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?

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    1 month ago

    Register your own domain and use that. Then if your email provider dies then you can take your domain elsewhere.

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      1 month ago

      How screwed would one be if the domain they bought was a ccTLD and that country ceased to exist?

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        A little but not completely. There are defunct ccTLDs that still exist and can be registered, but .io currently doesn’t have a clear future. I suspect that if a ccTLD is eliminated completely then there would be advance notice for you to start updating all your accounts to a new domain. So it would be annoying but not screwed