After the Proton CEO twitter scandal, I’m thinking of getting a domain that I own. But problem is, all my email address would be @mydomainname.com instead of @protonmail which millions of people use. Isn’t that just linking all your account together. Even if you create a separate email address for every account, they all still identify to your domain and the surveillance corporations can link your accounts together to your identity. So I’m not sure about having own domain name…
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And its hard to even pick a name that sound good when you say it like Pro-ton-mail is easy to pronounce, I can’t think of some good domain name like that to choose.
Privacy: having your own domain is great, you can give every service you use a different email address. You have lots of privacy. It’s more work for them to correlate across accounts. If there’s a email leak, you just block that one address
Anonymity: none. Anybody who really wants to figure out who owns the email is not going to have a lot of work to do.
You can have your own domain, use it for things you don’t mind identifying yourself for. And then for disposable things you don’t want linked to your identity, you can use other email services
Buy two domains at least. One for the actual email and one for redirection email addresses with something like addy.io .
In the UK, open personal details can be resisted from whois listings under data protection, but you can use a mailbox or office address to make that a redirect.
I use a control domain to control all my other customer domains and I separate DNS, domain hosting, email, and websites so no-one has too much control. That was a painful lesson to learn.
Picking domain names is hard. Whatever you pick it will sound silly or it’s already been taken. Just make it easy to spell and short to reduce the pain of spelling it out, and these days LLM tools can help choose.
If you are concerned about privacy concerns with respect to having multiple addresses all under the same domain. My thought is that most scripts for handling any automation of email address exploitation likely treat each address separately until they can link two or more identities together. If you wrote some general logic to handle parsing millions of email addresses how would it know that [email protected] is also [email protected]. Sure a human could look and probably make the relation that yes those could be the same person if mydomain.com was something like myname.com but what would that rule or logic look like? How do we discern mydomain.com from myname.com from somerandomname.org in any automated fashion so that we can then say with some degree of certainty that all the addresses under that domain are the same person. At best I would expect you to have them all just linked to that domain/organization. You could do further logic to attempt to link domains to people but thats still going to be complicated. When it comes to security its all about gauging the threat and taking sufficient action to negate that threat.
I made a separate Gmail to forward to my main email inbox. While the corporations and stuff get
whatever@wasnteatingchips.com, anyone in person or over the phone getsbernadettelastname@gmail.com
