• Frank Ring@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Fun facts, I own a domain name and created a new email address.

    I’m currently considering making it my main email address.

    Also a good reason to leave outlook and gmail.

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      6 months ago

      Note that if you let your domain lapse and someone else registers it afterwards, that person will also gain control over your e-mail address (and likely all accounts associated with it, if they are not secured with an additional factor of authentication / recovery).

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        6 months ago

        Wow, are you serious? That’s crazy!

        What if I delete everything if I ever let my domain lapse?

        In the same time, it is the name of my company, I assume I will keep it forever until I die.

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          As long as you’re very thorough about removing any linked connection from your expired e-mail, you should be OK. That includes all accounts that you registered using this e-mail, as well as all e-mail contacts that you’ve built up using that account.

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            6 months ago

            Yeah, i get it.

            An email address is a very important tool that is the root of anything online.

            If you start using an email address, everything else becomes attached to it.

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      Last I tried that was over 20 years ago, and I was getting bombed with 13,000 spam emails an hour.

      Though I’d imagine privately-hosted spam filtering has gotten much better since then.