Email Addresses

Almost everyone reading this page has an email address. Many of you will have several. Email today has become as indispensable as the telephone.

In spite of this many people are still unaware of the importance of their email until such a time as they change their ISP and no longer receive any more emails.

Email Address and Domain Names

 All email addresses have the form name@domain-name. The domain-name is a name that is registered on the Internet, by yourself or by another company. Today it is common for all companies to register their own domain name and so all email addressed to that company would be addressed to someone@company-domain-name.

For individuals/ personal email, it is common today to use the domain name of the email provider, usually the ISP , and the email address has the form you@ISP-domain-name.

However you may want to consider the advantages of your own email address.

 Email Addresses from Free Providers

There are many sources of free email addresses and email accounts. The main ones are:

• ISP

• Yahoo, Hotmail and Gmail

ISP Email

Your ISP ( Internet service provider) usually provides you with email addresses and web space as part of your Internet package. It is common for most people to use these email addresses as their main address.

If you use this type of email then the email address has the form you@ISP-domain-name.

Yahoo, Hotmail and Gmail

Yahoo and Hotmail are the most common free web based email accounts in the world. They have become popular mainly because they allowed you to access you email from anywhere in the world via a web browser.

 So if your name is John Doe and you have an email account with Yahoo, then your email address would be:
johndoe@yahoo.com.

What Wrong with these Addresses ?

There is nothing wrong with an email address provided by free email providers and in some circumstances they are all you need. However, If you use a free email account provider or your ISP, then you may find yourself, for no fault of your own having to change email address.

Get Your Own Email Address

How about an address like john@johndoe.com. This personal type email address has many advantages and is considered in how to Get and Create Your Own Email Address

Theme based or Personalized  Email Addresses

Many companies offer email addresses ( many free) with unusual domain names. Like you@smileyface.com or you@backstreet-boys.com you@Iluvyou.com. They can be very amusing and very easy to remember but maybe not an address for a the long term.

If you are going to use this type of address I wouldn't use it as a main address.

Common Email Techniques

Email Forwarding

Email forwarding is very common on the Internet and used for a variety of reasons and is covered here in email forwarding.

Catch-All Email Addresses

Email Address Verification

Email Addresses,  Email Accounts and Mailboxes

It is very important that you are aware of the distinction between an email account (or mailbox) and an email address.

An email address is not an email account! You can have an email address and not an email account, in which case you would use email forwarding to forward the email to an address that had an account associated with it.

Without an email account or mailbox you cannot access or store email.

Email accounts are always linked to email addresses but email  addresses are not always linked to email accounts. Email Addresses can, and often are linked to other addresses (email forwarding).

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