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> Email on your own domain. You can still use Google (or any other service) for this, but having your own domain means you're not dead in the water if your prov

> Email on your own domain. You can still use Google (or any other service) for this, but having your own domain means you're not dead in the water if your provider decides they don't like you. And if you give up your domain then someone just have to buy it and use the "forgot password" option :D

jaywalk 5y ago
You do have some additional management overhead, but a good registrar will bug you well before your domain expires if they aren't able to auto renew it for some reason. You also have a 30 day grace period after it expires before someone else grabs it.
- ziml77 5y ago
  They need to bug me by mail and by phone. Last time my payment couldn't be processed, I lost email for a week (didn't notice because I was reading email in an email client that pulls from both my custom domain and gmail). Once I brought the domain back up, many of the missed emails did come through including ones from the registrar saying that I needed to fix my payment info...
  - jaywalk 5y ago
    I had a similar scenario happen, where my domain expired without me realizing and my incoming emails slowed down as DNS caches expired. I finally realized it after a few days when I hadn't received an email that I was expecting, and once I renewed the domain I got a flood of emails that I had missed. After that, I was much more careful about where my domain registration emails go.
    - ziml77 5y ago
      I only noticed because I was expecting a specific email too. I should have realized sooner but I was blaming not getting account confirmation emails from a service I was trying to register for on the service itself. I remember that I was even trying multiple browsers and devices thinking that the client was failing to properly send something to the server!
  - lallysingh 5y ago
    .. Can you put a reminder in your calendar? So you re-up before expiration? Leave the automated charge for a backup, but do the important stuff yourself.
    - ziml77 5y ago
      I shouldn't have said they "need" to. More like it would be very much appreciated if they did. I've made sure to keep track of that now, but I think they could do a little more to help people, who haven't learned from making the mistake yet, avoid losing their domains. Funny thing is that I had a domain with a different registrar about 9 years ago and I couldn't get them to stop mailing me expiration reminders. They kept coming well after I intentionally let the domain expire.

jaywalk 5y ago

You do have some additional management overhead, but a good registrar will bug you well before your domain expires if they aren't able to auto renew it for some reason. You also have a 30 day grace period after it expires before someone else grabs it.

ziml77 5y ago
They need to bug me by mail and by phone. Last time my payment couldn't be processed, I lost email for a week (didn't notice because I was reading email in an email client that pulls from both my custom domain and gmail). Once I brought the domain back up, many of the missed emails did come through including ones from the registrar saying that I needed to fix my payment info...
- jaywalk 5y ago
  I had a similar scenario happen, where my domain expired without me realizing and my incoming emails slowed down as DNS caches expired. I finally realized it after a few days when I hadn't received an email that I was expecting, and once I renewed the domain I got a flood of emails that I had missed. After that, I was much more careful about where my domain registration emails go.
  - ziml77 5y ago
    I only noticed because I was expecting a specific email too. I should have realized sooner but I was blaming not getting account confirmation emails from a service I was trying to register for on the service itself. I remember that I was even trying multiple browsers and devices thinking that the client was failing to properly send something to the server!
- lallysingh 5y ago
  .. Can you put a reminder in your calendar? So you re-up before expiration? Leave the automated charge for a backup, but do the important stuff yourself.
  - ziml77 5y ago
    I shouldn't have said they "need" to. More like it would be very much appreciated if they did. I've made sure to keep track of that now, but I think they could do a little more to help people, who haven't learned from making the mistake yet, avoid losing their domains. Funny thing is that I had a domain with a different registrar about 9 years ago and I couldn't get them to stop mailing me expiration reminders. They kept coming well after I intentionally let the domain expire.