Best practice for whois email contact

[smakme7757]

Hi,

Is there any best practice for which email to use when you register a domain. Currently i have admin@jack-brennan.com as the WHOIS contact for jack-brennan.com.

I did this years ago and havn't really thought too much about it, but it does seems like a bad idea. If the domain goes down noone can contact me.

Is there any best practice for what email to use?

 

[XavierMace]

Generally anyone I want to contact me about a website being down knows how to contact me when the website is down. I have zero interest in giving the entire internet an actual email address to contact me by.

In addition, domains don't "go down" unless their registration expires in which case the WhoIs info gets updated anyways.

 

[PliotronX]

This would only be an issue with an on-premise e-mail server. If using cloud e-mail which has better reliability and availability, I would not be too concerned about using that admin address. If you wish to use your preferred e-mail without exposing it to the internet to see, try transferring your domain(s) to Namesilo. They offer registrant privacy for free which is surprising. My domains are with Godaddy and am itching to transfer as soon as the 60 days probational transfer lock ends to Namesilo because Godaddy charges 70% of what a domain registration would be just to keep info private and they use domains by proxy which does not have all that good of a reputation...

 

[smakme7757]

This would only be an issue with an on-premise e-mail server. If using cloud e-mail which has better reliability and availability, I would not be too concerned about using that admin address. If you wish to use your preferred e-mail without exposing it to the internet to see, try transferring your domain(s) to Namesilo. They offer registrant privacy for free which is surprising. My domains are with Godaddy and am itching to transfer as soon as the 60 days probational transfer lock ends to Namesilo because Godaddy charges 70% of what a domain registration would be just to keep info private and they use domains by proxy which does not have all that good of a reputation...

That does sound interesting. I'm going to check out Namesilo.

Thanks for that.

 

[XavierMace]

This would only be an issue with an on-premise e-mail server. If using cloud e-mail which has better reliability and availability, I would not be too concerned about using that admin address.

Onsite vs cloud makes zero difference in this case. The only way the domain will be "down" (in regards to email) is if somebody screws up the MX record in which case it doesn't matter if the email is onsite or cloud, if it's using the domain it's busted.

 

[Red Squirrel]

What I did is I have a dns@mydomain.ca that I use for all my domains. EXCEPT the mydomain.ca one, I use dns@mydomain.com. The idea is if there is some kind of issue with my registrar that affects one domain then the email will work.

You also want to use a valid email here because if ever you want to do a transfer or renewal or anything like that it will send a confirmation to change it. So don't let a domain expire if it's used as an email contact for other domains!

 

[PliotronX]

Onsite vs cloud makes zero difference in this case. The only way the domain will be "down" (in regards to email) is if somebody screws up the MX record in which case it doesn't matter if the email is onsite or cloud, if it's using the domain it's busted.

The domain is not likely to ever change but the status of mail delivery can and will based on the availability of the mail host (and mail firewall if implemented) receiving and delivering the mail...