Add-on components that enhance and customize the Visual Studio integrated development environment
Thanks for the details.
Unfortunately, Visual Studio Marketplace publisher ownership cannot be recovered or reassigned manually by users once access is lost (expired PAT + inaccessible email domain). There is no self-service option to reassign a publisher to a new account, even if the author is the same.
The only supported option in this scenario is to contact Microsoft Visual Studio Marketplace Support and request a publisher ownership recovery. Microsoft may verify authorship and, at their discretion, either restore access or advise creating a new publisher.
If Microsoft cannot recover the publisher, the extension will need to be republished under a new publisher ID, as Marketplace publishers cannot be force-transferred.