Many people use free email accounts, especially when they want to be annonymous. Often they use them if they want to avoid spam. This article deep in the GoDaddy site, designed of course to sell you a GoDaddy email account, explains some of the downsides to useing free email services. You should never use a free email account for something important because it can generally be terminated at any time and you may miss critical information.
We do use a gmail account on occaision around here to conveniently store things we made need later from a remote location and don’t want to store. Gmail seems to be the most stable at this time of the common ones. It also is quite generous on storage space. If you need a gmail invite, email us at: the admins at htmlfixit dot com (without the spaces). We would be happy to share one.
Recently I heard a story of someone who had a domain name and used a hotmail account for the contact address. They failed to log in with sufficient frequency to maintain the email address, and it was then registered by another person who … got the domain name renewal switched using the “commandeered” hotmail address. In fact, I have heard rumor that there are people actively searching who is databases to find domains with hotmail and other free services used for the registration addresses. Beware!
