If you forget, or don't have money, or whatever reason else for not renewing the domain, you will lose access to many of your accounts more than likely.
I get the rationale, but I feel that this is bad advice.
A well-run, reputable domain registrar will give you plenty of warnings when a domain is coming up for renewal. And when the domain expires there is usually [1] a period afterwards when it can be retrieved before anyone else can buy it.
Set the domain to auto-renew, make sure the registrar has your payment details, set calendar reminders. Its not difficult.
The alternative is gmail or similar, where you can lose access to your email, and perhaps the root of your digital "identity", at the whim of some hair-trigger algorithm [2] and be left unable to even communicate with the provider to get it fixed.
So get a domain from a decent registrar. Pay several years in advance. Keep your payment and contact details up to date.
[1] based on my experience of Cloudflare and other registrars
[2] plenty of examples of this on HN and elsewhere
I completely disagree… the upsides of having a domain completely outweigh the downsides for me
Domains are cheap, $10 a year, and you can set up auto renew, or renew them for years in advance.
Most registrars also send you alerts (e.g. the registrar I use, Porkbun, sends alerts at 60, 30, 5 days before expiry)
Migrating to a new email service is a colossal task if you don’t use your own domain which you can just point at the new one, and if your email service decides to kick you out, you lose access to all the same accounts as if your domain expired.
My domain expiring is totally within my control. My email provider kicking me out is not.
Was just going to chime in with this. Goldeneye on n64 Xmas day, selection box and sticky controller. What I wouldn’t do to feel that innocent safety again.
I don’t know how accurate this is. I just loaded up Walmart and Targets sites and they load very quickly and navigating between pages is snappy as well. What’s your metric for performance?
From das wiki: During his two terms in office, he undertook reforms which eventually led to growth in GDP, reduction in public debt and inflation, and helping 20 million Brazilians escape poverty.
He is the most popular politician in Brazil and one of the most popular in the world. He didn’t get there by corruption.
Bolsonaro had a commodity boom and transferred wealth to the Brazilian rich. Fernando Henrique Cardoso also had a commodity boom.
Lula uses the commodity boom to enrich all population. A non radical international politic also helps. Bolsonaro fought with Chine, our main commercial partner
Nonsense, a complete fanfic. Growth in GDP in his first mandates was due to an historical commodities boom that surpassed his government disastrous policies and widespread corruption. Debt increased. He was imprisoned due to corruption.
Lula is extremely unpopular and barely got elected despite massive support from media and political establishment. You are in a leftist information bubble. Try asking randoms on the street what they think of Lula.
First: stopped the radical external politics of Bolsonaro. In the few weeks of his government China suspended import restrictions of Brazilian products.
Started a responsible fiscal policy, all ratings agencies improved the country grade.
