Domain name email
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My business has grown to a stage where I think I would benefit from my own email address domain name. I’m not 100% up to speed with all this so apologies for any discrepancies with terms and such. But would anyone recommend any websites for my own email? 123reg keeps coming up, and it’s just a 1 man business so costs are to be low. What should I be expecting to pay roughly?
TIA!
TIA!
I bought a domain about 2-3 years ago through VidaHost (now TSOHost) and use Zoho Mail for my email. It was a (reasonably) simple task to link the Zoho mail client to the domain (or was it vice versa???) and works fine. Zoho mail is free for 5 accounts and the domain costs me less than a tenner per year! In fact I've just checked and it is £7.19 per year!
If you want a .com it's about $10 a year, .co.uk is similar.
TSO gets a bit of hate (rightly so in many cases). But i have found their stuff fairly easy to use for .co.uk stuff (and their helpdesk are ok at answering things if you are not sure). I use godaddy.com for the .com domains.
Goto https://www.godaddy.com/ and https://www.tsohost.com/ to see if your domain is available.
You then own the domain NAME with that registrar. Which means you control the email address destination and the location of any website hosted. DO NOT TRANSFER THIS TO YOUR WEBDESIGNER if you ever emply someone to manage your website. .
Next if you want cheap email - you simply put a forwarding email address so hello@ABC213.com -> abc321@hotmail.com or whatever email address you currenly use, however replys will come from that hotmail address
If you want to reply to customers from your hello@ABC321.com you will need to pay for an email service. TSO have this or you can use Zoho who can handle your email (or microsoft exchange etc). Again you control the domain (this is why it is important not to transfer it over to a web desgn company) so you can point your emails to whatever email hosting (or webhosting) service you want to use.
Any questions just ask
TSO gets a bit of hate (rightly so in many cases). But i have found their stuff fairly easy to use for .co.uk stuff (and their helpdesk are ok at answering things if you are not sure). I use godaddy.com for the .com domains.
Goto https://www.godaddy.com/ and https://www.tsohost.com/ to see if your domain is available.
You then own the domain NAME with that registrar. Which means you control the email address destination and the location of any website hosted. DO NOT TRANSFER THIS TO YOUR WEBDESIGNER if you ever emply someone to manage your website. .
Next if you want cheap email - you simply put a forwarding email address so hello@ABC213.com -> abc321@hotmail.com or whatever email address you currenly use, however replys will come from that hotmail address
If you want to reply to customers from your hello@ABC321.com you will need to pay for an email service. TSO have this or you can use Zoho who can handle your email (or microsoft exchange etc). Again you control the domain (this is why it is important not to transfer it over to a web desgn company) so you can point your emails to whatever email hosting (or webhosting) service you want to use.
Any questions just ask
No problems with google domains myself. Cheap, easy, and reliable. Moved my domain name to them a couple of years ago from whoever I originally bought it from (godaddy I think)
I set up a few @whatever addresses pointing to specific gmail/hotmail accounts, and one catchall account for everything else.
Can also do the same within gmail, although they make it a little trickier to do.
I set up a few @whatever addresses pointing to specific gmail/hotmail accounts, and one catchall account for everything else.
Brother D said:
Next if you want cheap email - you simply put a forwarding email address so hello@ABC213.com -> abc321@hotmail.com or whatever email address you currenly use, however replys will come from that hotmail address
If you want to reply to customers from your hello@ABC321.com you will need to pay for an email service. TSO have this or you can use Zoho who can handle your email (or microsoft exchange etc).
You don't have to pay... it is very easy to add to hotmail/outlook as an alias...add it, confirm when the verification email is sent, and you can then send a new email from your domain by choosing it in the 'from' field in hotmail, or you can simply reply to emails without the recipient having any idea it is coming from a hotmail account.If you want to reply to customers from your hello@ABC321.com you will need to pay for an email service. TSO have this or you can use Zoho who can handle your email (or microsoft exchange etc).
Can also do the same within gmail, although they make it a little trickier to do.
Edited by GCH on Wednesday 8th April 20:27
GCH said:
You don't have to pay... it is very easy to add to hotmail/outlook as an alias...add it, confirm when the verification email is sent, and you can then send a new email from your domain by choosing it in the 'from' field in hotmail, or you can simply reply to emails without the recipient having any idea it is coming from a hotmail account.
Can also do the same within gmail, although they make it a little trickier to do.
Yes you can add a 'reply to' with the address of a domain, but I recall this increases the chances of the return message being marked as spam. So for business I would recommend an email hosting service. Can also do the same within gmail, although they make it a little trickier to do.
Edited by GCH on Wednesday 8th April 20:27
Ive used 123reg for years with no issues. Then I pay for GSuite via Google at a couple of quid per month. Cant remember how I did it now (moved from IT into this business!) but you can link it so that your email@domain.com is hosted on GMail It means Gmail etc apps work on almost anything and are a doddle to get working and because its a paid for service you have some proper support/SLA from Google should you need it.
Works great for me and the other GSuite apps for office, Drive etc are excellent.
Works great for me and the other GSuite apps for office, Drive etc are excellent.
Best solution is Microsoft 365. £4 odd quid a month for enterprise level email. Worth every penny! The issues with the likes of TSOHost and other cheap email providers is they use shared servers in which you send email from the same IP as thousands of other companies and often end up in your customers spam folders due to bad reputation.
S6PNJ said:
I bought a domain about 2-3 years ago through VidaHost (now TSOHost) and use Zoho Mail for my email. It was a (reasonably) simple task to link the Zoho mail client to the domain (or was it vice versa???) and works fine. Zoho mail is free for 5 accounts and the domain costs me less than a tenner per year! In fact I've just checked and it is £7.19 per year!
