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> One alternative is to have your own domain

Unfortunately, should that domain ever expire, it'll likely be picked up by a squatter and that's your identity gone.

You could set up auto-renewal. Good registrars also remind you when the domain is about to expire. In any case, using a custom domain is safer than relying on a single email provider.

Do registrars send you warnings when their algorithms detect that you've broken their terms of service? If not, it's equally as at risk as the article suggests Gmail is.

Example from 3 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31573854

Another one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30506581

Registrars can do anything under pressure from the (deep) state. As seen in kiwifrm case.

You can auto-renew the domain. Even better you can manually renew it for the max number of years allowed by the registry (10 years for a .com).

I would think it would be worse to renew for ten years as an individual. I'm not sure how I would even set a reminder for myself that I am confident would alert me appropriately in ten years

Renew it for 10 years, then set an annual reminder to renew it for 1 year to the reach maximum 10 years again. This way you have a 9 year grace period if you miss any given year.

Ah, that makes sense

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