On Sun, Mar 26, 2017, at 13:03, Norbert Bollow wrote: > On 26 Mar 2017 00:20:17 -0000 > "John Levine" <jo...@taugh.com> wrote: > > > Of course. But the fraction of domains registered by natural people > > is quite low. And, of course, the claim that you need your own second > > level domain to communicate on the Internet is ridiculous. > > Depends on the time horizon. > > If I want to be able to give people information for being able to > contact me via the Internet, so that I can have a reasonable expectation > of being able to make sure that this will still work in 20 years > (provided I am then still alive and healthy enough to be able to use > computers), how would I do that without a second level domain of my own?
Not only that, but if you don't want to put up with whatever any particular provider feels like offering on any particular day. Yahoo! may have been a reasonable choice at one point, but given their complete inability to secure their service over the last few years, and their reaction to the exodus was simply to disable mail forwarding. Or maybe you went with a smaller provider like Fastmail.fm's free plans? Oops, those are going away, you've gotta pay. Now maybe their prices are reasonable (I think so, I'm writing this from my own domain hosted on Fastmail), but if their prices go up tomorrow by 10x, and I still want to maintain my contacts from the last 10 years, I can do so because my name comes with me. Personally, I think it's rather silly to not have a domain that you control, as it puts you in control instead of relying on what one particular vendor chooses to offer on any particular day; the risks are the same whether you are using a free product or a paid product. _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop
