Office365 Domain

SkidMarkKing · 11 May 2018 at 09:34

Hi guys,

hoping this is the correct section for this post?

I have found a domain to buy and want to set it up with office 365 for the emails. I am aware office365 exchange is £3 a month. In a few youtube videos they mention you need to change records from your host to point to office 365 but I thought office 365 was the host?

The only other thing I can think is when they say "host" they mean where you purchased the domain from?

Thanks

stoofa · 11 May 2018 at 09:48

DNS/Zone records for the domain need to be pointed to Microsoft. So yes, you will need to make changes where the domain is hosted - as per Microsoft's instruction.
GoDaddy & 123-reg would both offer you the ability to make those changes yourself.

SkidMarkKing · 11 May 2018 at 09:51

stoofa said:
DNS/Zone records for the domain need to be pointed to Microsoft. So yes, you will need to make changes where the domain is hosted - as per Microsoft's instruction.
GoDaddy & 123-reg would both offer you the ability to make those changes yourself.

Thank you. Some people on youtube were making out you pay £10 a year (for example) for the domain name + £3 a month for O365 + hosting as well on top.

stoofa · 11 May 2018 at 10:14

You will still need to pay a yearly registration for your domain name - standard Nominet charges are £10/year for a .uk or .co.uk. So yes you will have a yearly fee on your domain name, outside of what you're paying for your 365 access.
However there is no hosting that your domain host needs to do - just allow you to manually alter DNS information etc.

SkidMarkKing · 11 May 2018 at 10:18

stoofa said:
You will still need to pay a yearly registration for your domain name - standard Nominet charges are £10/year for a .uk or .co.uk. So yes you will have a yearly fee on your domain name, outside of what you're paying for your 365 access.
However there is no hosting that your domain host needs to do - just allow you to manually alter DNS information etc.

I have purchased the domain for £10 via 123-reg. They want an extra £35 for a mail box but that's what ile be paying microsoft O365 for, right?

Glanza · 11 May 2018 at 15:29

SkidMarkKing said:
I have purchased the domain for £10 via 123-reg. They want an extra £35 for a mail box but that's what ile be paying microsoft O365 for, right?

Yes if your using the domain purely for emails you don't need hosting or any mailboxes, you need to go into the advanced dns section and adjust your MX records to point to the ones o365 give you then your email will start working. Remember to setup a spf record.

stoofa · 11 May 2018 at 16:16

SkidMarkKing said:
I have purchased the domain for £10 via 123-reg. They want an extra £35 for a mail box but that's what ile be paying microsoft O365 for, right?

As above, the only money you will be paying 123-reg will be your £10/year Nominet fees for your domain name (or more if it was a .com or .net for example).
Whoever is supplying your 365 service will want the rest