Which domain name?

When choosing a domain name for me, I plumped for thehandsfamily.com - that way any member of my family could have an email address that sounded logical.

Btw, I used GoDaddy to buy mine - exchange rate from USD to GBP is awesome at the moment :)
 
Three main options:

1) Pay for hosting with email included.

2) Set up your own email server. I did this and had it running for about 2 years, till a week or so ago when I decided that the spam filtering I had set up wasn't enough and it was time to do something else... (3)

3) Just use the services provided by your domain registrar (I use ukreg.com) to have email to your domain forwarded to another email account - I've now just got all my email forwarding to my Gmail account (and I've set that up so that my reply-to address is the one at my domain name).

I'd recommend option 3, unless you particularly want to learn about e-mail servers, and option 1 is silly when 3 is just as good but free.

Hope this helps :)
 
"(and I've set that up so that my reply-to address is the one at my domain name)."

How do you do this?

I have set up Mercury mail for testing with @ipaddress email and can only get admin@ipaddress to send mail. Everything bounces back with 550 error. (I watch it go through and it sends OK, but I promptly receive the error in reply.)
 
Gmail lets you set it up so that the from field also has your custom domain in too: Login to Gmail > Settings > Accounts > Add another email address > Set it as default.

Job done.

And of course Gmail can work with Outlook Express by enabling POP3 collection.

Hope this helps :)
 
With regards e-mail, the domain type really isn't so important.
If it was a website and you wanted people to find you then sticking to the common .com, .net, .co.uk would make sense.
With e-mail most people after they have made contact with you will either hit reply or simply use their address book.

I spent an age getting a domain for my e-mail as I wanted a "surname" domain so that I could be [email protected]thing
However I share a surname first with an American clothing manufacturer and then my surname isn't that rare.
Eventually I managed to get surname.info which I used for quite a while.
Last year I secured surname.eu and that is what I'm using right now.

Before I managed to get a surname domain I used first initial surname dot com
Not idea, but worked while I waited patiently for other domains to hopefully drop etc.
 
Sorry to steal your thread again, but can you have different prefixes go to different mail boxes? So I can give family members a decent email address but not receive their mail?

I.e. trif@ goes to my gmail account. Dad@ goes to my dads gmail account etc.
 
Trifid said:
Sorry to steal your thread again, but can you have different prefixes go to different mail boxes? So I can give family members a decent email address but not receive their mail?

I.e. trif@ goes to my gmail account. Dad@ goes to my dads gmail account etc.
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Indeed you can.
Most places that register domain names will also give you free e-mail forwarding.
Some will be unrestricted on the number, others may limit you to 100 or something.
So basically you setup a number of mail forwarders:

[email protected] forwards to [email protected]
[email protected] forwards to [email protected]
[email protected] forwards to [email protected]

All people need to do then is change their "From" address in the e-mail program of their choice and there you go - personal e-mail addresses for as long as you keep renting the domain.
 
markyp23 said:
Also found that surname.uk.net is available but I don't really want to spend £30 a year for a nicer email address :(
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The main problem with the uk.net (as well as the uk.com) domains is that they aren't true TLD's.
Basically a company owns both the uk.com & uk.net domains and is selling subdomains.
This is why you pay a lot more for them - it isn't so automated.
However at any time they could just vanish and of course with them so would all your e-mail.
 
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