Google now lets free GSuite users “opt out” of account shutdown
arstechnica.comGood on Google for walking this back.
I have no clue on dkim/spf/dmarc implementation details (so correct me if I'm wrong) but I can't imagine it costs google anymore to send an email as "yourname@example.com" vs "From yourname@gmail.com on behalf of yourname@example.com".
Assuming that's the case as soon as it was walked back from don't pay and your account, data, and purchases are gone to don't pay and only your email is gone but you're allowed to create a free email like everyone else they were in a unenviable position.
They'd basically have to waste engineer and support hours to make an objectively worse system just to reclassify domain names in emails as premium for a group that new customers couldn't be part of. Even then the price tag on premium addresses is much less with an email forwarder rather than the large price (for families) that google wanted.
If you already transitioned to a paid account (like me) you can easily switch back to free. Go to admin.google.com, click the "Help" icon on the top right of the page, click "contact support" at the bottom, click "question about G Suite legacy free edition", click "I used G Suite legacy free edition for personal use", click the big blue button: "Switch back to GSuite Legacy free".
This doesn’t work on my account.
doesn't work on mine either. just click to chat with a support agent and they will settle it for you.
Dear google:
I run a family email domain from GSuite. Let me pay you for SOMETHING that's less than a full business account. I never expected the free ride to last 16 years.
A dollar or two per month would be nice. Enough to know what to expect, but not so much that I consider other severs.
Yea. I've got 11 users... you're looking at like $800/yr. We don't use any of the GSuite features other than email/docs which are all available for free.
I had 7 users using just email. I cancelled GSuite last month after being on the free tier for 15 years and not wanting to pay $6 a month per person. I went through the pain process of creating everyone in the family new Gmail accounts and using Google Takeout so I could transfer everyones email etc to their new accounts and then I set up Google Domains email forwarding to these accounts. I took me all day to setup separate device passwords for everyone.
Its was not a fun process
I'm assuming if you deleted your free GSuite account at the beginning in a panic, you're probably screwed, right?
Being lazy wins again!