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If you don't own that domain that your email goes to, you don't own the email address. Any number of things could happen to cause you to lose access to that em
by jayofdoom 6y ago
If you don't own that domain that your email goes to, you don't own the email address.
Any number of things could happen to cause you to lose access to that email address:
- the company who owns that domain is sold
- the domain is sold during bankruptcy proceedings after the company goes under
- the company that owns that domain decided to get out of the email business
- the company has a vested interest in migrating you to a new domain (as is here)
I'm surprised at the number of people – even in tech - who are willing to use an email account on a domain they don't have any control over.
- jayofdoom 6y agoFormatting If you don't own that domain that your email goes to, you don't own the email address. Any number of things could happen to cause you to lose access to that email address: - the company who owns that domain is sold - the domain is sold during bankruptcy proceedings after the company goes under - the company that owns that domain decided to get out of the email business - the company has a vested interest in migrating you to a new domain (as is here) I'm surprised at the number of people – even in tech - who are willing to use an email account on a domain they don't have any control over.
- BenjiWiebe 6y agoIt's incredibly easy to move domains between registrars. I've moved mine 3, maybe 4 times in 10 years.
- nateroling 6y agoI bounced around a few custom email addresses and finally ended up on gmail. It's easy to tell people (everyone knows gmail) and if gmail closes shop, I'll have approximately a zillion blog posts to look at for migrating to something else...
- kadoban 6y agoMigrating your existing messages isn't typically the hard part. Though you should try to keep some backups in case they disappear (or in the case of gmail, lock you out). The hard part is years of updating the rest of the world to your new address.
- Can_Not 6y agoIf gmail closes shop, we're going to have an enormous cyber refugee crises.