[jamesboehmer]

I gave this some thought and decided it's actually worse with gmail. If google decides they don't like me, they can kill my email and I would lose access to pretty much everything.

But if my custom-domain email provider closes shop, I can at least take my domain with me.

You have a point though, I should just prepay for the next 10 years of my domain, and set myself a reminder to renew in 9 years :-)

[jsheard]

Renewing a .com for the maximum 10 years in advance is a bit of a trap, because to transfer the domain to another registrar you have to buy at least one additional year... which you can't do if you're already at the 10 year limit. If your registrar pulls a GoDaddy and you want to move away you might find yourself having to wait up to a year.

There might be similar caveats with other TLDs but I only have experience with .com

[kube-system]

Good point. I'll make sure to keep mine registered 9-years out from now on.

[Ayesh]

"pulls a GoDaddy"

I think we are at the point that a noun becomes a verb to say how good or bad (Godaddys case) something is!