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There is a client-side solution, even if not the most elegant. I'm paying a domain, this way i have 100% control of my e-mail alias, even if my current provide
by carafizi 3y ago
There is a client-side solution, even if not the most elegant.
I'm paying a domain, this way i have 100% control of my e-mail alias, even if my current provider (google) goes south, i'm still able to host the mail on my own server to retrieve accounts, and maintain ownership or the alias
- rasengan 3y agoWhat if the domain expires?
- enioarda 3y agoLetting a domain expire is usually under your own control
- rasengan 3y agoWhat if you passed away and someone wants to access your old data by getting your old email domain Oo
- layer8 3y agoLike with everything else, one should make sure one’s heirs have all the relevant information.
- xoa 3y ago>What if you passed away and someone wants to access your old data by getting your old email domain Oo What exactly do you think happens to anything of yours after you die if you don't prep for it? With many organizations or property your heirs can use a death certificate or court order to get stuff, in other cases they may just be out of luck. You may even wish it to be so, do you actually want them to have access to your old data? All of it or only some? If you actually care then like anything you need to prep for that while you're still alive in any one of the numerous ways available. If you don't then tough shit, that's why there is constant reminders about setting up wills/trusts and keeping relatives/friends/colleagues in the loop as needed and so on and so forth.
- Biganon 3y agoYou can usually automate the renewal or buy for a long period. But mistakes can never be completely avoided. What if you accidentally transfer this domain to someone instead of another domain you sold them? What if you accidentally lose access to the registrar's website? What if.....
- ryanbrunner 3y agoI actually had this happen to me. My credit card was compromised, the domain (which was registered 10 years ago) was tied to an old e-mail I never use, so I never got payment failure alerts, and didn't notice it was expired until a few days after I stopped receiving e-mails and the domain had been bought by someone else. It's a huge pain to deal with, since it's 100% unrecoverable since there's no one to really appeal to and you're just forced to update your e-mail everywhere.
- ziml77 3y agoI had a similar issue where I didn't get the renewal failure emails. Fortunately no one else grabbed the domain, but there was a window of a week where someone could have! I still use my own domain for my email, but I can't help but feel like maybe it's not the best idea.
- arp242 3y agoMany (though not all) TLDs employ a "grace period", where the domain stops working but you have some time (usually 30 days) to renew it before it's really de-registered. This is to prevent exactly these types of scenarios.
- Joker_vD 3y agoWhat if I want to change the domain? My org changed its domains twice in five years I've been there, and porting e.g. imports in all of the internal Golang porjects was not a funny experience.
- layer8 3y agoDon’t do that. Choose a domain name with no time-limited semantics attached to it.
- direwolf20 3y agoThere's no such thing.
- layer8 3y agoDomains are generally set up to auto-renew (and you as the owner have control over that). Expiry is not an issue.