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I'd stress the "get your own domain" part. This is a _requirement_, or you're going to be going through the same pain again in a few years. Also, make sure you
by kadoban 7y ago
I'd stress the "get your own domain" part. This is a _requirement_, or you're going to be going through the same pain again in a few years.
Also, make sure you take backups of your old emails every once in a while. Google Checkout should be able to provide those.
- colejohnson66 7y agoWhat’s the risk of losing your domain from a forgotten renewal?
- imhoguy 7y agoThere is always a risk of loosing an asset, that includes hijacking. However to reduce forgeting of renewal there is the recipe I have once read here on HN: Renew your doman for 10 years now, and then every next year do 1 year renewal. If you forget it then you still have 9 years of buffer.
- _-david-_ 7y agoI would assume most domain registrars send you reminder emails as your expiration gets closer.
- mrighele 7y agoSome registrars let you enable automatic renewal, so in that case the only risk is to keep paying for a domain that you forgot of.
- trav4225 7y agoHow is credit card expiration handled? Or do you suggest another payment method?
- mrighele 7y agoI think they sent me a notification about the expiring card once. Another alternative is using one that accept recurring payments through PayPal; that way you would have to handle card expiration only with Paypal.
- ashtonkem 7y agoIf a domain is important to you, you should have it set to autorenew.
- rietta 7y agoI have all my domains on autorenew, probably many I should have let lapse now, and some of which I have regretted letting go of.
- tracker1 7y agoI feel your pain.. I accidentally let my main blog domain go a long while ago when I decided to drop most of the domains I was holding. Beyond this, I've had a few pretty good ones over the years... right now, I've got about 30 of them, and just keep thinking I should let most of them go.
- jacobr1 7y agoI've used auto-renew ... but it turned out my biggest risk was actually the expiration data on my credit cards
- DelightOne 7y agoI loaded up credits at my registrar to last a couple years because of this.
- aGeekGoneMad 7y agoThat's we something like PayPal is nice, your cards can expire and be replaced without interruption to automatic payments. And like the email problem, you don't have to go around changing it every couple of years.
- littlestymaar 7y agoIf your domain name provider is serious, almost none: there's a transition period (a few weeks) between the expiration date of your domain and when somebody else can buy it again. So if you forget to renew it, your emails stop working and you'll renew it really quickly ;). Source: it happened to me last month (the provider being OVH).
- nucleardog 7y agoYou'd probably have to really work at it. Most registrars are going to send you multiple emails leading up to the expiration, when it expires, and after it expires reminding you it expired. You'd have to miss a lot of emails. And once it has expired, you have (depending on the TLD) over a month of grace period where it's not available for general registration where you can still renew it. You'd have to miss the fact that all of your services were offline for over a month.
- prox 7y agoI only work with a company who’s team I can actually call. i pay a bit more, but that direct access is great. It’s actually hard to lose a domain if you have a good registrar. There is 90 day quarantine period even if you cross the renewal treshold. You can also domain lock, which means you need to manually unlock a domain before moving.
- thayne 7y agogetting your own domain might be fine for tech-savvy people, but for the general population it isn't really an option.