Timeline for Can someone read my E-Mail if I lose ownership of my domain?
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| Jan 9, 2019 at 11:56 | answer | added | ChrisA | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 8, 2019 at 10:48 | comment | added | eckes | I don’t think it is very likely someone sends sensitive information out of the blue to a abandoned domain, but yes if you inspect that risk (like drunk exes sending your node pictures back to you ,) it’s a good idea to keep the domain registered. | |
| Jan 7, 2019 at 19:22 | answer | added | cybernard | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jan 5, 2019 at 22:06 | comment | added | Hagen von Eitzen | "Let's say my e-mail address is in the imprint of my website" - The imprint is editable. And apparently, you own another domain (that with the website)? | |
| Jan 5, 2019 at 22:00 | comment | added | Hagen von Eitzen | @R. Indeed, I even know people who still have aol addresses :) | |
| Jan 5, 2019 at 21:51 | answer | added | Harper - Reinstate Monica | timeline score: 14 | |
| Jan 5, 2019 at 13:37 | answer | added | i486 | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jan 5, 2019 at 13:33 | answer | added | Aloha | timeline score: 9 | |
| Jan 4, 2019 at 21:22 | answer | added | usr-local-ΕΨΗΕΛΩΝ | timeline score: 23 | |
| S Jan 4, 2019 at 11:18 | history | suggested | Mawg | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Change "lose access to" to the more appropriate "lose ownership of" - there are amny ways to lose acess whcih are not what teh OP describes in the question
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| Jan 3, 2019 at 23:15 | comment | added | R.. GitHub STOP HELPING ICE | @SkiddieHunter: Re: "Why hasn't e-mail been abolished and replaced by something newer and better that is, for example, based on security?" How do you expect to retain ownership of an identifier by which you can be reached without some sort of system equivalent to domain registration, in a way that's permanent across decades? Email addresses at domains registered 25+ years ago are still accessible. Do you honestly think you'll get that from anyone offering privately-controlled joke-of-a-service stuff intended to replace email? | |
| Jan 3, 2019 at 18:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSecurity/status/1080886685129424896 | ||
| Jan 3, 2019 at 16:34 | comment | added | reirab | @SkiddieHunter For sending credit card information e-mail was never an advisable choice. A website should use HTTP GET/POST over TLS for exchanging credit card information. And for a side business while you're a student, you really should probably use something more like PayPal where you never need to know or touch customers' credit card info at all. Even if you continue to own the domain, e-mail has never been a secure way to exchange information. It's generally unencrypted and viewable by anyone anywhere along the transmission path. Also, SMTP is about 37 years old, not over 50. :) | |
| Jan 3, 2019 at 15:07 | comment | added | reed | If your email address is tied to some accounts, then go there and change it. If it's used in some totally unimportant accounts that you might not even remember having, you can forget about it. You can send an email to all your contacts to warn them, or maybe only send a notice to the most important ones. As for random unknown people trying to contact you, well, who cares, technically it's not your problem. Anyway, in addition to what I said, I'd also suggest keeping the domain for a few more years. | |
| Jan 3, 2019 at 14:42 | comment | added | Mawg | Have you considered paying for a few more years and setting an "out of office" or "vacation auto-reply" saying that the domain will be dead after X years? That's what I did with my Gmail account when I divorced Google. It won't guarantee 100%, but how many people are likely to not contact you for 5 years, then suddenly do so after that? I guess it depends if this is a real life question or just academic. | |
| Jan 3, 2019 at 14:23 | comment | added | Skiddie Hunter | Let's say my e-mail address is in the imprint of my website. Everybody knows it but I don't know theirs. I don't want other people to get into trouble just because they didn't know they couldn't send me an email anymore. I also wanted to use my email address for online registrations. And if they now send me credit card information to this email address, I am always tied to the domain. Why hasn't e-mail been abolished and replaced by something newer and better that is, for example, based on security? E-Mail was invented over 50 years ago. (Rhetorical question) | |
| Jan 3, 2019 at 14:11 | comment | added | reed | Why can't you contact "them"? Who are they exactly? And what kind of "confidential" emails are they going to send you? Depending on these details, you might be able to mitigate the risks in some way (sending one or more alerts to some or all of your contacts, etc). Otherwise, the problem you bring up is impossible to solve completely in theory. | |
| Jan 3, 2019 at 12:52 | answer | added | Dennis Jaheruddin | timeline score: 55 | |
| Jan 3, 2019 at 5:54 | vote | accept | Skiddie Hunter | ||
| Jan 3, 2019 at 5:49 | comment | added | forest | $14 a year is nothing. Paying $140 over a period of 10 years is nothing (you won't be a student forever!). Forgo a cup of coffee during one day only once every three months and it'll pay for itself indefinitely. | |
| Jan 3, 2019 at 5:47 | comment | added | Skiddie Hunter | About $14. Still pretty much for a student. But thanks for your answer. I'll probably pay for it another 5 years and then I'm gonna let it expire. | |
| Jan 3, 2019 at 5:38 | comment | added | forest | How much is your domain costing you every year? | |
| Jan 3, 2019 at 5:32 | answer | added | forest | timeline score: 132 | |
| Jan 3, 2019 at 5:25 | history | edited | Skiddie Hunter | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 3, 2019 at 5:20 | history | asked | Skiddie Hunter | CC BY-SA 4.0 |