What type of email address is best for Whois records?

[markfromslo]

What is the opinion of folks here on the safest type of email address to use for the whois email addresses? Pop3 or gmail or hotmail or ....???

I know some people say that gmail (and the like) mail can be hacked into easier, but it would seem to me that the servers of smaller hosting companies where your pop3 email address is hosted could be even more vulnerable to attack.

And then there are the stories of gmail (and the like) accounts being closed for no apparent reason and no response from the company while someone tries and tries to get the account open again. But are these situations few and far between?

Opinions?

Horror stories?

 

[cache]

I think yahoo email is good.

 

[IAmAllanShore]

My vote has always been to use an email address that is hosted with your registrar - I feel like it gives them less room to "pass-the-buck" as to problems, and they have more of a dog in the fight if problems do arise.
-Allan

 

[cdboard]

My vote has always been to use an email address that is hosted with your registrar - I feel like it gives them less room to "pass-the-buck" as to problems, and they have more of a dog in the fight if problems do arise.
-Allan

nice angle.


I have a couple "email domains", with email forwarding set up at the registrar.
I have the email forwarded to a normal email account. the whois doesn't show the ultimate destination of the the emails.

 

[bluepas]

Be careful when using free web based email, as your account could expire and someone else could take it and use it to their advantage, as in stealing domains, recovering passwords etc.. .. you know what I'm sayin..

 

[RegFee]

I use my DNOA.net address, but after reading this, I may reconsider.

 

[Kate]

Never use free E-mail. You may never receive important correspondance, including from your registrar.
The big problem is that anti-spam software will eliminate legitimate mail from time to time.
A while ago I had a problem with a foreign ext domain which I could not transfer because the authorization key never got through. Admin contact was a free E-mail address with seems to treat E-mail from registry as spam.
E-mail is not as reliable as it once was.

The best is to use a mail with a domain name you own and control.

 

[VirtualT]

I use my own domain forwarded to a gmail account, so if gmail account goes belly up I can always redirect the domain to somewhere else.

Anyway, with epp codes this is not as important as it used to be, a hijacker needs to get control of your account to get the epp code rather than just take control of the whois email.

 

[B33R]

I use my DNOA.net address - included with DNOA registration - it uses the Google Apps email service.

I have all new mail in the inbox automatically forwarded to another address address. I just checked my DNOA email account and found 105 spam emails in the spam folder from the past month. What's really great.... not a single spam email got through to my other email account.

I wouldn't recommend or use anything else. That's just for the whois records though, I have another email address for the registrars to use. That way the spam is kept away from any important registrar emails.

 

[DKennedy]

As far as ease of use and convenience go, Gmail seems to work well. It has a spam box that catches that stuff so you can check for missing emails. I particularly like the search features.

As far as security goes, not my area of expertise.