How to Get and Create Your Own Email Address
There are two main types of email addresses:
To create a new free email address e.g. hotmail you will need to go to the hotmail site and create a new account or id. The account can be used for accessing the various services and is associated with an email address. You cannot create an email address without first creating the account/or id. For the main three providers you cannot have multiple email addresses without creating multiple accounts. You should note that these are not simple email accounts but service accounts giving you access to multiple services. However if you are using an ISP then you can normally create multiple addresses using the email control panel. I don't recommend free accounts see free email accounts for a comparison. For paid accounts you need:
A domain name is the basis of your email addresses, and is not as expensive as many think, often costing less than $10 per year. Your own Domain NameOnce you have your own domain name it belongs to you and you control it. With your own domain name you can create your own email addresses, and best of all, provided you continue to pay the annual registration fee, you can keep it as long as you want. A domain name is in effect an address. It can be the address of a Website, and it can also the address of a mailbox. The email address has the general form mailbox@name2.name1 Where:
In this case we are looking at the primary use being email, with an address of this form. Where johndoe.com is the registered domain name and john is the mailbox name. Because you own the domain name you can create as many email addresses as you desire and name them accordingly. One of the very popular uses of the type of email address is on personal websites or website named after the owner - where the email address is commonly: ask@johndoe.com Although the use of a .com address is very common the Internet authorities have pre-assigned a domain name for use by individuals for personal use --It is the .name TLD. Using this type of address our email would then be: So which domain should you choose? Choosing your domain name is a two step procedure discussed in choosing and registering your email domain name. Create Email AddressesOnce you have chosen and registered your own domain name then it is a relatively easy ask to create email addresses. Having your own domain name means that you can create unlimited email addresses. If your domain name is johndoe.name then your email addresses will have the form someone@johndoe.name. where someone is the mailbox name e.g. john. The mailbox name, or what is often called the local part, usually consists of alphanumeric characters (a-z,0-9). Many so called special characters are allowed but some can cause problems. The most common one is the . (dot). Email addresses of the form: firstname.lastname@johndoe.name are very common. I would stick with only:
Even though a space is allowed it causes problems and should be avoided. Here you will find a list of valid email address characters along with explanations. Remember the address is not the mailbox you will still need to associate a mailbox with the address you create or use email forwarding. Your Domain Name and WebsiteThese articles have concentrated on email. However you have purchased a domain name and this name can be used for your website. So not only can you have email at ask@johndoe.name you also can have a website at www.johndoe.name. Related articles:
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