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Re:Email addresses are not good 'permanent' identifiers for ... by input_sh on Sunday December 31, 2023 @10:04AM (#38824500)
Or you decide to change the domain, but are too lazy to change the email address... everywhere, so you end up paying for 2-3 domains instead of one just for the email redirects to work.
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Re:Email addresses are not good 'permanent' identifiers for ... by dotancohen on Sunday December 31, 2023 @10:09AM (#38824529)
Or you have financial troubles and no credit card just as you need to renew...

A more permanent way to buy - not rent - domain names would solve many of these issues. And changing ownership of domains should be just as difficult as changing ownership of real estate, the only people benefiting from the current ease of changing domain ownership are speculators.

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Re:Email addresses are not good 'permanent' identifiers for ... by j45 on Sunday December 31, 2023 @10:43AM (#38824785)
There is at least one domain tld selling “lifetime” domains.

I’m not sure why icann wouldn’t let anyone pay for 10-50 years for a domain.

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Re:Email addresses are not good 'permanent' identifiers for ... by j45 on Monday January 01, 2024 @07:49PM (#38836828)
Domains can be decommissioned once no emails are coming across them, which can be reasonably tracked.

I had no idea or time to figure this out and luckily we weren’t the first to come across this :)

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