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Modern Mentor

461 GID Control Email Using Custom Domains and Catch-All Emails

Modern Mentor

Macmillan Holdings, LLC

Careers, Business, Management

4.3720 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2017

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Lots of sites want your email address. Keep them organized (and honest) by giving them each a unique address at a custom domain.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Stevea Robbins.

0:04.5

Welcome to the Get It Done Guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

0:10.2

Yes, it's true.

0:11.5

The surveillance state is here.

0:13.5

The government is watching you.

0:14.9

Marketers are watching you.

0:16.1

Google is profiling your email while Amazon uses your buying profile and your overheard Alexa

0:20.9

conversations to determine exactly what kind of underwear you most like to wear.

0:25.6

We'll never win the fight for privacy.

0:27.8

Their resources are way too good.

0:29.3

So your My Little Pony underwear will soon be auto-shared with the entire Facebook community.

0:34.1

Yay!

0:34.7

Your friends will know just what to buy you for your birthday.

0:38.1

But you know,

0:42.3

other than the real big companies who probably have decent security and only sometimes give your name to the NSA, everyone seems to be asking for your email address. But giving your

0:46.9

address away so freely can lead to inbox overload. And by the way, what if the vendor gets hacked?

0:51.6

Now the hackers have your email address. Welcome security

0:54.3

risks. Wouldn't it be great to sign up for sites using an email address, but without giving

1:00.3

up convenience and also without giving up security? I knew you'd agree. Alexa told me. You can do this

1:06.7

by getting your own domain and using a catch-all email address. Now, a catch-all email address is exactly what it sounds like.

1:14.6

It's designed to catch all of the emails that are sent to a particular domain.

1:18.5

So say you go to Namecheap.com and you register your own domain.

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