Personally after losing my blog when Posterous shut down i decided i do not want to bother with 3rd party blog services anymore.
As long you can prove you are the rightful owner. Sometimes that's much easier said than done, especially to a particular burden of proof they might require to pull the domain away from someone actively using it.
Everything broke with our biggest client.
After a massive scramble it turned out our clients certificate had expired, in middle of the deploy.
So our system could no longer talk to them.
Folks underestimate how easily this can happen and how very painful the entire process can be: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3597025
I also get evicted if I don’t pay rent on time. Paying recurring fees so services remain available is part of being a functional person.
If 1+ billion internet users had their own domain names, we'd never hear the end of the
Never use your own domain for anything ever
horror stories.
Never
ohh wait https://killedbygoogle.com/
This feels like it probably doesn't belong on this site. We don't say Google "killed" Android (Nougat), it's just an old EOL version. I've not used Angular, so maybe there are some salient differences I'm not appreciating.
Google killed AngularJS.
Looks like it will get security patches through parts of next year.
Angular, the successor to AngularJS is still alive and kicking.
I've also set real-time health checks on my domain to run periodically (via a service similar to Pingdom) and I should receive SMS and email alerts whenever there's something wrong with it, like MX entries not found, or the domain's expiry being in less than two months.
> "If you get a new phone subscription with a different phone provider, the phone providers are required (in the EU at least) to allow you to keep your phone number"
This is true, but if you stop paying for your subscription, or you stop recharging your prepaid SIM card, you will lose that phone number. In essence it isn't any different than paying for your own domain name.
Although it must be said: even your own registered domain can be lost. Generally due to you not paying attention, but I believe it has also happened that a registrar fucked up and sold a customer's domain to someone else.
Maybe we need better regulation for this sort of thing. If you get a new phone subscription with a different phone provider, the phone providers are required (in the EU at least) to allow you to keep your phone number, because so many things are tied to it. The same is true for email addresses and websites. Breaking this can cause serious problems to people.