Setting up website/email domain

Yucca · 12 Mar 2011 at 20:32

Hi all

Need some help with my new company website/email set up as im not great at this stuff.

I understand that to set up a website i first need to buy the space on the internet, the address i want. So i need to buy the mycompany.co.uk domain.

I understand how to do that. You can but domains through several companies online (im just typing in 'buy domain name' and its coming up with a few).

But what about email? How do i go about buying the @mycompany.co.uk email domain/server/space so that i can in future setup [email protected] and [email protected] and every other email address i need?

Thanks

Yucca · 12 Mar 2011 at 20:35

So when i buy the domain mycompany.co.uk i'l own the @mycompany.co.uk email addresses?

Yucca · 12 Mar 2011 at 20:50

When i go to but the domain mycompany.co.uk it asks if i want to but any extras. One of which is ADD EMAIL FOR 0.99p a month. Make email more personal - get an address which ends in your own domain name.

So does this mean i need to set up all the ones i want now or can i just ignore this and set them up any time? Why do i have to pay 0.99p a month? For hosting? Isnt the space already mine if i purchase the domain?

Yucca · 12 Mar 2011 at 21:00

Im looking at 123-reg but i dont mind where i buy from.

I dont need the email addresses for a few months yet. Maybe not until the end of the year.

I just want to but the domain name and ensure that no one else can have/use mycompany.co.uk or any email address [email protected].

What do you recommend?

Yucca · 12 Mar 2011 at 21:11

So if i but the domain name now i can always buy a host package and setup email addresses later right?

And once i have brought the domain name no one can use any email address ending in @mycompany.com regardless of if i have set it up for myself yet or not right?

Thanks for all the help guys!

Yucca · 12 Mar 2011 at 21:19

Thanks for the help man!

And i should but the mycompany.com as well as the co.uk one right? I can set it up so that if anyone goes to .com it sends you to the .co.uk site. I dont want someone to buy .com version of my site and confuse customers!