Our project is a simple registry, not an auto-reply or forwarding service. People tell us their old email address—one that is no longer active and no longer receives mail—and their current email address. We write that mapping into storage: old address → new address. The old address is dead, and no one is informing senders automatically, because the old inbox cannot send or receive anything. The registry is the informing mechanism.
How it works
- A person submits their old, inactive email address and their new, active email address.
- We store the pair in a searchable registry.
- Anyone who still has the old address can look it up in the registry and immediately see the new address.
- The old address is not censored, blocked, or erased from anyone’s contact list. It is simply recorded as retired, with a pointer to where the person can now be reached.
The principle
If someone can still find the old address, they should be able to get the new one. Because the old inbox is dead, the registry does the telling. No one is monitoring the old address, and no message is forwarded. The storage is the bridge: it openly says, “This old address is no longer in use; here is the current one.”
What the project provides
We provide the storage and lookup layer: a place to register retired addresses, a way to search them, and clear rules for consent and accuracy so that only the owner can register a mapping. We do not censor the old address. We do not pretend it still works. We simply record that it is dead and where the person has gone—so that anyone who writes to the old one, or finds it in an old message, can get the new one from the registry.
Why it matters
Old email addresses persist in contacts, documents, and mailing lists long after they stop working. Without a registry, those addresses become silent dead ends. Our project turns them into transparent, searchable signposts: the old address is dead, no one is informing automatically, but the storage tells anyone who asks where to find the new address.
