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this post was submitted on 28 Jun 2024
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Low effort to make a new alias, versus no effort to make a new catch-all address.
When you own a domain name, you own it forever. You don't depend on the third party, they can't take it away from you.
Catch all email addresses are good for convenience, and limiting who can talk to you, but as you pointed out not for anonymity, if you need to be anonymous, you can't use an email alias service that you pay for either. You have to use tor, and disposable email addresses.
Plus you can automate your inbox, auto route some emails to another mailbox, auto purge males to this inbox, it's totally in your control.
It's all down to your threat model and convenience, personally for myself, being able to know that Xfinity has leaked my email address again, and I just block that Xfinity email address from getting any mail. That's great.
As far as random spam, it does happen occasionally, it's fairly rare
Really? You can lose your domain for various reasons, that is not impossible.
It's possible of course, but it's far more under your control than buying a service from a third party company who has no legal obligation to you