$9.99/month to use a custom domain.

AOL email address

What’s wrong with AOL mail? It’s been fine for me as a free e-mail provider. Clean webmail interface, app passwords for IMAP and SMTP (Though Thunderbird can also do OAuth2, apparently. It doesn’t work for me.), 1TB of storage. You just have to opt-out of marketing e-mails. They WILL send them. A lot of them. I’d consider it better than Gmail.

At best people will learn something; at worst we’ll get a show.

You’ll just end up with r/anime_titties situation.

Bugs happen. Here’s an LG coffee maker uploading 1TB in 10 days: https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/it-pro-says-his-parents-keurig-smart-coffee-maker-sent-1tb-of-data-over-their-wi-fi-in-10-days-it-saturated-an-access-point-on-its-own-but-he-says-most-of-the-traffic-never-left-the-home-network

The ccTLDs of the EU member countries are a very good idea if you’re an EU citizen because they have built-in privacy for individuals (they don’t publish their info in WHOIS) and are also subject to GDPR.

Still overthinking, I found CZ NIC might be interesting for security, but definitely not privacy.
https://www.nic.cz/page/383/faq/

Protect your domain or contact from unsolicited changes. Block them at CZ.NIC Association and no change will be possible through the registrar. If you want to change anything first it will be necessary to unblock a domain or a contact with CZ.NIC. These blockings are confirmed by an electronic or certified signature. Nowadays it is possible to block or unblock a domain online in the Domain Browser (on www.domenovyprohlizec.cz) - this applies only for validated accounts mojeID

On that website, it also mentions possibility to use EU ID for that purpose, so I’d be fine. But it doesn’t allow hiding my address.
Indeed - “Why do you show my home address on your website? Can I disable it?”:

All personal information is automatically hidden, except for the name of the organization, the name of the individual and the postal address. It is also possible to hide the postal address information if the contact is registered to a natural person (the Organization field is not filled in) and at the same time is managed via the MOJEID service and the contact is validated.

But the requirement to validate is:

As part of improving our services, we have replaced the former validation process with a new one — linking the account with the National Point for Identification and Authentication (i.e. getting access to public administration services), which also includes identity verification.

Which is this thingy: https://portal.gov.cz/en

Finally, if trying to sign up there I get to a FAQ that states this for question if it can be used by foreigners:

Yes, you can if you have in the Czech Republic permanent or temporary residence, visa sticker, temporary international protection or granted international protection.

So it seems while I could get better security than with other registries, my home address would be made public.

I did try with Fennec from F-Droid, which was fine. I updated Nightly just now, and it does still connect.

Edit: Firefox Beta connects to 6/12 on https://emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/
Edit 2: Regular Firefox connects to 0/12

Edit 3: Latest update fixed this in nightly, I haven’t checked beta.

Newest release of Firefox Nightly on Android also still seems to connect.

Sorry, that seems to be a registrar, not a registry. What TLDs do you use? For example, Verisign operates .com, .net, .cc and .name.

Oh, hey! Just wanted to remind you that zombo.com has been purchased by someone else and turned into AI slop.

why not host your own

I’ll first have to research how, but at no point will I consider myself as reliable as some professional provider like Cloudflare.
On the other hand, Cloudflare is kind of becoming the internet with all the centralization. Imagine if Cloudflare and AWS completely went offline at the same time. The internet would be fairly quiet.

This is good EU related info.

Wasn’t meant to be. I didn’t mention that .eu is only available for citizens, residents and companies in a European Union Member State, Iceland, Liechtenstein or Norway: https://cdn.eurid.eu/assets/terms_and_conditions-2.pdf

And history shows that (a country) exiting the EU means losing the domain name: https://eurid.eu/en/news/update-on-brexit-related-domain-names/

OK, now I am even more interested. dig doesn’t return an A record:

$ dig glauca.digital a

; <<>> DiG 9.20.27 <<>> glauca.digital a
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 11516
;; flags: qr rd ra ad; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1232
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;glauca.digital.                        IN      A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
glauca.digital.         3600    IN      SOA     ns1.as207960.net. 2bd17d47fafc43aa9be298a1cdfbd0ee.dns.glauca.digital. 1791925047 86400 3600 86400 3600

Somehow, it does work in a browser. I tried different DNS servers as well (including NextDNS which I use in a browser), none returns an A record (or AAAA). So, naturally, I am curios what IP the browser uses. Since it clearly works, I tried ping just so that I could see the resulting IP, and figure out where it’s coming from.

$ ping glauca.digital
ping: glauca.digital: No address associated with hostname

Great. That makes absolutely no sense at all. Where is Firefox getting the information from?
So I went to about:networking DNS tab. The address field is empty. I am just typing this as I test. It’s just cache in my browser.

I guess that would answer on reliability question. At least their nameservers still resolve to IP.

What happens when you try?

Step 2: CNAME it to techaro.lol

Wouldn’t that just resolve to IP of techaro, thus providing a “wrong” TLS certificate?

I plan to perhaps, just maybe, I am not sure, to try self-hosting an email server. But I’ll need a good uptime.
Although I am really scared about security.

It’s either a phone or a radio/speaker. Sometimes a portable CD player with aux cable.