reliefcrew
a day ago
Sorry, your concern doesn't compile. You're worried about losing your domain and instead you've decided to worry about losing your address on someone else's domain?
Sounds to me like you're not fixing anything but just shuffling things around (probably in the wrong direction).
There's always the chance something can go wrong... either with your registrar or your email service provider. Personally, I'd just stick with a reputable registrar since it will also ease your concern w.r.t other things (e.g. web).
In addition, if your email service provider goes downhill, your registrar will be able to help you. The opposite does not hold true.
So, can you elaborate on why you think moving your email addresses will solve your problem? Any company can, after all, change policies or flake out; whether they do DNS or email doesn't really matter that much. But the fact remains that email relies on DNS, not vice versa.
Does this help or am I missing something?
supermatt
16 hours ago
> am I missing something?
I believe so? A domain can not get renewed for many reasons - such as the death of the registrant. The domain can then get reregistered and the email addresses effectively "hijacked", leading to impersonation of the original owners.
A reliable email provider with a policy of never recycling an email address would mean that scenario wont happen. Obviously they can change policy, but if that happens while I am able then obviously I can inform everyone to migrate to a new email then.
This is an attempt to protect against a legitimate security concern.
reliefcrew
an hour ago
> This is an attempt to protect against a legitimate security concern.
Yeah, I understand you're concerned. What I question is the legitimacy.
Why would your DNS registrar turn against you, but your email service provider's not turn on them?
user
17 hours ago