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# Internet basics
## Everyone must have a domain name with portable email addresses
One of the pilars of Internet services is email. Nearly all important services offered on the Internet depend on the user having an email address. The Internet has evolved so that email is largely dominated by very few large companies and most people have their personal email address locked to these companies.
Previously, most Internet users used an email address provided by their Internet service provider (ISP). Because of the large number of independent ISPs worldwide, email was not controlled by few large companies. However, Internet users were locked to their ISP because of their personal email address.
Every Internet service associated to a physical person must include a DNS domain name and a portable email service.
When you get Internet service, including each individual data service included with individual mobile phone numbers, the buyer can choose a DNS domain name.
The portable email service enables the owner of the service to define email addresses and set a delivery target. ISPs should make the entire domain easily portable when a user switches to a different ISP.
The ISP must control use of the email addresses with the domain to prevent spam.
Delivery targets decouple the email domain from the email service that stores the email. Users can choose to store email in whatever service they prefer, including an ISP service or other services.
Email services must support transferring stored email.
## Everyone must have a feed reader. All website updates should work with feed readers
Getting updates from websites is tedious.
Many use social networks to centralize updates. However, social networks are mostly controlled by entities not aligned with you. Also, social networks are rarely used to centralize updates, so they tend to be suboptimal for this purpose.
RSS, ATOM and others are standards for sites to provide feeds of updates. There are plenty of feed readers.
When you use multiple devices to follow updates, having device synchronization of subscribed feeds and read items is nearly a necessity.
## Everyone must have sufficient data storage with sufficient resilience and control
Keeping data with sufficient resiliency is complex, because making proper backups is difficult and tedious.
Many storage providers do not give you enough control over your data if you want to move to a different provider. You should always keep a full copy of your data that you can access without the Internet. (You can achieve this by using systems that keep your data synchronized to at least a device you control, or by keeping your own backups.)
(A way to provide this would be for NAS devices to support easy interoperable mutual encrypted backups, so that you can easily back up your data to someone you know in a way that they cannot read your data unless you want them to.)
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