Users will be able to change their username only once every 12 months. Plus, they won’t be able to delete their new email address for that period of time.
Archived version: https://archive.is/20260331184305/https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/31/google-is-now-letting-users-in-the-us-change-their-gmail-address/
Had that email address for over 25 years. It’s the only one that has my actual name attached to it. It’s how very very very old friends and people I haven’t talked to since college still manage to reach out and get in contact with me. I don’t think I wanna change it. I have other, newer email addresses I use for contemporaneous stuff.
Also, spam
This is why I bought a domain years ago. Change and alias and whatever I want whenever I want.
Oh, I had my own Web server for a couple of decades, and while that was useful, maintaining my own email server was a pain in the ass. Especially for junk mail filtering.
I agree. I don’t host it myself though. I’m just Google’s product with that super grandfathered free version of workspace.
Oh, I’m sorry, I clearly misunderstood what you said and what you were were referring to
You don’t need to run your own email server to use a custom domain, some email providers let you use your own domain.
Shout out to Purely Mail!