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  • From: "Tony Spencer" <tony AT tonyspencer.com>
  • To: "'Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/'" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [internetworkers] email service suggestions?
  • Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 17:11:40 -0500

My 2 cents:
I hate GoDaddy.com. They are way restrictive with your control of the
domain. I much prefer:
http://www.000domains.com

I've purchased about 90 domains with them I and I'm very happy.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lee Haslup [mailto:biglee AT haslups.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 5:05 PM
> To: Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/
> Subject: Re: [internetworkers] email service suggestions?
>
> Rowland Smith wrote:
>
> > I'm looking for a permanent email service - something
> inexpensive that
> > I can use regardless of my ISP. Any suggestions?
>
> Rowland,
>
> The easiest, cheapest and most straightforward way to do
> it is to register your own domain name. You could, for
> instance, register "rowlandsmith.com" (currently available, I
> checked) for about $8.00 a year. That would give you control
> of any email address that ends with "@rowlandsmith.com".
> Almost all of the companies that register domains will offer
> email forwarding for the domain. Email forwarding is easy to
> use. You just log in to the management website for your
> domain and put your ISP-based email address in a table. If
> you change ISPs, just go to the management site again and put
> in the new address. One well-regarded company for
> registering domain names is GoDaddy.com. The offer a
> $10.00/year add-on that gives you spam filtering at their end
> and web mail (which is useful if you ever travel w/o your
> computer.) The extra $10 is probably a good investment since
> "permanent" email addresses tend to accumulate spam (because
> they present a sitting target, not because being permanent
> makes them more susceptible.)
>
> None of this is hard to do. Any number of people on the list
> will be glad to help (myself included) but it is easy enough
> to do that anyone who knows the word "ISP" can do it him/herself.
>
> BigLee
>
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