Being reachable has a price – and right now, you pay it with your privacy, your control, and your permanence. RELAY is a different way.
Your phone number. Your email address. Your WhatsApp, Signal or Telegram handle. Every new connection, every service, every organisation that needs to contact you gets a piece of your identity - and you have no control over what happens with it next.
You cannot take it back. You cannot update it everywhere at once. And you certainly cannot stop someone from sharing it further.
Being reachable has a price – and you pay it with your privacy.
This is not a new problem. But it has never had a structural solution - until now. Every existing approach asks you to trust more people with more of your details. RELAY asks you to share less, and stay more reachable.
JaneDoe.relay is your permanent communication identity. You can share it with anyone - colleagues, clients, strangers, services - without giving away your actual phone number, email or handle. RELAY delivers the message to you, on the messaging app you prefer, without the sender ever knowing which one that is.
Move to a new phone number? Your relay address stays the same. Switch from WhatsApp to Signal? Your relay address stays the same. Change jobs and lose your work email? Your relay address stays the same. Your identity travels with you - not with your device, your number, or your inbox.
Share your relay address freely - your actual number and email stay hidden.
One address for life, independent of device, provider or platform.
Messages arrive on whichever app you prefer, without the sender knowing which.
Control who can reach you, how, and when - from one place.
Different channels. Different details. Outdated, incomplete, and out of your control.
One address. All channels. Fully under your control. Always up-to-date. Always reachable.
Right now, if you change your phone number, you lose contact with people. If a messaging app shuts down, you lose your contacts. If you change jobs, you lose your work email - and with it, everyone who only knew you by that address.
But the deeper problem is what happens to your details once others hold them. Every organisation storing your phone number or email address is a potential target. The data leaves your control the moment you share it, and there is no way to take it back.
May 2026. The criminal hacking group ShinyHunters broke into Canvas - the learning platform used by 275 million students and teachers at nearly 9,000 institutions worldwide, including Harvard, Princeton and Duke - and stole names, email addresses, student IDs and billions of private messages. The hackers demanded a ransom to prevent publication. This was not an exception. It happens every week, at companies and institutions you trust with your details without a second thought: banks, insurers, hospitals, schools, shops. Once your data is out, it is out.
Every individual, every company, in every sector, will eventually communicate through identity rather than through phone numbers, email addresses and handles.
RELAY is the missing independent infrastructure layer that makes that transition possible.
Any organisation that chooses to support RELAY never needs your actual phone number or email. They reach you through your relay address. Your real details stay private. And because relay addresses carry no personal data, they are worthless to hackers - the economics of data theft simply do not apply.
This is not a privacy feature on top of an existing product. It is a different addressing model for digital communication - one that removes personal data from the equation entirely.
There is a better way. One address. Every channel. Your rules.
That is what RELAY makes possible. And it is already here.
Free forever for individuals. Yours for life, on every channel, fully under your control.
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