Comment by marcus_holmes
5 years ago
At least stop signing up for new things so you don't make the problem worse.
It is a risk. I had a problem with my Google account, and while I was able to find a human to email about it, they were completely unable to help. It was literally "you have to do the thing, even though it makes no sense, because that's what our algorithm requires" (in my case it was repurchase an old domain in order to prove that I owned it, so they could cancel the account associated with that domain. Literally makes no sense, but it was the only way their process could work). That was my "ruh-oh" moment when I realised their products are basically unsupported and therefore shouldn't be used in production.
> in my case it was repurchase an old domain in order to prove that I owned it
What happens if the domain-name is repurchased by someone else or claimed by Sedo, etc?
He's fucked and has to hope the nice new domain owner will help him out.
That doesn't seem likely.
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A few comments before, I've seen someone recommending to sign up for an (advanced!) (Microsoft's) LinkedIn account to solve an issue like this one. Then I guess to solve a problem with LinkedIn you'll have to sign up for a Twitter account, and so on and so forth..?