One perk that someone told me about is that you can use your domain to get around not having a static IP (because the DNS will compensate).
If I were to get a Cloudflare domain name then what would be some other pros and cons?
One perk that someone told me about is that you can use your domain to get around not having a static IP (because the DNS will compensate).
If I were to get a Cloudflare domain name then what would be some other pros and cons?
This. I’ve done this since 2003 (when I got my first custom domain + email) and I’ve discovered several forums, services and companies that have either sold their databases or (most probably) got hacked and never made it public.
Pro-tip: If you are going to give out the address face to face, they might not trust you or not understand when you tell them that your email address is [email protected]. I even had a store blatantly refusing to type that into their system. So, I started using ROT-13 to encode the company/service name, and just telling them the address is [email protected]. Nobody has ever asked why my email address was so unpronounceable.
I usually get “oh, do you work for…”.
No, it’s just my spam filter.
“Why?”
“Because I have strict rules where if the sender and recipient don’t match, it gets deleted and I’ll never see it.”
And then there’s the ones that are like “check your spam folder”…
“I don’t have a spam folder, because every company has their own email address, so I either get it or I don’t, depending on YOUR system and whether it works properly”.
True or not, “technical jargon” doesn’t really get questioned after a certain point.