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Re:Dead googlecode URLs on GitHub by JeremyBanks on Friday July 22, 2016 @06:39PM (#12147285)
Hotmail/Outlook used to(?) do this as well.

I had an account expire ~10 years ago. Somebody else registered the address and used it for several years, then eventually let it expire as well. Last year, I re-registered it, and used it to recover access to an account I created a long long time ago.

Re:Dead googlecode URLs on GitHub by homero on Friday July 22, 2016 @11:12PM (#12148169)
I'm still trying to recover my neopets account from 15 years ago, I used a bad birthdate