Happy new year y’all,
I launched XMR.IST Monero alias service 6 months ago, with this service you can create human-readable alias addresses for your long wallet address. Try [email protected] address on your favorite wallet to see the magic 😉
With using NEWYEAR coupon code, you can get your alias address for free: https://xmr.ist/register
P.S. Coupon code applies 0.05 XMR discount, that means you can get 6+ characters long addresses for free. For shorter addresses (and to support my website ^^), you can pay with Monero.
I would be careful using this service. This service stores wallet addresses as DNS records and can potentially store many of them, making it a honeypot for hackers. Anyone who can gain access to the DNS records will be able to reroute transactions by changing the addresses of the aliases.
For people who already own a domain, you don’t need this service, since you can easily setup OpenAlias yourself by adding the necessary TXT records. That is all that this service does for you.
If possible, avoid third-party providers like this one and only use the original wallet.
Can anyone with experience in monero tell me if it’s a security risk to give away your wallet address
It generally isn’t. Except for if you happen to say that your public address is the same as the address of a wanted criminal group. To avoid that you could use a sub-address or better yet, another wallet (with a different key).
If you are being targeted, with a high risk profile, someone could try to link your activity on different sub-addresses with an EAE attack. That’s why it’s better to isolate activities with different wallets instead of just sub-addresses.
