10 year maintenance schedules are practically guaranteed to cause an outage.
If you have to perform a maintenance task once every 10 years, you will not remember to do it (reminder mechanisms are not really designed and tested for such long intervals).
It’s also extremely unlikely that all the business entities involved will still be in their current form. It’s possible that the new business will have lost the information reach out to you to remind you. You might have moved, changed email or phone numbers.
You might have died, your family depends on the domain, and they lose their email one day because the MX record expired.
The whole industry can change in just a few years; 10 year renewal seems like a bad idea to me.
I wouldn’t recommend renewing your domain every ten years, but I do always purchase my domains for ten years and subsequently renew every single year. That gives me a modicum of safety from certain life circumstances (e.g., there’s an HN commenter who lost access to his email due to a stint in prison).
If you have to perform a maintenance task once every 10 years, you will not remember to do it (reminder mechanisms are not really designed and tested for such long intervals).
It’s also extremely unlikely that all the business entities involved will still be in their current form. It’s possible that the new business will have lost the information reach out to you to remind you. You might have moved, changed email or phone numbers.
You might have died, your family depends on the domain, and they lose their email one day because the MX record expired.
The whole industry can change in just a few years; 10 year renewal seems like a bad idea to me.