Sure it is not _mine_ ether. But it is more mine than a phone number ever will be.

Edit:// I tried to look it up, except trademark stuff (and even then its not easy) i dont see any reason a domain could be taken away from the renter while beeing paid for.

[1]https://www.namecheap.com/legal/domains/registration-agreeme...

Which makes sense, they dont have, for some reason, keep me as client if they dont want to.

So given a choice I'd rely on my email address more than "my" phone number.

Taking away a domain is a costly, long and usually failing process.

Sure i need to pay for both

I agree that i worded that badly tho

source please, including your registrar's TOS

Or even which someone linked below (to refute my claims)

https://www.namecheap.com/legal/domains/registration-agreeme...

They also have the "remove anytime thing" but they warn you and give you 30 days to move your domains. So if they decide to close my account, they dont take my domains.

The whole telephony system relies on people keeping the same phone number.

Individuals and families rely on it as a most basic necessity. Businesses invest vast sums of money promoting awareness of their phone number.

If telco providers went around taking people's phone numbers away without very good reason, there'd be uproar, and the telco system (and indeed, to some degree, the economy), would cease to work.

I never heard of anyone got his number taken when they paid the fee. I highly assume most companies never done that actually.

Edit:// Its not actually the point tho, it is just a (obviously not that well) argument for my point

In the US, you certainly can keep a phone number. You can take it from one telecom service provider to another. But you do indeed have to keep paying your bill to maintain this ability.