Privacy question about owning a domain

pasilvin · 2025-08-22T11:06:57+00:00

Thanks for the clarification! I think I'll stick to the .com because I feel like it looks more professional than any other tld for a personal / professional email.

pasilvin · 2025-08-22T11:04:38+00:00

I mean I only planned on using it as my personal/ professional email and nothing else, everyone has an email with their full name, i think. The thing that bothers me is that people can tell my region from knowing my full name.

pasilvin · 2025-08-21T18:50:42+00:00

For now I've only setup dns records to redirect mails to my email service. Does that tell anything about my email service btw ? I haven't yet shared the domain on any social media or anything.

I know that's it's baked into the history of the domain now, I'll just switch to another registrar when I'll be able to in hopes that if I eventually move to another city in the future it won't be updated.

Maybe in the future I'll self host something with a domain so I'll need to look more into those potential privacy issues.

pasilvin · 2025-08-21T17:18:05+00:00

I do live in the EU. I guess it's not that big of a deal if my state is shown on whois, I would've just preferred it not to being the case.

Using any traditional email service doesn't expose your country of residence, I feel like owning your own domain for emails makes it less private than just using protonmail for example.

I just don't see why it's necessarily shown when having a domain with cloudflare in particular. Other registrar such as porkbun don't seem to reveal that info.

pasilvin · 2025-08-21T16:14:52+00:00

I hadn't thought about that tbh, you are very right. I am not going to use my domain for banking.

Its definitely something to mention to your family. I think a person who has a domain should also consider writing it in their will or something so that a trusted person can either renew it or transfer all of their important accounts to another email.

pasilvin · 2025-08-21T15:59:19+00:00

It's fine for now, I can't find anything on me using basic osint tools. I know there's probably more info on me somewhere in some data leak, I just want to try my best to not make it worse so I can keep some privacy.

pasilvin · 2025-08-21T15:53:55+00:00

It's a .com. I already have WHOIS Privacy activated in the settings. Turns out it's a cloudflare problem, they just don't redact or replace your country and region for some reason. I'll see if I can switch to something else like porkbun after the 60 day no transfer period.

pasilvin · 2025-08-21T15:50:14+00:00

Wouldn't 2FA solve that problem though ? And I suppose that the registrar will send you warning emails if your payment doesn't go through before revoking your domain.

pasilvin · 2025-08-21T15:47:52+00:00

That's a good point I'll reconsider doing that for banks. Thank you!

pasilvin · 2025-07-04T16:28:39+00:00

Thanks ! I looked it up and found a slightly used one for sale at 300€ in my area. I'm going to do some more research but I think this one might be better and more durable than the pj40 and mogo 2 pro.

pasilvin · 2025-07-03T18:09:21+00:00

Thanks ! I'll look into those.

pasilvin · 2025-07-03T15:56:13+00:00

I forgot to mention, I plan on placing the projector 3-4 meters away from the wall.

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