Proton Mail
Proton Mail is an encrypted email service offering end-to-end encryption, protected by strong Swiss privacy laws. It was founded by scientists at the CERN with the goal of protecting the privacy of it's users. The servers are located in Switzerland and the data is end-to-end encrypted - therefore Proton Mail has no way of accessing your data. It’s free to start, ad-free, and designed to keep your communications private without surveillance, ads or tracking.
Pricing
The Proton Mail free plan includes 1 GB of free email storage. The Plus plan costs €4.99/month or €36/year (40% off) for 15 GB of storage. Proton Unlimited is a package that includes 500 GB plus all Proton services — Proton Mail, Drive, Calendar, VPN and Pass, for 12.99€/month or 119€/year.
Read more on the pricing page of the service.
Hosting
Proton Mail is hosted in multiple locations around Switzerland on hardware owned and operated by Proton.
| Domain name | Usage type | Lookup type | Hosting provider | |
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| mailsec.protonmail.ch | Core Service | Web |
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| mail.protonmail.ch | Core Service | Web |
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| account.proton.me | Authentication | Web |
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| account-api.proton.me | Authentication | Web |
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| _spf.protonmail.ch | SPF domain | Outgoing mail | Report | |
| smtp.protonmail.ch | SMTP server | Web |
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| proton.me | Representation | Web |
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