What if protonmail, gmail or whatever email provider you are using goes belly-up? Are all your accounts doomed?

If so, what are some preventive measures? Adding backup emails to your registered accounts?

  • howrar@lemmy.ca
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    7 days ago

    This isn’t without its own problems. If you fail to renew your domain and someone else picks it up, they now have access to all your accounts. At least with a popular provider like Gmail, they don’t allow emails to be reused, and if they ever discontinue email services and drop the gmail.com domain, everyone will know about it and know that password reset requests should not be sent to these emails.

    • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com
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      5 days ago

      This is a terrible argument, IMO. Domains are almost always auto renew, and there are typically grace periods.