What if i forget to delete some old accounts associated with the google email address? Will someone be able to take control of them? And my data will be there forever too.
What method do you use to find the old accounts to delete? Unfortunately i delete all emails after receiving them.
Registrars do warn quite a bit but indeed you can add a yearly notification 1 week ahead in your calendar.
You are in quite deep trouble then because the registrar itself is relative cheap, e.g $10/year. It also does not seem to increase significantly. If you can’t afford that you probably should focus on basic necessities first. If you are serious about it though, just like with the yearly notification, set $1/month just for this.
I mean… you change it? Just like when you went from person@gmail.com to person@mydomain.tld . That process is a bit annoying but as you’ve done it once, it will be easier.
It’s not a light decision BUT it’s also not such a big deal. If I want to go back to person@gmail.com I can just do so any moment I want (well person-something@gmail.com to be precise). I will keep a 1 year grace period for the transition, start with the most critical accounts first, e.g government and banking then social media, then random accounts based on my history. It’s annoying but it’s a matter of hours over few weeks at most.
The only challenge is to be methodical and giving up on the idea that you’ll update 100% of the account. Getting 99% of the account that truly matter is enough IMHO.
PS: for actually sensitive data, and assuming you somehow didn’t manage to get the grace period YET still are smart enough to think ahead, multi-factor authentication will keep your accounts safe. Honestly I don’t think the overlap though between somebody who cares enough about that AND let’s domain expire is very big though.