Matisyahu's Blog

The one thing I found limiting about iCloud custom domain support was the limit of three aliases per domain but I could never get my head around the idea of how to setup a subdomain so then the number of aliases can be 15 in total (3 aliases per domain/subdomain). There is a difference regarding the instructions Apple sends and what you enter. For example, below are the instructions but you remain @ with the subdomain.

TXT:
Type TXT
Host @
Value apple-domain=<redacted>

SPF:
Type TXT
Host @
Value “v=spf1 include:icloud.com ~all”

MX:
Type MX
Host @
Priority 10
Value mx01.mail.icloud.com.

MX:
Type MX
Host @
Priority 10
Value mx02.mail.icloud.com.

DKIM:
Type CNAME
Host sig1._domainkey.<insert subdomain here>
Value sig1.dkim.<insert domain/subdomain here>.at.icloudmailadmin.com.

I’ve got 21 aliases in total with some of those being consolidated and then eventually getting it down or below 15 in total – why have a separate one for utilities and insurance when inreality they’re all bills so they may as well be put under the same email as the utilities. Yeah, I know, I could use the ‘hide my email’ but sometimes you want an alias with professional name rather than giving out your main email address. I’m going to keep the domain setup and keep regularly testing it to see whether I have any problems with it because if everything keeps going well over the next 2-3 months I may end up getting an iPhone and passing my Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra to mum since she is wanting to have a phone with a larger screen – I’d sooner give it to her rather than trying to sell it online and only getting a fraction back of what I originally paid for it.

The good news keeps on coming with the icing on the cake being the release of uBlock Origin Lite for Safari (link) which at the moiment is pending approval but having run the recent beta/testflight versions it is up to the same filtering standards that I have come to expect from uBlock Origin Lite running on Chrome. I’ve been running it with a few websites that tend to be a bit crafty and can work around content blockers I’ve used in the past but uBlock Origin Lite does a good job stamping out those attempts to circumvent the content blocker. It’ll also be available for iOS as well – which is one of the things I miss from iOS is the fact that Apple doesn’t cripple Safari on iOS by not allowing extensions like how Google does with with Chrome (although that may change with the move to replace ChromeOS with Android given the number of businesses that use ChromeOS that also depend on extensions – the workplace where I work being just that).