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I find it somewhat odd (or disturbing?) that they spent months telling us this wouldn't be an option; then a couple months telling us it would be an option but without custom domain email; then now, just weeks before the former June 1 deadline, custom domain email is an option too? So the option is available to those who were waiting until the last minute to do anything about it -- which is probably quite a lot of pe…
I transitioned my family domain name to a small nonprofit that I created to do donations. If you have such an entity, it's an easy way to opt out of this whole problem. I realize this doesn't apply to most people, but I'm just putting it here as an alternative.
> I transitioned my family domain name to a small nonprofit that I created to do donations. If you have such an entity, it's an easy way to opt out of this whole problem. Unless your family has a foundation that's planning to give grants, this sounds like an abuse of Google's goodwill towards nonprofits.
If it's a 501-c-3, "sending donations to whatever my family wants to" may also not be valid, and may be considered a tax dodge.
(I am not a lawyer).
I'm seeing that option in my account admin page now too. I'm going to confirm mine is for personal use and see how it goes.
Quick and painless. I don't notice any immediate difference, but I only use the core features really. Clicked the button and it came back with the following text and that was it: >You have chosen to continue using the Free Legacy Edition of G Suite for personal use. >If you change your mind and want access to premium features, you can take advantage of a special discount by upgrading your subscription in the Google A…
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Google accounts can be restored for at least 30 days after deletion. Should be quite easy. No yelling necessary.
A, the contiguous unit is 1 month , not 1 day . That makes things a lot less stressful. Good to know.
I switched yesterday to the paid Workspace account. It was weird needing to come up with a company name to do it. I'm glad Google offers this option now for people who've used the legacy GSUite in order to be able to have a custom domain name for email. It looks like I may be able to undo this switch: > If you transitioned to Google Workspace after January 19, 2022 and used G Suite legacy free edition for personal us…
1. Go to admin.google.com logged in as your domain admin 2. Click the question mark in a circle, at the top right 3. Click buttons named as seen in this screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/VxluEzc 4. Confirm that you got the email that explicitly says no cost, and no further action required on your part
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Quick and painless. I don't notice any immediate difference, but I only use the core features really. Clicked the button and it came back with the following text and that was it: >You have chosen to continue using the Free Legacy Edition of G Suite for personal use. >If you change your mind and want access to premium features, you can take advantage of a special discount by upgrading your subscription in the Google A…
Any idea which features are the premium features?
Folks seem to be favoring fastmail above most of the other options. Does anyone like ProtonMail? Any particularly compelling pros or cons for either?
ProtonMail (Switzerland) and especially Ctemplar (Iceland) are my favorites. I always recommend Ctemplar (even if i am swiss)....however i have my own mail-server..so there's that ;) EDIT: OHDAMN READ THIS!!!: https://ctemplar.com/ctemplar-is-shutting-down/ Now i have to make some calls
Yeah exactly what I'm afraid of. I don't want to do more than one migration.
Whelp screw me for proactively dealing with the situation I guess?
You got rid of Google, you migrated to something that suits you better, you will not worry next time Google try to pull this stunt again.
In my book, those are 3 positives, not a screw-up.
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This is great news for those folks that already were on the GSuite Legacy plan... but it's of zero help for folks looking to set something like this up now for personal reasons. I own my last name as a domain, and always thought it would be fun to use it for my primary email as firstname@lastname.com. Well... $6 a month for an individual "vanity" email address is already hard enough to justify once you realize Worksp…
Yah, I totally agree. As I said, I’m willing to pay. I’ll even pay $100 a year. Shoot, $150 if you want to include some cloud storage I won’t touch because I hate how Google Drive works. But $25-$30 a month, is just obscene for this sort of thing. Because I’m not a business. I’m an individual who would like my own domain name, the same way I’ve been using my own domain names since I was 14 years old. If in 2007 or 20…
Migadu, MXroute, or one other which is a YC company that I fail to remember the name of (ImprovMX I think?).
Cloudflare is doing forwarding too now.
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This is great news for those folks that already were on the GSuite Legacy plan... but it's of zero help for folks looking to set something like this up now for personal reasons. I own my last name as a domain, and always thought it would be fun to use it for my primary email as firstname@lastname.com. Well... $6 a month for an individual "vanity" email address is already hard enough to justify once you realize Worksp…
You can easily get hosting for ~$20/yr from classic web hosts like Hostineer and just set up email forwarding to people's personal Gmail and get the same functionality with a little bit more control and flexibility on your part.