<story><title>Reasons to not use your own domain for email</title><url>https://www.bautista.dev/reasons-to-not-use-your-own-domain-for-email</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sschueller</author><text>I strongly disagree.&lt;p&gt;- Google has on multiple occasions terminated accounts for no reason with no recourse. You loose access you can&amp;#x27;t do anything. If you have your own domain you can at least set it up somewhere else. How many website would you need to update with your new email and how would you get thay extra factor mail?&lt;p&gt;- If I die I don&amp;#x27;t care if someone else reads my mail, I&amp;#x27;m dead. Also you can add a dead man&amp;#x27;s switch and you should provide your family with access to your passwords etc. in case something does happen.&lt;p&gt;- if you are worried about expiration, didn&amp;#x27;t one registrar just offer 100 year registration? Also the process is usually (for. com at least): domain expires, registrar removes DNS until you pay, usually 30 days, then the domain goes to retention where you can pay the +250 fee to get it back which I believe is another 60 days or something that you have to pay and get it back. I have had customers that I would remind over and over only to have them fall into retention and then complain about the fee but they got their domain back.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tjpnz</author><text>As evidenced here the impact of account terminations can have a profound impact on a persons life. Email providers like Google should be treated as utilities and regulated as such, they should be legally obligated to communicate with their users, ideally working towards a resolution. Until then you really should be treating said accounts in the same way you would a hotel rental phone.</text></comment>
<story><title>Reasons to not use your own domain for email</title><url>https://www.bautista.dev/reasons-to-not-use-your-own-domain-for-email</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sschueller</author><text>I strongly disagree.&lt;p&gt;- Google has on multiple occasions terminated accounts for no reason with no recourse. You loose access you can&amp;#x27;t do anything. If you have your own domain you can at least set it up somewhere else. How many website would you need to update with your new email and how would you get thay extra factor mail?&lt;p&gt;- If I die I don&amp;#x27;t care if someone else reads my mail, I&amp;#x27;m dead. Also you can add a dead man&amp;#x27;s switch and you should provide your family with access to your passwords etc. in case something does happen.&lt;p&gt;- if you are worried about expiration, didn&amp;#x27;t one registrar just offer 100 year registration? Also the process is usually (for. com at least): domain expires, registrar removes DNS until you pay, usually 30 days, then the domain goes to retention where you can pay the +250 fee to get it back which I believe is another 60 days or something that you have to pay and get it back. I have had customers that I would remind over and over only to have them fall into retention and then complain about the fee but they got their domain back.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sshine</author><text>The day I worried &amp;quot;What if Google just shuts down my email account with no recourse?&amp;quot; is the day I started migrating my authentication to my own domain email address. Choosing a registrar with proper security in place, this is probably the safest while you are alive.</text></comment>