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The problem with several of these email subscriptions is that they will reissue your email address to another if you leave them, with all the risks that entails
by vaagen 4y ago
The problem with several of these email subscriptions is that they will reissue your email address to another if you leave them, with all the risks that entails. The answer is to buy and use your own domain or get someone else to do it.
- texaslonghorn5 4y agoThis is a good idea but in practice it just shifts the problem onto the domain registrar. Maybe/hopefully they are friendlier than email provider but if you do Gmail vs Google Domains, what's the difference?
- account42 4y ago> if you do Gmail vs Google Domains, what's the difference? Google Domains has (at least in theory) the option to transfer the domain to another registrar. Gmail does not let you transfer the email to annother mail provider (because that would be impossible).
- remram 4y agoThis seems backwards. Most email providers won't reissue your login, while domain registrars will definitely resell your domain.
- brewdad 4y agoThey may not reissue it immediately but I am not aware of any mainstream email provider that promises to never reuse an identity.
- zinekeller 4y ago> I am not aware of any mainstream email provider that promises to never reuse an identity. Google: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/56256 https://support.google.com/mail/answer/56256 In contrast, Microsoft only waits a year before recycling email addresses.
- account42 4y agoThat only states that you currently can't get past names using the normal signup pocess. It makes no promises about the future and does not guarantee that there is no separate VIP signup process that has fewer restrictions.
- db_admin 4y agoBoth an email-address and a domain name have a use-after-free risk. Doubly so if an expired domain issued email-addresses to users