Registrar, WEB host, URL forwarding, Email Forwarding
You can have a personal web name
If you buy a domain like (mysite.com), you can choose any email addresses that end with your domain name, [email protected], [email protected], and so on. A personal URL (Domain Name) is less than $8 a year.
One advantage is that you can keep the same email address(es) forever (as long as you pay the bill). If you change registrar or hosting provider, your mailboxes move with you; you’ll never need to ask people to “please put my new email into your address book.” This is a must-have for anyone with a business; using B[email protected] for business email isn’t professional.
Want to set up email addresses for your family? You surely can. [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
Registering a URL (web address) is easy, and costs start at $8 a year. Again the most basic use of your URL is to have a custom email address. Something like [email protected] and [email protected]… You can use the same URL MyFamilyName.com to display a personal or business website or blog.
I recommend using one company as the registrar of your URL and a separate provider as your website’s host. That way, it is simple to change web hosts if things go wrong or a better deal comes along.
Registrars
A domain name registrar is an organization or commercial entity that manages the reservation of Internet domain names.
Register a Domain Name (URL) with NameSilo.com, my favorite. Get a Domain Name With Privacy Protection, Free Mail Forwards, and more. Create free email forwards and automatically redirect your email to existing email accounts. NameSilo.com currently has the best prices, especially considering they provide Privacy Protection as part of the registration. Click here for the pricing page.
Using email forwarding
NameSilo has free features to permit email forwarding and domain forwarding. Using an email forwarder, you can have [email protected] email forward to any email account you choose. I like the features of Gmail, so I have an account [email protected] as my catching account for most of my email addresses. Some addresses forwarded to [email protected] are [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], plus 5 or 6 more. The only account I need to check to read and reply to my email messages is [email protected].
- Note: Using Gmail’s “Send mail as:” feature, mail sent from the [email protected] account can appear to the recipient as though the message came from any of my custom email addresses [email protected], glen[email protected], [email protected] or any of the others.
WEB Host
My current WEB host is A2 Hosting. They have many plans depending on how much space and bandwidth you need. They have hosting plans starting at about $132 a year SeniorTechGroup.com is running on a $ 160-a-year plan, providing multiple domain hosting on one account. A2 Hosting is an excellent hosting company. I don’t know of any outages in the past year. I use a free web site watching service UpTimeRobot.com; they email me whenever my site is not responding.