OT: Help with my email

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Arthur Entlich

Hi All.

As most of you know, I receive and send out a minor ton of email
regarding Epson issues.

I try to maintain good contact with the general internet "public" and do
not like to change my email address too often so people do not lose
track of where I can be found should they need assistance.

I am about to change my internet provider again, meaning yet another
email address change. However, I am trying to make this "the last" time
I need to do this. I am considering buying my own domain for this
purpose, which would hopefully remain constant even should I change ISPs
again.

My question is this: Can anyone suggest an inexpensive and reliable
service that would maintain my domain, and which would forward my E-mail
to me at wherever I indicated, where I could receive and have forwarded
up to 100-200 emails per day, without paying some outrageous forwarding
charges? And could I then use that domain email name as the point of
origin of my messages, so anyone responding to them would end up
contacting me via that special domain address?

If this can be accomplished, I could then maintain one domain address
exclusively for helping people with printer issues, and even if I
changed my ISP again, that address would remain "fixed".

And no, I have no intention of charging any fees or restricting my
availability, but since I do this on a fully volunteer basis, I would
like to keep my costs low, if possible, in accomplishing this.

Any suggestion regarding this would be most appreciated. But please
email me privately since this off topic and likely not of interest to
many others on this list.

Thank you

Art
 
I think the correct name is: http://aitcom.net/


I believe this is the company my colleague uses and recommends. This
company can host a domain at a reasonable price. I would get the domain
at http://www.internic.com/ or www.verasign.com/

AIT can also host your website and allow you to subhost the space you
get from them allowing you to make money on the entire deal. This
company is back East in Carolina or some place like that. My business
colleague, both of us are computer professionals by trade, has used them
for about 5 years and is satisfied. The majority of his customers also
use him but they lease space from him on a sub-hosting basis.

Internic aka Verasign is a domain registrar. AIT will host the domain
and also lease you webspace for a website at various ratges depending on
size and traffic.

If you need any more help post a response.
 
www.verasign.com/

Many of us who've been webbing for a while
would recommend avoiding Verisign at all
costs. They tend to be expensive, incompetent,
and evil.

There are many better registrars. I happily
use GoDaddy.com myself.

-- stan
 
I started out with Internic in 1996. They sort of were a pain in the
ass. Verasign bought out Internic and were a better pain in the ass.
Now Verasign is just fine. I believe but am not sure that currently
Internic and Verasign are the same company.
 
I believe but am not sure that currently Internic and Verasign are the
same company.
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Nope.

InterNIC.com is a website run by the registry
overseers, ICANN.

Verisign is an independent company. At one
point they had a monopoly on website registrations,
and behaved as such. They still generally do.

ICANN, and many other folks, have had run-ins
with Verisign over the years. One can Google on

Verisign problem

to view the tip (664,000 hits) of the iceberg.

-- stan
 
Any suggestion regarding this would be most appreciated. But please
email me privately since this off topic and likely not of interest to
many others on this list.

Thank you
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At last, an easy one: www.godaddy.com

..com is $8.95 per year (or $7.95 py for 5 years) .us is a dollar
cheaper and you can get email for 9.95 per year.

I've used them myself - they're cheap, efficient and work.

--

Hecate - The Real One
(e-mail address removed)
Fashion: Buying things you don't need, with money
you don't have, to impress people you don't like...
 
Arthur Entlich said:
Hi All.

As most of you know, I receive and send out a minor ton of email
regarding Epson issues.

I try to maintain good contact with the general internet "public" and do
not like to change my email address too often so people do not lose
track of where I can be found should they need assistance.

I am about to change my internet provider again, meaning yet another
email address change. However, I am trying to make this "the last" time
I need to do this. I am considering buying my own domain for this
purpose, which would hopefully remain constant even should I change ISPs
again.

My question is this: Can anyone suggest an inexpensive and reliable
service that would maintain my domain, and which would forward my E-mail
to me at wherever I indicated, where I could receive and have forwarded
up to 100-200 emails per day, without paying some outrageous forwarding
charges? And could I then use that domain email name as the point of
origin of my messages, so anyone responding to them would end up
contacting me via that special domain address?

If this can be accomplished, I could then maintain one domain address
exclusively for helping people with printer issues, and even if I
changed my ISP again, that address would remain "fixed".

And no, I have no intention of charging any fees or restricting my
availability, but since I do this on a fully volunteer basis, I would
like to keep my costs low, if possible, in accomplishing this.

Any suggestion regarding this would be most appreciated. But please
email me privately since this off topic and likely not of interest to
many others on this list.

Thank you

Art
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Oh this is so simple.

Go here:
http://www.godaddy.com

Cheap and efficient.
One email address ... forever.
 
You are one of many who has suggested godaddy.com I will further pursue
and define my needs and check each suggestion out.

Thanks,

Art
 
From my friend experience, the nice thing about ait is that you can buy
block of space and then sell them in smaller lots allowing you to either
make money or break even on hosting.
 
From my friend experience, the nice thing about ait is that you can buy
block of space and then sell them in smaller lots allowing you to either
make money or break even on hosting.
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You don't even need to have web space. Just a domain name and then
email forwarding.

--

Hecate - The Real One
(e-mail address removed)
Fashion: Buying things you don't need, with money
you don't have, to impress people you don't like...
 
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