Looking for a cheap and reputable inbox from a company with a decent privacy policy. Don’t mind paying, but it’s gotta be less than 30 USD a year; I do not need anything but the ability to send and receive emails for accounts and correspondence.

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    9 hours ago

    Sure, that’s a valid perspective too. Yes, if you use your own domain for email and fail to renew the domain for any reason, someone can take it over your email address too. One more reason not to use custom email domains.

    I just figure that if I have a choice between an email provider that will let me keep my email address for the rest of my life and never give it to someone else or one that will give my email away not very long after I stop paying, I’m going to go with the longer-term, more stable solution. Like you said, there are no guarantees in life and life is short, but why make things more risky and complicated for myself?

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      8 hours ago

      Did you find that kind of provider that will supply eternal prefixes? The provider would have to be some kind of non-profit, that can not be sold. And maybe in a jurisdiction that covers this use case. Best would be a prohibition on email or domain reassignment, because that would be respected for hundreds of years to come, even if the law was changed again after the prefix assignment. What a thought, thank you for making me think about all that.