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Old 18 Jan 2017, 07:42 AM   #25
brong
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Originally Posted by jhollington View Post
Honestly, my recommendation right now to all of those folks who thought that they had a "lifetime" email address with FastMail is to go out and buy your own domain name, find somewhere to host it, and then go through the process of moving everything over to it. As much of a hassle as that may be, you'll at least know for sure it will be the last time you'll ever have to do that. This is the only way you can guarantee that your address will never change.
Assuming that the DNS system still keeps working the same way forever, and nothing comes out to replace it that's not compatible.

I do this, I have my own domain (a couple of them actually), but I'm not sure that in 50 years they will still work the same way that they do now. Nothing is forever, particularly in something as new as the internet with so much churn.

I can't even buy spare parts for the Ikea shelves I bought 4 years ago. There's a new model out, and they have different connectors.
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