Using your own domain for emails

[Jamie101]

Didn't really know which section to ask this in, but hopefully here is okay!

Basically, I just want to ask if you have any tips when it comes to using your own domain for your emails ([email protected]). I'm one of those people who are still using Yahoo :roll: and have been for years. I'm starting to get the feeling that this could be putting people off at times though and to be honest I don't blame them.

Been meaning to sort this out for years especially since I own the .com of my full name but I've always been a bit afraid of messing something up. Yahoo works fine for me so I never bothered changing but I think it's finally time to use my own domain. Also, is there an easy way of accessing your emails on your phone while using your own domain?

Cheers.

 

[DomainPortfolio.ukDomainPortfolio.uk is verified member.]

I'm the same, Jamie, always used Yahoo for years, I have set up some email addresses on some of my domains, and I guess it would be the same to access them on a mobile phone as it is on a computer, to get to them you just go to xxxxx.co.uk/webmail and login there.

 

[EdwinEdwin is verified member.]

Probably one of the easiest ways of doing it would be to use Google Apps for Business
http://www.google.com/intx/en_uk/enterprise/apps/business/pricing.html

That way, you can also log into Gmail and get your email, which is something you should be able to do very easily on your phone.

 

[MurrayMurray is verified member.]

Looks more professional using your own email I have to say.

I use murray**at**murraydomains.co.uk to reply to any domain inquiries.

It runs off roundcube which I think is used quite a lot.

I have it linked up to my iphone, you just have to enter a bit of information you will find from your host.

 

[Retired_Member38]

Google Apps for Business gets another vote here. Its really easy to use and setup. Plus if you have various staff members you can easily keep an eye over what they're doing.

And with everything being web based, if you fire someone / they quit / they're off sick for a week and you need their work / a laptop gets left on a bus etc etc its not a disaster, everything is there and online.

We don't use anything at all outside of the email... but for £33/year per user its easily worth the money.

 

[Jamie101]

Thanks everyone.

Decided to set up jamie at jamiefarrelly.com and it looks like roundcube works straight away with it thanks to hostgator. Now to set it up on my phone. Will probably still use my Yahoo one a good bit though. Thanks again.

 

[Jamie101]

If your have a firstnamesurname.tld domain name I think it looks better to just use your initials before the @.


(from iPhone)

Was just thinking about that actually. Might as well get all this sorted before I start emailing people!

I was thinking either [email protected] or [email protected]

 

[jonbyrne]

I use [email protected] and have seen people use mail@ and think both work well.

 

[EdwinEdwin is verified member.]

How about something like writetome@ or contactme@?

Just thinking out loud here, but something like a couple of letters before the "@" is pretty much bound to be a spam magnet, isn't it, given that spammers target thousands of "common" email addresses?

 

[Jamie101]

Thanks everyone.

I can't decide if [email protected] is the best or not. I see why it looks good, but at the same time I think some people could see jf@ and then think spam straight away like Edwin said. It's actually a tough one to decide.

I kind of like [email protected] the more I think about it.

 

[Jamie101]

Decided to use contact@ mydomain.com in the end.

Hopefully it'll help me a bit. Should've done this years ago, only takes a few minutes!

 

[Jamie101]

I'm happy for you. Anything else you'd like help making a decision about whilst we're talking?


(from iPhone)

Can you help me decide if I should spend loads of time and money trying to buy .org.uk's and .me.uk's that are older than the .co.uk version?

Not really, thanks for the help

 

[SkinnerSkinner is verified member.]

I don't know about yahoo but with gmail you can set your own domains to work with gmail, this works for me for the most part, gmail auto checks all my pop3 boxes and archives me my mail.

edit: I use mail@ and I have a personal priority one which sends a text to me also.

 

[lee]

I would use jf as the email, contact looks too corporate and not at all friendly.

I use [email protected]. I cannot believe that anyone uses Yahoo for email :mrgreen: - its a surprise that anyone ever bothers to email you back at all! - If you are selling or buying anything on line, you simply have to use your own domain, anything else will just not be taken seriously at all.

 

[lee]

Ive suffered in the past from using a crap free address, emails being unanswered all over the place.

However, if you send the same email a week later from your own domain, bingo, you get a response.

I also pretend to be a women 99% of the time in my dealings online but thats another story.

 

[Jamie101]

I would use jf as the email, contact looks too corporate and not at all friendly.

I use [email protected]. I cannot believe that anyone uses Yahoo for email :mrgreen: - its a surprise that anyone ever bothers to email you back at all! - If you are selling or buying anything on line, you simply have to use your own domain, anything else will just not be taken seriously at all.

Wish I owned farrelly.com so I could do that

And haha yeah I see what you mean but it doesn't seem to have put too many people off. I've been using my email address for years buying/selling sites, writing content for people etc.

 

[Jamie101]

Have you asked about buying it?


(from iPhone)

Actually haven't, but maybe I should. I wouldn't say it's a hugely popular name anyway so maybe it is worth asking about.

Then again I probably should spend my money elsewhere.

 

[The Ferryman]

farrelly.org.uk is available to reg
Regards
Bruce

 

[AndyMarsden]

farrel.ly is FTR

 

[Jamie101]

Cheers guys.

Wouldn't really be interested in the .org.uk but the .ly is kind of cool in a way actually. Don't think I could justify around $120 a year though for it.