same problem exists. But perfect anonymity was never my goal.
- Liskni_si 6y agoAnother issue is that unless one also gets a new IP address for the mail server, it might be possible to associate the real domain with this "anonymous" one.