[ale] [OT] email forwarding service recommendations

[Tim Watts]

Thanks for your input.  See below.

On Mon, 2017-02-20 at 16:06 +0000, Lightner, Jeffrey wrote:
> I can't answer about the forwarding service as the ones I'm aware of
> charge significantly more than $40/year.  However, I as curious what
> you meant by DNS hosting. 

I just mean providing access to the DNS records.  I'm using DynDNS for
that now.  I can set the MX record (and other entries).  I suspect my
ISP (Earthlink) would reject traffic if I point it at their mail
servers.
> 
> If you're running your own DNS servers you can point your MX record to
> any provider that allows you to do so.   That is to say you can
> control your own DNS even if you're using external mail hosting and/or
> web hosting and I highly recommend you do or at least do your own DNS
> registration.   
> 
> Here we do a fair number of acquisitions and have run across "hosting"
> providers that did the original domain registration and take the
> attitude they rather than the client own the domain.   Since they did
> the registration ICANN considers them the owners so you end up having
> to pay them to allow the registration transfer to your ownership OR
> sue them with the latter meaning you're going to be down for some
> time.  If you own the registration you can change which DNS servers
> you point at any time so that you can also change MX and web addresses
> without such hosting providers blocking you.
> 
RE registration ownership.  Perhaps you can clarify this for me.

Registry Registrant ID: DYNDNS422346
Registrant Name: Tim Watts
...
Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited 
Domain Status: clientUpdateProhibited 

So does this mean I'm not the actual owner?  With DynDNS, my
understanding is that this effectively binds me to the "lease" of DNS
record hosting I paid for.  That is, I could move it to say GoDaddy's
servers when the lease is up (or pay a penalty).  But the terms are
completely controlled by DynDNS -- they could if they wanted to say
"Nope, it's ours and you can never move it" but I don't think that's
their current policy.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Tim Watts
> Sent: Monday, February 20, 2017 10:25 AM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: [ale] [OT] email forwarding service recommendations
> 
> Anyone use an email forwarding service?  I'm looking for one in the $40/yr range (or less).  DuoCircle/DynDNS is nearly doubling their price so I'm saying Buhbye.  Plus their performance has been spotty.  This is for light volume personal use not a business thing.  Don't want to switch DNS hosting at this point.
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Ale mailing list
> Ale at ale.org
> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
> See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at
> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Ale mailing list
> Ale at ale.org
> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
> See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at
> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo