[aniketsaurav18]

I second this. If you are using @gmail or @yahoo, you dont own anything; rather, you are renting an address on their server. @gmail.com is Google's property. But if you own your domain, it's your property. You can change the Domain registrars just like you port your phone number.

[pllbnk]

You could have said the same about using a GSM provider's SIM card back in the day. Yet, now we can easily switch the provider without changing the number.

[mlhpdx]

Not the same thing at all. An email address is a hierarchical construct with different ownership at each level, and a phone number isn’t.

[pllbnk]

It used to be before government regulations were put in place. I don't care much about the technical feasibility currently. When and if a law is put in place it becomes up to the developers to create a solution.

[mlhpdx]

Ownership isn’t a problem developers can solve, but lawyers will line up for it. After 50 or whatever years there is a lot of calcification around email.