mmhmm, and what happens to their email at the old address?

You tell people to use the new email. I don't understand this, if you make a thing the root of your identity then you have get everyone to migrate when it changes. There is no solution to this problem that doesn't involve implementing USPS mail forwarding for email.

There is a solution to the problem: price caps.

> You tell people to use the new email.

Easier said than done. For most people that probably means updating literally hundreds of sites (and better hope all of those have a way to change your email). Not to mention telling your contacts to use the new email, and hope they don't forget and send an important email to the wrong domain.

I am not exactly happy about the price increase, but if the domain is this important, is $15/yr really that bad?

Like I'm flabbergasted at people complaining about the burdens of doing something nobody would do, because the cost isn't worth the effort.

Now if they raised prices to $100+/yr I could imagine, but $15/yr is negligible costs.

The point is that they could raise the prices to $100+/yr if they damn well pleased. That's why the outrage, not over the 15 dollars