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AOL allows personal email domains

September 15, 2006 by in Tech with 11 Comments

There is no NO EXCUSE not to have an email address at your own domain.

AOL yesterday started offering personalized email domains at no charge. Called My eAddress, the service enables someone to choose any email address they wish using the .com or .net domains. As a result, a person could set up separate addresses for communicating with friends and family, and business colleagues. AOL is providing up to 100 addresses for each personal domain.

I was a beta tester for this service, and there is a catch. If you register the domain via AOL, AOL owns the domain. However if you use a third party registrar like Network Solutions, you can keep your domain name, all you need to do is change the name servers.

So to recap, free domain email hosting, with free IMAP, on free AOL. No brainer, even though it is AOL.

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  • sky

    I know you think by now everyone would catch on. It drives me insane when small business owners hand me their business card and their email is something like “vance_refrigeration@hotmail.com”

  • http://www.uneasysilence.com Dan

    It costs NOTHING to do this now… Please, anyone who is listening, drop your free email and use your own domain!

  • flubluflu

    Can someone post a link to sign up for the personal domain service from AOL as in the UK I get redirected to the login page. Any help would be appreciated…

  • http://www.uneasysilence.com Dan
  • http://5thirtyone.com Derek

    Does this require users to use the nasty AOL email interface?

  • Roger

    Sounded too good to be true, and seems to be (so far). According to the FAQ:

    6. If I already have a domain, can I use it with AOL My eAddress?

    Not yet. Currently AOL My eAddress does not allow for the transfer of existing domain names into the system. Check back soon for this functionality.

    (Also, you need a cell phone in order to register and get a password, not really a big deal unless you are worried that at some point AOL will use it for something else, which they claim they won’t).

  • Noah

    thanks but nothanks AOL Gmail is just to good :P

  • Adam

    Google do offer a good service — superficially, at least. Once you start to look at some of its problems, you can’t help but wonder…

    http://www.gmail-is-too-creepy.com/

  • Sidd

    this requires you giving AOL your cell phone number

  • xjasonx

    so basically aol will own all these @name addresses and then throw their own ads on it and making people who read joe@joeschmoe.com will be like oh lets go to http://www.joeschmoe.com and then see an aol page instead of a page hosting your resume or whatever..

    how do you register through netsolutions for free so you retain ownership of the domain?

  • anonymoustroll

    uh…. you’re 888 number doesn’t work from skype

    …and aol isn’t doing mx forwarding

    how lame are both of those things?

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