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Someone change my mind but I find hosting your email to be risky. I could lose my domain through social engineering or just by being in a coma and there is 0 grace period so if someone registers I lose everything.


Entrusting your email to a megacorp that has zero feedback mechanisms and just bans users whenever it feels like it is much riskier.


You're talking about gmail there are more providers than Google. How often does Fastmail just ban people whenever they feel like it?


If Fastmail bans you then you can just move somewhere else because you'll still own the domain.

Stories of people having domains unjustly taken from them are rare, especially on "traditional" registries like .com/.net/.org


you should archive your emails anyway, and gmail can be social engineered just the same right?

Most registrars can auto-renew so as long as your card stays valid you’re fine.


Why should I archive all my emails? Genuine question because I don't.


You've never heard of pre-paying for up to ten years?




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