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Old 6 May 2016, 01:11 AM   #15
Tsunami
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Originally Posted by Jacinto View Post
Or register your own domain with a registrar that offers complementary E-Mail services (there are many). No matter what happens to the registrar, your E-Mail address is yours to do with as you like.

If you choose your registrar carefully, it shouldn't set you back more than ten or fifteen USD annually.

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Jacinto
If you have your own domain you can indeed retain the same email address for as long as you keep the domain, you can either change the forward-to email address if your mailbox vanishes, or you can host redirect your domain to another email server if your mailbox host goes down.

However, that way the outside world won't notice you changed email provider as your email address remains the same, but you will have lost all archived emails you had with that mail provider if the provider discontinues its services.
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