Regardless of registrar, you can have email accounts on your own domain name through googlemail. (Prices vary over time, check their web site for current information.) Google offers web-mail, POP and IMAP. Synchronization with iPhone and other mobile devices is included. Links: sign-up POP IMAP DNS/MX records catch-all email URLs Unsub group
To get into the Google Apps Setup wizard AFTER you have
created your free google apps account and closed your browser,
use a URL such as this, with your domain name:
https://www.google.com/a/cpanel/href.com/Dashboard
SETTINGS > MAIL < ACCOUNTS Add a new account or edit an existing one... Make sure the type of account is IMAP Name: anything you want but should be your name Address: yourname@yourdomain.com example info@href.com Description: anything you want Incoming Mail Server Host name: imap.googlemail.com User Name: yourname@href.com Password: your password, case sensitive SMTP smtp.gmail.com Host name: smtp.gmail.com User Name: yourname@href.com Password: your password Use SSL: ON Authentication: your password Server Port: 587
If you have registered your domain with 007Names, you may use their free DNS and web mail services. To use their web mail, login at webmail.007names.com.
This is the most secure web mail service that we know of: hushmail.com.
If you are in New Zealand, consider using freeparking.co.nz as your domain registrar and add-on their email service. You will have a free DNS control panel, and control over your mailbox accounts.
FreeParking has excellent customer service. If you host multiple domains with them, you can organize things such that yourname@ will go to the SAME mailbox for all your domains. This can simplify things for tiny organizations. When you talk to Sales there, tell them you were referred by HREF Tools in California. (We do NOT get a sales commission.)
If you have registered your domain with crazydomains.com.au, you can use their full-featured email service for $1.50 per month, for up to 50 accounts, with a 10-year commitment.