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Exactly this. I'm lucky though in that I signed up when it was Google Apps for Domains (and free). I've been using it for years without paying (having been gran
by pyre 9y ago
Exactly this. I'm lucky though in that I signed up when it was Google Apps for Domains (and free). I've been using it for years without paying (having been grandfathered in). If I ever decide that I don't want to be on Google anymore, I can take my domain and move to (e.g.) FastMail without having to go through the pain of shifting everything over. I don't have to:
* spam everyone I know to use a new email address.
* go through authorship information in any READMEs out there for projects I may contribute to.
* deal with an invalid email address embedded in public commits (ala Github).
* deal with possibly important, time-sensitive emails ending up in a blackhole.
* updating email information for online accounts. Especially for sites that use a combo of email address/password rather than login/password.
* etc...
I only have to pay ~$12/year (or less if I buy years in bulk) to keep the domain, and I also get the benefit of being able to grant emails on the domain to other people too.
- pg_is_a_butt 9y agoi have many domains grandfathered in, and last i checked, if i created a new account for someone on those accounts, the new accounts would not be grandfathered in, and i'd have to pay.
- Freak_NL 9y agoSame here. Having my own domain at least decreases the risk of ever losing access to my email address. A lot of developers seem to do this. It's a shame that this is not something the average person can do easily. Email addresses are by design linked to specific domains.