This is a preparatory thought experiment. A domain I currently own just renewed, but in the next year, I plan to decommission it. A little more about this domain:

1. carrying cost doesn’t pencil, I don’t gain more utility from it than it costs,
2. I have used it for email in the past, and some things are still tied to it,
3. it points to my website, but receives very little traffic.

My plan #

1. Cost #

I’d like to fully decommission this domain by roughly this time (February) next year (2027). It costs more than I feel it’s worth, and cleaning up my part of the Internet means having less domains, especially when somebody else might enjoy having it.

2. Email #

I haven’t given an email on this domain to anyone or anything in over a year, but I still receive some mail at it. I’m going to set up a folder for all email sent to it in Fastmail. Any email sent to this folder will be triaged. Spam will be discarded, anything else tied to it will be deleted or updated. This will help me clean up my online presence too.

3. Website #

A quick Google search reveals that this domain is not linked to publicly, so this is a non-concern.