I wonder what happens to all your Internet ‘stuff’ when you die

As one gets older one has more thoughts of the final unavoidable never-ending sleep.

I sometimes wonder what happens to all our Internet ‘stuff’ (sorry, I can’t think of a better word right now).

Things like:

• Sites where you have subscribed and they are sending you e-mails daily or weekly.
• Automatic subscriptions you have to services, such as the monthly US$9.95 I pay to Citrix for the GoToMyPC service.
• Accounts at Facebook, Twitter, SmugMug, etc.
• Data you might have in ‘free’ cloud storage services like Microsoft’s SkyDrive.
• Your e-mail if you used Internet e-mail services like Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo, etc.

I guess for things like SquareSpace, as nobody is likely to go in and pay that each year (they presumably will have no idea what the password is anyway), they will just close the account.

Ditto for yearly renewed domain names. Once they expire the domain name will be de-registered.