[kingds]

but if you stop renting from the registrar then whoever rents the domain next gets access to your email. seems like a horrible solution to this problem. at least i can be reasonably confident that google will never recycle my email address and send all incoming mail to a rando.

[colordrops]

Being in control of your own destiny entails more risk.

[account42]

> at least i can be reasonably confident that google will never recycle my email address and send all incoming mail to a rando.

What do you base that confidence on? Short, meaningful names are valuable and there is no reason to believe that somewhere down the line they won't be recycling ones that aren't used anyway as premium accounts.