For many years, I've been using mydomain.com for DNS for many domain names I have registered. Their service gave me free DNS, the ability to set up whatever records I needed, including subdomains. They also gave email alias ability so I could define a catch all, and define an email address (or several) to forward email sent to a specific address. That included subdomains.
They are changing their system, and it will become effectively worthless for my purposes. They are pretty much dropping subdomain support, and their new concept of a "catch all" is to reject anything that has not been defined, and send it nowhere.
I make limited use of the true DNS records, don't have a mail server or dedicated IP address, and don't have a practical way of doing this with MX records. I have lots of email addresses that I make up on the fly, since I can easily disable them if they become spam targets, but that assumes there's a catch all for what I haven't explicitly defined or blocked. I also created subdomains for others, so they could have similar capabilities. For example, my last name is one of my domains. So [email protected] will get to me for the particular domain (unless I block it or send it elsewhere) and I can set up a similar subdomain for anybody else in my family.
I'd like an idea of what else is out there, preferably free but at a low cost otherwise, that will do what I'm doing now. Unless I move somewhere soon, I will end up with most of my email going into oblivion.
They are changing their system, and it will become effectively worthless for my purposes. They are pretty much dropping subdomain support, and their new concept of a "catch all" is to reject anything that has not been defined, and send it nowhere.
I make limited use of the true DNS records, don't have a mail server or dedicated IP address, and don't have a practical way of doing this with MX records. I have lots of email addresses that I make up on the fly, since I can easily disable them if they become spam targets, but that assumes there's a catch all for what I haven't explicitly defined or blocked. I also created subdomains for others, so they could have similar capabilities. For example, my last name is one of my domains. So [email protected] will get to me for the particular domain (unless I block it or send it elsewhere) and I can set up a similar subdomain for anybody else in my family.
I'd like an idea of what else is out there, preferably free but at a low cost otherwise, that will do what I'm doing now. Unless I move somewhere soon, I will end up with most of my email going into oblivion.
It's also hosted separately from my mission-critical email.
