[governance] importance of having your own domain name

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

You know, most of these free or cheap services - besides the big ones like google, hotmail etc - are run by small hole in the wall outfits, that crop up and die out on a fairly frequent basis. And most such startups aren't doing email these days, they've shifted to social media.

If you want something that is extremely cheap AND has a cast iron guarantee of being around, it had better be a government provided service - except that comes with its very own can of worms (i am sure many people here remember what an internet / email service run by a government owned telco was like, from say 15 years back) 

The 3322 takedown was necessary in some lights given the huge amount of malware that 3322 hosted without any let or hindrance - but it was unfortunate. I wrote about this on circleid back when the incident took place, and it was covered by Brian Krebs in his krebs on security blog as well, presenting two or three different points of view on the situation.

--srs (iPad)

On 30-Jul-2013, at 15:44, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:

> Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh at hserus.net> wrote:
> 
>> If portability of email address is all the utility you see, there are
>> any number of free subdomain providers that let you point your MX
>> anywhere you please (eg: dynamic dns services)
> 
> What I'm saying is needed is something like what is provided by the
> free subdomain providers, yes, but with a much higher profile so that
> it's not just something of potential interest to a relatively small
> number of geeks, but something that you get for free as part of whatever
> package includes your first email address.
> 
> Also there should be some assurance that the free domains don't get
> arbitrarily removed from the Internet. In particular, as long as the
> person who is responsible for a particular subdomain does nothing wrong,
> there must be an assurance that the domain won't get taken down on the
> basis of whatever people who are in charge or other subdomains of the
> same 2LD might be doing. The takedown of 3322.org sets a very
> unfortunate precedent in that regard.
> 
> Greetings,
> Norbert
> 
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