[al_borland]

> And what do you do when the DNS decides you don't deserve a domain name any more?

This may be my problem in the future. I bought a domain, set it up on Proton, and started moving my email there, slowly but surely. My mistake, it was a .io domain. Now the future of that TLD is uncertain. Maybe it will be fine, but if not, I don’t want to continue tying more to it, so I’ve been divesting.

I went looking for a decent .com and they are of course hard to come by. Several seem like they were bought 20 years ago, parked, and forgotten about… but who knows, they could be running a mail server and nothing more.

My dad has been running his own for about 20 years. Over the years he’s run into various issues. Mail not being delivered, black listed IPs he had to get cleared up, several host migrations. It’s hardly been set it and forget it. At least he has the option to take it with him when a host goes bad, but I wouldn’t expect the average user to go through all of that. Very few people treat email as a hobby.