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That sounds like an awful idea. If you update your Whois information all of a sudden all your Google Apps data gets deleted? I'd be furious.



I hadn't considered the case of updating whois information. However, to resolve that issue I'd simply provide a mechanism where you could flag your account as pending an authorized whois update. Then, when the whois is updated, google would not take any action since the update was pre-approved by yourself.


That's still about the worst way to handle it. A change in one unrelated area can completely wipe out services in another. Just to protect against the edge case that you didn't delete your account, want to keep your data protected and let your domain expire and be registered by someone else. Don't hurt legit customers to protect a fool.




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