Tell HN: Transfer your Google domain to other registrar before it locks you out

Re:Tell HN: Transfer your Google domain to other registrar b... by tut-urut-utut on Thursday June 02, 2022 @11:55AM (#31596432)

Don't ever trust your business, hobby, important services to a company without a working customer support. Mistakes do happen, and when they happen, you need someone to react quickly.

Since I moved my custom domain mail hosting out of Google, I don't have to worry anymore. I finally put my Google password in a password manager, since I don't use it that often.

Nowadays, I would recommend using Google account only for a throwaway stuff, like setting up a new Android phone, E-Mail used for spam, etc, ... for anything real, thanks but no thanks.

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Re:Tell HN: Transfer your Google domain to other registrar b... by napsterbr on Thursday June 02, 2022 @12:01PM (#31596515)

I currently host my custom domain email at Google, and am thinking of switching for this very reason. Do you recommend any specific email providers with reliable customer service?

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Re:Tell HN: Transfer your Google domain to other registrar b... by aojdwhsd on Thursday June 02, 2022 @02:00PM (#31598345)

I've been a ProtonMail paid subscriber with a custom domain for several years. Very happy customer, wouldn't go anywhere else. I haven't needed to contact customer support often, but service was good the few times I did.

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Re:Tell HN: Transfer your Google domain to other registrar b... by tedivm on Thursday June 02, 2022 @12:29PM (#31596978)

Fastmail has been great since I've switched to them, and others seem to agree. I know a lot of people also like ProtonMail but I don't have much personal experience with them.

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Re:Tell HN: Transfer your Google domain to other registrar b... by tut-urut-utut on Friday June 03, 2022 @04:31AM (#31605719)

I went with https://mailfence.com a small Belgian provider called. I needed to contact their support only once, and they were prompt and helpful. The only shortcoming compared to Gmail is their web interface is a bit minimalistic, but fully functional and incredibly fast, also on mobile.

Other mentioned Fastmail, which is also fine as a provider, but I somehow trust EU / Belgian regulations more than Australian.

EDIT: Replied to the wrong post, I wanted to actually reply to the parent post.

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