I’m in the process of deGoogling and also shoring up my email privacy, which means I’m hyper aware of mistakes I make, hence the stupid question:
I was testing something with Proton Mail and misspelled the domain—swapped the “r” with one of the neighboring letters.
I didn’t get an email bounceback, which is fine, because you don’t always get a bounceback anyway. But, should I be concerned that I might have just volunteered my email directly to some spam outfit?
The “wrong” domain is registered. I’m acutely aware that the misspelling being one letter away from “Proton” might be intentional to capture misspellings like the one I made. Also, the wrong domain seems to be associated with oopatet.com and trellian.com, which are blocked by ublock.
Is there anything I should do from a privacy perspective?
Or is this a non-issue?
Honestly, mostly a non issue, if the email didn’t contain any sensitive info.
Your email address isn’t secret, and will be scraped up by spammers sooner or later anyway. Security by obscurity is basically no security at all.
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I’m curious to know whether the “wrong” domain has a DNS MX record, and where that goes. I expect it does, because if it didn’t, you should have gotten an NDR.
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