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Sai Ramachandran
10 min readJul 5, 2020

If you have been on the Internet for more than a day, you have probably heard about Mailinator.

Mailinator, for the one dude at the back who has never heard of it, is a service that lets you use any, yes any, email id so long as it is @mailinator.com.

Of course, like I have written before, no good deed goes unpunished, so too with Mailinator.

  1. It became a victim of its own success — as more and more people have started using Mailinator, website owners have started blocking people from signing up with an @mailinator.com email address.
  2. Your information could leak. Like I showed in the other article, our friend P. Sai of Orlando, FL, likes to order burgers and has an 889 area code phone number.
  3. Finally, Mailinator is someone else’s property. They may be well meaning today but no one should put all their eggs in someone else’s basket. As the adage goes, if the product is free, YOU are the product.

Mailinator, for all its above problems, had a purpose and a role to play in the progression of the Internet to where it is today.

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Sai Ramachandran
Sai Ramachandran

Written by Sai Ramachandran

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