Poll: Do you use a gmail.com address for your primary personal email?

Re:Poll: Do you use a gmail.com address for your primary per... by sirn on Friday April 12, 2013 @05:52AM (#5537495)

No. Using email with your own domain is very important, especially if you use it for contacting a real person: it unties your email address from a provider. The biggest benefit is that you could switch provider very easily without ever changing your email.

Once you've done so, it no longer matters which email service you are using. If the service ever decided to shut down or shut you off, you can just switch to another service without ever worrying about losing contact.

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Re:Poll: Do you use a gmail.com address for your primary per... by stelian on Friday April 12, 2013 @06:48AM (#5537722)

It goes the same for websites. I used to have my blog on a tumblr subdomain until I wanted to move it to my own domain and hosting. You just can't do a 301 on a tumblr post.

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Re:Poll: Do you use a gmail.com address for your primary per... by addandsubtract on Friday April 12, 2013 @09:55AM (#5538463)

What if you lose your domain?

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Re:Poll: Do you use a gmail.com address for your primary per... by sirn on Friday April 12, 2013 @11:23AM (#5538980)

That's another thing to consider, but depends on the case: if the domain is left expired, there's 45 days after expiration to renew and another 30 days Redemption Grace Period before it's actually deleted. If the domain is "hijacked" (unauthorized transfer), then the registrar is in violation of ICANN policy[1]. If the registrar decided to shut down for some reason, you can still always move your domain to another registrar.

[1]: https://www.icann.org/en/help/dispute-resolution#unauthorize...

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