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Comment by angry_octet | Hacker News Reader

There is an option which costs money, in exchange for service. I don't really think you have a valid complaint at this point.

If you want to keep your domain without google there are various options. You could run a mail server in the free tier of various cloud providers and forward everything to GMail. You can archive old email and move it to a GMail account with extra storage.

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I'm not complaining, I just want a way to migrate off the (originally) promised "free for families" GMail For Domains to a regular GMail account. That's all. Or at least ALLOW me to PAY for increased storage. I don't even have that option now.

What do you mean by "migrate"? Do you mean just move your old email into a regular gmail account? Does Settings->Account and Import->Import via POP not work? See eg [1]. Or use Google Takeout and selectively re-import them using, e.g., Thunderbird. (G Apps for Education has a special Takeout Transfer [2] that does this automatically, they could have enabled this for the old GSuite accounts, but it has security implications that are hard to deal with.)

[1] https://www.lifewire.com/move-or-copy-mail-from-one-gmail-ac... [2] https://takeout.google.com/transfer

I mean have everything I have but using a different email address, a GMail one. Your solution doesn't solve moving purchases from the Play store over nor any shared photo albums, etc.

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