Catch-all Whois Email Address: Good or Bad Idea?

[Ms Domainer]

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As we all know, the whois email address is a major vulnerable spot in the whois data base, particularly the email sign-in point.

In your opinion, what are some pros and cons of setting up a catch-all email address?

My idea: to set up a whois email address that is different from my sign-in user ID.

For example, the whois address would be [email protected], but the actual sign-in ID would be "secret," something like [email protected] (I wouldn't be using the sample sign-in ID--too obvious) .

Is this a good or bad idea?

Or would it be a better idea to bite the bullet and buy an email service that offers more than one sign-in addresses, but not the scary catch-all email?

Thoughts?

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[RJ]

It's not a bad idea to disguise your actual email is whois. There are domain hijackers out there and the first place they try to infiltrate is the domain owner's admin email account.

The same goal of masking your email can be accomplished by setting up a single forwarder instead of a catch-all, for instance just setup [email protected] that goes to [email protected]

If you do this watch out for spam filters, they will often classified forwards as a spam unless you pre-authorize them. Gmail based email services will let you add the forwarded address as a reply-to address, which helps with this.

 

[DU]

Con:

[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]

Will all get to you.

I don't do it but I think a specific domain using google app/gmail would be the best bet.

You can setup as say [email protected]. This can automatically be put it into a whois folder.

 

[Ms Domainer]

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Thanks, guys.

This helps.

I don't worry so much about getting spam--easy to delete with a click-- but I do worry about scammers spoofing email IDs on my domain name and getting my domain blacklisted.

That actually happened to me once (early days), and it was a mess getting the domain off that blacklist.

I'm going to look into Google's custom email and see if that's doable and affordable.

Thanks!

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---------- Post added at 04:37 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:07 PM ----------

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Oh, wow!

I have just discovered Google's freebie email app (for using a domain name I already own), and I have already set it up.

Totally cool!




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[Dave_Z]

Oh, wow!

I have just discovered Google's freebie email app (for using a domain name I already own), and I have already set it up.

Totally cool!




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Gosh, where have you been? I've been using Google Apps' Email for years, he he.

Oh well, at least you found that rather than pay up. IIRC they also have some kind of "backup" application for using their services, though I can't recall what that is.

 

[Ms Domainer]

Gosh, where have you been? I've been using Google Apps' Email for years, he he.

Oh well, at least you found that rather than pay up. IIRC they also have some kind of "backup" application for using their services, though I can't recall what that is.

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I was using that awful freebie email that Godaddy gives you with each domain name, so I never even considered that Google might have an app for that (heh).

I was on the Google Business App page when it occurred to me that there might be a free version--I'm glad I checked.

It wasn't too difficult to set up. Google gave good instructions for all those tricky little MX codes.

Better late than never.



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