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If I choose to change phone carrier, I can take my phone number with me. The same cannot be said for my email address.


Which is why you buy a domain for $10/yr and use the "custom domains" feature of your email host.

Like it sucks that getting a permanent identifier is an annoying technical process but DNS is the closest thing to a universal global identifier you can own in a meaningful sense.




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