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True, but that's not too bad. The real pain comes when your email address is no longer valid. You have to hunt down everyone you've ever communicated with to g

by KingMob 14y ago

True, but that's not too bad. The real pain comes when your email address is no longer valid. You have to hunt down everyone you've ever communicated with to give them a new one. A lot of older, and more casual, contacts will be unable to reach you.

DavidAdams 14y ago
Any geek who relies on a domain name that belongs to someone else for their give-out-to-people, permanent email address needs to have his or her membership card revoked. Even if it's a domain that's owned by Google. Get a domain name.
- ciupicri 14y ago
  Out of curiosity, what domain name should people choose, one based on their full name? If so, what happens when it has been already taken?
  - tomjen3 14y ago
    You take something else? Tomjen isn't my name, but it is close enough.
  - andyking 14y ago
    I have a really common name - it was taken in all permutations of domains for years. So I jumped on it when the .eu domain names came out, and I've happily used that for a long time now. See what you can find in a more "obscure" TLD.
- KingMob 14y ago
  I have several. I was talking about the 99.999% of the human race that doesn't frequent HN. If they buy a domain name with email when Google announces that GMail is sunsetting, it's already too late. Old/casual acquaintances, friends of friends, etc. will only have their gmail.com address.
  - fakeer 14y ago
    In a way that might be good. They would get in touch with all of those friends and relatives via 'analog' media like phone, a visit or a get-together :-) Jokes aside, that would be horrible. I've a domain with GApps but I think my chat is still stuck there. Any ideas how can I break free and still able to chat with my friends(Gmail, Fb and some Yahoo) and have chat transcripts somewhere. Anyone?
cma 14y ago
Gmail supports mail from your own domain through apps for business (which used to have a free tier) or through using gmail as a POP/IMAP/SMTP client.

by KingMob 14y ago

DavidAdams 14y ago

Any geek who relies on a domain name that belongs to someone else for their give-out-to-people, permanent email address needs to have his or her membership card revoked. Even if it's a domain that's owned by Google. Get a domain name.

ciupicri 14y ago
Out of curiosity, what domain name should people choose, one based on their full name? If so, what happens when it has been already taken?
- tomjen3 14y ago
  You take something else? Tomjen isn't my name, but it is close enough.
- andyking 14y ago
  I have a really common name - it was taken in all permutations of domains for years. So I jumped on it when the .eu domain names came out, and I've happily used that for a long time now. See what you can find in a more "obscure" TLD.
KingMob 14y ago
I have several. I was talking about the 99.999% of the human race that doesn't frequent HN. If they buy a domain name with email when Google announces that GMail is sunsetting, it's already too late. Old/casual acquaintances, friends of friends, etc. will only have their gmail.com address.
- fakeer 14y ago
  In a way that might be good. They would get in touch with all of those friends and relatives via 'analog' media like phone, a visit or a get-together :-) Jokes aside, that would be horrible. I've a domain with GApps but I think my chat is still stuck there. Any ideas how can I break free and still able to chat with my friends(Gmail, Fb and some Yahoo) and have chat transcripts somewhere. Anyone?

cma 14y ago

Gmail supports mail from your own domain through apps for business (which used to have a free tier) or through using gmail as a POP/IMAP/SMTP client.