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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
That’s a good idea because then you can always change your mail provider without changing your email address on all websites
I’m not sure if I understand properly what you mean.
Is it a good idea or a bad idea?
I think the person was saying it’s a good idea to have your own domain because with a gmail.com address, you’re stuck with Gmail. With your own, you can change providers any time by setting up your addresses at the new provider and updating the mail records to point to them. Boom! New email provider, same addresses.
With your own domain you also can also make up email addresses on the fly anytime.
