I want to do this too, but what’s your threat model around losing access to your domain name?
To maintain a Gmail account, you need to:
1. Do nothing
2. Don’t be unlucky
To maintain a domain name, you need to:
1. Keep a functioning credit card forever
2. Make sure the domain name is renewed forever
3. Take action if your registrar goes out of business
The odds of something going wrong with your domain name, while still low, seem higher. Are you banking on the fact that you can talk to a human at your registrar to resolve issues?
you can buy years on a domain up until 10 years, at any time. You check every 5 years, you will have 5 years of time to recover from any issue that crops up on your side
>I want to do this too, but what’s your threat model around losing access to your domain name?
I have no solution for this, other than choose a trustworthy registrar. It's the weak link. Perhaps it will be fixed in the future with some petname system
I’ve been thinking about this problem from the other side of the fence: what if I use the provider’s domain and the provider goes away? Not likely in the case of Gmail, but I use Proton Mail, and frankly don’t entirely trust them not to disappear overnight. Or ban me due to some automated AI decision I can’t appeal.
To maintain a Gmail account, you need to:
1. Do nothing
2. Don’t be unlucky
To maintain a domain name, you need to:
1. Keep a functioning credit card forever
2. Make sure the domain name is renewed forever
3. Take action if your registrar goes out of business
The odds of something going wrong with your domain name, while still low, seem higher. Are you banking on the fact that you can talk to a human at your registrar to resolve issues?