> They are probably talking about the DNS records. If you look up my domain, it will list my home address, but the server is not in my house.

You mean the WHOIS records?

If so, I'm not sure it's so easy to simply dismiss "traced back to an Internet service registered to her family's home in Chappaqua, New York" as referring to the WHOIS record. It sounds like they're looking at the IP address, in which case I guess it's technically possible that the actual mailserver isn't physically located at her home, but for the purposes of the article it'd be reasonable to say that she ran [part of] the service from her home.

I agree that it'd be preferable if they could explain what evidence they're actually basing this on, but it doesn't read to me like they're talking about the WHOIS.

I disagree. I think that statement makes far more sense if it means the WHOIS records than it does if they mean the physical server.

The key words are "registered to", which means nobody was able to trace the actual traffic to the home. Not that that would necessarily be easy, but in absence of that I think it's far more likely that she's not administering running mail servers from her home.

Domain Name: CLINTONEMAIL.COM

  Registrant Name: PERFECT PRIVACY, LLC
  Registrant Organization:
  Registrant Street: 12808 Gran Bay Parkway West
  Registrant City: Jacksonville
  Registrant State/Province: FL
  Registrant Postal Code: 32258
  Registrant Country: US
  Registrant Phone: +1.5707088780
  Registrant Phone Ext:
  Registrant Fax:
  Registrant Fax Ext:
  Registrant Email: [email protected]

MX

  10 clintonemail.com.inbound10.mxlogic.net.
  10 clintonemail.com.inbound10.mxlogicmx.net.

I'm sure they are. A dig on the current domain returns "clintonemail.com.inbound10.mxlogic.net." as one of the mail records, which has 4 A records, each which point to servers registered in Englewood, CO.

Note that MXLogic is a managed email service provided by McAfee.

MXLogic is a spam filtering system - I've used it with clients before. It will filter and then re-send emails to whatever system you choose. The email isn't "hosted" at MXLogic unless you tell it to archive email for you. Its typical config is to block spam/viruses and send along.

AP now claims the MX was Google and then changed to MXLogic.

Given that and what you say, the most likely scenario IMO is that she was getting too much spam and asked whoever was taking care of her IT to do something. They decided to front-end her email with MXLogic and it's still going to Google (but of course, we don't know for sure).

If so, the whole premise of the article (Some people use Google, but Clinton built her own server) is false.

Meanwhile, the AP thinks that Clinton's MX choices have to do with her feelings about China.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/b78ba433af3a45209668f745158d9...

In November 2012, without explanation, Clinton's private email account was reconfigured to use Google's servers as a backup in case her own personal email server failed, according to Internet records. That is significant because Clinton publicly supported Google's accusations in June 2011 that China's government had tried to break into the Google mail accounts of senior U.S. government officials. It was one of the first instances of a major American corporation openly accusing a foreign government of hacking.