Be careful, while Zoho is free still, you can't get IMAP access under the free accounts anymore. It's fine if you plan on just using either POP (outdated) or just the web interface but you have to now pay a small fee to get IMAP access which is better if you need to access your emails across multiple devices. srappy said:
S6PNJ said:
I bought a domain about 2-3 years ago through VidaHost (now TSOHost) and use Zoho Mail for my email. It was a (reasonably) simple task to link the Zoho mail client to the domain (or was it vice versa???) and works fine. Zoho mail is free for 5 accounts and the domain costs me less than a tenner per year! In fact I've just checked and it is £7.19 per year!
Be careful, while Zoho is free still, you can't get IMAP access under the free accounts anymore. It's fine if you plan on just using either POP (outdated) or just the web interface but you have to now pay a small fee to get IMAP access which is better if you need to access your emails across multiple devices. Huntsman said:
Useful thread. I need to do this and have no idea where to start.
Step 1 - Decide on a domain name (How about huntsmanonline.co.uk for £4.95 for the first year?)Step 2 - Use any one of the above domain name suppliers and look to see if it is available
Step 3 - Buy the domain from a recommended domain name supplier
Step 4 - Use one of the above suggested email registration methods
Step 5 - Step back, bask in the glory that is your own domain named email addresses!
S6PNJ said:
Step 1 - Decide on a domain name (How about huntsmanonline.co.uk for £4.95 for the first year?)
Step 2 - Use any one of the above domain name suppliers and look to see if it is available
Step 3 - Buy the domain from a recommended domain name supplier
Step 4 - Use one of the above suggested email registration methods
Step 5 - Step back, bask in the glory that is your own domain named email addresses!
Got. It. Thanks.Step 2 - Use any one of the above domain name suppliers and look to see if it is available
Step 3 - Buy the domain from a recommended domain name supplier
Step 4 - Use one of the above suggested email registration methods
Step 5 - Step back, bask in the glory that is your own domain named email addresses!
I have registered a domain name through wix as that's where my website will be. Seems to be some link with gmail where you can have a domain name email address.
Edited by Huntsman on Wednesday 22 April 19:05
I'd echo the advice you've got of buying the name and also paying for an email service. To be honest I'd stick to either Google or Microsoft for that. If you already use Office then a combination of O365 and enterprise email is a winner and gives you desktop apps, cloud apps and OneDrive storage as well as lots of other things for a great monthly price. Even just an email package is worth every penny IMO.
Google has the advantage of being able to also abuse the system to basically have unlimited cloud storage if you want. I think I pay £8 a month for GSuite business which gives me the email service as well as an effective unlimited Google Drive. If you only have one user there is a supposed limit on the amount of cloud storage but it is never enforced. While I'm happy to commit my BluRay rips to that I'm not sure I would with business documents with it which is why I actually subscribe to both - Microsoft for business and google for personal.
Google has the advantage of being able to also abuse the system to basically have unlimited cloud storage if you want. I think I pay £8 a month for GSuite business which gives me the email service as well as an effective unlimited Google Drive. If you only have one user there is a supposed limit on the amount of cloud storage but it is never enforced. While I'm happy to commit my BluRay rips to that I'm not sure I would with business documents with it which is why I actually subscribe to both - Microsoft for business and google for personal.
HantsRat said:
Best solution is Microsoft 365. £4 odd quid a month for enterprise level email. Worth every penny! The issues with the likes of TSOHost and other cheap email providers is they use shared servers in which you send email from the same IP as thousands of other companies and often end up in your customers spam folders due to bad reputation.
Don't underestimate the buggeration factor of this, a previous employer of mine lost a huge amount of potential business to this, they'd respond to an enquiry and then never hear back..... took us a long time to realise that shared IP addressing was causing our mails to be marked as spam and filtered accordingly at the (potential) client end.As above, 365 well recommended.
Thread resurrection!
I am considering leaving the firm I work with and setting up on my own (all amicable and open) but want to secure the company name, web address etc beforehand.
I have zero experience of this, however the current company uses Fasthosts for web and email hosting but at my user end I log in via GMail and there are no end of issues with my emails going into client spam folders - I don't know if this is due to us using fasthosts, Gmail, or the fact both are inolved.
In short - I want to avoid this.
The web address I want is available via godaddy for 86p for the first year (usually £11.99), and I was intending using GMail to manage emails though I've no idea how to set it up, I'm sure it can't be that difficult.
Does anybody have any positive or negative to add or any alternative suggestions?
It'll be a small firm with only a handful of email addresses, and email security and reliability are key - I'll pay someone to design a website later but don't know if that needs to be considered at all when choosing who to buy the domain name and email service through?
I am considering leaving the firm I work with and setting up on my own (all amicable and open) but want to secure the company name, web address etc beforehand.
I have zero experience of this, however the current company uses Fasthosts for web and email hosting but at my user end I log in via GMail and there are no end of issues with my emails going into client spam folders - I don't know if this is due to us using fasthosts, Gmail, or the fact both are inolved.
In short - I want to avoid this.
The web address I want is available via godaddy for 86p for the first year (usually £11.99), and I was intending using GMail to manage emails though I've no idea how to set it up, I'm sure it can't be that difficult.
Does anybody have any positive or negative to add or any alternative suggestions?
It'll be a small firm with only a handful of email addresses, and email security and reliability are key - I'll pay someone to design a website later but don't know if that needs to be considered at all when choosing who to buy the domain name and email service through?
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